Former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard has asked for a new trial, contending, among other claims, that the state presented faulty expert testimony about the ethics law.

Baxley claims that Sumner gave the jury an overly broad definition of "principal" in the law and incorrectly defined the "friendship exception" in the law.

The jury convicted Hubbard, among other charges, of receiving a total of $600,000 in investments from four business executives defined as principals under the law. Three of those executives testified that they were Hubbard's friends.

In a 39-page motion filed in Lee County Circuit Court on Friday, Baxley also claims that the investments were legal because they were a "full value exchange," with the four executives paying the same amount for the same equity as other investors in Craftmaster Printers, a company Hubbard co-owned.

The motion seeks acquittal, dismissal of the charges or a new trial.

The state, meanwhile, asked the court to reconsider its decision denying its request to order Hubbard to pay $1.1 million in restitution.

That's the total amount of investments and contract payments Hubbard and his companies received under the charges for which he was found guilty.

Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker, who presided over the trial and sentenced Hubbard, did not order him to pay restitution the state had requested.

During the sentencing hearing, Walker asked prosecutors if they could cite a similar case under which the state was awarded restitution as a crime victim.

Prosecutors did not at that time.

In a 12-page motion filed Friday, Deputy Attorney General Michael Duffy cited cases in other states and also the case of former Rep. Greg Wren of Montgomery.

Wren pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor ethics charge in 2014 and paid $24,000 in court-ordered restitution to the state under the plea deal.

Wren's case resulted from the same Lee County special grand jury investigation that led to Hubbard's conviction.

A Lee County jury convicted Hubbard of 12 felony ethics charges, removing him from office. Walker sentenced him to four years in prison, eight years on probation and fined him $210,000.

Hubbard is out on bond.

Hubbard has also asked for an investigation into an allegation of possible juror misconduct.

Prosecutors have objected to that request.