Donald Trump’s legal team has requested formally a new trial in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case. The case revolves around compensatory and penal awards totaling $83 million, awarded to Carroll.
E Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her in a department store dressing room during the mid-1990s.
‘The awarded sum is excessive and should be reduced significantly’, said Alina Habba. The argument posits that damages could be scaled down to no more than $36.6 million, particularly if the compensatory component for restoring Carroll’s reputation, is also diminished, said Alina Habba, Trump’s legal counsel
Trump’s lawyers cite relevant case law to support their stance. The legal team further resists that a new trial is warranted due to excluded proof.
They assert, “This Court’s decision to limit the scope of President Trump’s testimony certainly influenced the jury’s verdict, and thus a new trial is warranted.”
On this matter, the 45th US president’s testimony was stricken from the record by Judge Lewis Kaplan, claims the former president’s legal team.
The counsel’s statement read, “President Trump’s testimony about his state of mind is the most relevant and probative evidence on the issue of common-law malice, and he was uniquely positioned to address it.”
“By erroneously foreclosing any such testimony – and erroneously striking the one sentence of President Trump’s testimony on this point – the Court all but assured that the jury would make a baseless punitive damages award.”
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