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\n\tThe security guard who failed to convince a jury<\/a> Cardi B<\/a> assaulted her outside a Beverly Hills doctor\u2019s office is asking for a new trial \u2013 but Cardi\u2019s lawyers are blasting the request as \u201cabsurd\u201d and \u201centirely frivolous.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn a withering response filed late Wednesday, lawyers for the \u201cOutside\u201d rapper wrote that Ellis \u201cfails to establish any permitted grounds\u201d for a new trial in her motion filed Oct. 31. They said her request was based on \u201cpatently false\u201d allegations ranging from \u201cgratuitous\u201d to \u201ccomplete fiction.\u201d Urging the court to reject it, they argued \u201cspeculation, knowingly false statements, and inaction are not grounds for a new trial.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tEllis\u2019 lawyer, Ron Rosen Janfaza, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. In his motion, he claimed his client deserves a new trial due to alleged errors by the court and the claim that jurors might have been present outside the courthouse on Sept. 2 when a gossip blogger shouted questions at Cardi regarding her current relationship and pregnancy, and she responded by tossing a pen at the ground in apparent frustration. The incident was caught on video.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cPlaintiff requests additional time to investigate this further. Jurors would be intimidated if they had viewed this type of conduct,\u201d Rosen Janfaza wrote. In their opposition filed Wednesday, Cardi\u2019s lawyers argued Ellis is relying on hearsay, and either way, the jury was instructed multiple times that they should consider only evidence presented at the trial. The lawyers, Peter Anderson and Lisa F. Moore, said Ellis also failed to raise any concerns about the exchange at the time.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIf Mr. Rosen Janfaza believed a juror might have been outside the courthouse and standing with the press, he could have asked that the court instruct them yet again to consider only the evidence admitted at trial. Or Mr. Rosen Janfaza could have asked that the court question the jurors about what they saw or heard during the lunch break. He did neither, presumably because there was no reason to think any jurors were outside the courthouse at the time, let alone standing nearby,\u201d Cardi\u2019s lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n