Legal analysts, pundits sound alarm on Trump verdict, suggest there's room for appeal: 'Contorted the law'

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Some legal analysts are sounding the alarm on former President Trump's guilty verdict and have warned that the presumptive GOP nominee might have a chance of successfully appealing the Manhattan criminal case.

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig has criticized the New York criminal case against Trump as an "unjustified mess" and argued prosecutors "contorted the law" to get the former president.

"Prosecutors got their man, for now at least — but they also contorted the law in an unprecedented manner in their quest to snare their prey," Honig wrote in a piece for New York magazine published Friday.

A New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records on Thursday in a case brought against him by Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

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"Plenty of prosecutors have won plenty of convictions in cases that shouldn’t have been brought in the first place," Honig argued. "'But they won' is no defense to a strained, convoluted reach unless the goal is to 'win,' now, by any means necessary and worry about the credibility of the case and the fallout later."

CNN legal correspondent Paula Reid said Sunday that while any appeals process was unlikely to play out before the election, "there are some legitimate questions to be appealed