DETROIT -- Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was once again denied an appeal to be released from prison, according to WXYZ Detroit. Kilpatrick is currently serving as 28-year sentence in prison after he was convicted in 2013 on 24 felonies related to public corruption, including racketeering, bribery and extortion. He is not scheduled to be released from prison until 2037.

Kilpatrick’s lawyers argued that their client was not given a fair trial because the judge in the case, Judge Nancy Edmunds had a bias due to her personal and professional relationship with one of Kilpatrick’s former lawyers. The accusation was Kilpatrick’s former lawyer James Thomas received a card from Judge Edmunds for his wedding and thus Edmunds should not have been involved in the case.

The appeals court denied the motion, saying “Because merely sending a wedding card is not ‘of a specifically intimate degree to induce a reasonable person with knowledge of all the facts to conclude that [the judge’s] impartiality could be reasonably questioned,’ this claim does not deserve encouragement to proceed further.”

Kilpatrick has tried several times to be released from prison or to have his sentenced shortened. In June he asked President Trump to commute his sentence. Two months later, Kilpatrick’s son also sent a plea to President Trump to release his father, but Trump has not responded to either request.