On Monday, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected a motion for a mistrial in E. Jean Carroll’s civil rape case against former President Donald Trump.
Trump’s legal team argued in a letter filed Monday morning in Manhattan federal court, that a mistrial should be granted “based upon pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings by the Court,” with attorney Joe Tacopina claiming that the “Court has mischaracterized the facts of this case to the jury.”
“Here, despite the fact trial testimony has been underway for only two days, the proceedings are already replete with numerous explains of Defendant’s unfair treatment by the Court, most of which has been witnessed by the Jury,” the letter said.
But the judge swiftly smacked down the request and the trial will proceed as scheduled.
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Carroll, 79, has accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York City in the 1990s. Carroll, a longtime columnist for Elle magazine, is suing for battery and defamation, claiming that Trump defamed her when he denied the allegations.
“I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen,” Carroll began her testimony, according to the report. “He lied and shattered my reputation, and I’m here to try and get my life back.”
Judge Kaplan began the day by denying Trump's motion for a mistrial, filed this morning
>>Read the full motion here via @CourthouseNews: https://t.co/OQZQUmgLRp pic.twitter.com/qWmrFn41z4
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