You had too much wine --- maybe you should have gone to bed
There was no jury. It was a bench trial. That was because his lawyers forgot to request a jury trial
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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E. JEAN CARROLL,
Plaintiff,
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DONALD J. TRUMP,
Defendant.
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LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.
Donald J. Trump is accused in this and a second very closely related civil case of
having raped E. Jean Carroll in the mid 1990s and having defamed her in public statements in
response to her rape accusation against him. He has denied the rape charge and disputes whether his
statements are actionable.
The trial of this case will begin on April 25, 2023.1 On March 11, 2023, the Court
directed the parties to file any objections to trying the case before an anonymous jury.
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A New York jury reached a quick verdict awarding E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in damages in her suit that former President Donald Trump defamed he
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Read the full jury verdict form from the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial
A federal jury on Tuesday found that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, a writer who accused the former president of attacking her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.
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New York law gave jurors three types of battery to consider in the Trump case.
A federal judge presiding over the lawsuit against the former president walked jurors through each variety of wrongdoing, explaining their precise definitions.
