Trump asks judge to cut the $83.3 million penalty in E. Jean Carroll case or grant him a new trial
(CNN) In a longshot bid, former President Donald Trump is asking the judge overseeing E. Jean Carrolls defamation case against him to significantly reduce the $83.3 million jury award or grant a new trial.
Trump argued that Judge Lewis Kaplan wrongly prohibited him from defending himself during his brief testimony and that warrants a new trial.
In court filings Tuesday, Trumps lawyers said Kaplan erred when he stopped Trump from testifying about his own state of mind and when he gave an erroneous jury instruction on the definition of common-law malice. Trumps lawyers said the jury should have been told they needed to find that it was Trumps sole, exclusive desire to harm Carroll.
This Courts erroneous decision to dramatically limit the scope of President Trumps testimony almost certainly influenced the jurys verdict, and thus a new trial is warranted, Trumps lawyers wrote.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-asks-judge-cut-83-201904545.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00
C_U_L8R
(45,028 posts)Don't you have anything better to do? Your estate is going to go on the block, and it's all your fault.
Best_man23
(4,914 posts)Wish in one hand, hold your diaper in the other, let's see which one fills first.
Loser.
no_hypocrisy
(46,250 posts)Judge Kaplan refused to allow Trump to use his trial courtroom to make a political speech. Which was the right call.
3Hotdogs
(12,445 posts)Chainfire
(17,678 posts)shit go away, along with all of his other enemies. Trump's "state of mind" was what it has always been; cheat, lie and steal in the pursuit of the almighty dollar. That is just good business, not a crime...