The Federal Court of Appeal will not reconsider the loss of $ 5 million from Trump against E. Jean Carroll
President Donald Trump failed to persuade a federal court of appeal to reconsider the $ 5 million verdict won by E. Jean Carroll after a jury found that he had sexually abused and defamed the former magazine columnist in the 1990s.
During a vote of 8-2, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals of the US in Manhattan left its decision of December 30 intact by a panel of three judges to maintain the jury price.
Carroll, now 81 years old, accused Trump of having attacked him around 1996 in a wardrobe in Bergdorf Goodman Department Store in Manhattan, and of defaming it in a social post of truth in October 2022 by refusing its claim as Canuular.
In her denial, who repeated a similar denial in June 2019, Trump said that the former columnist was “not my type” and invented the demand for rape to promote her memoirs.
The jurors decided in May 2023 that Trump had sexually assaulted Carroll and defamed it by lying. They did not find that Trump violated Carroll, as she had claimed.
The president, who will be 79 years old on Saturday, asks the court of appeal separately to throw a verdict of $ 83 million in January 2024 for having diffammed Carroll and damaged his reputation when the Republican refused his request for rape for the first time.
The oral arguments are scheduled for June 24. Another appeal from the $ 5 million verdict would go to the United States Supreme Court.
A spokesperson for Trump lawyers said in a statement that the Americans “demand an immediate end to the political armament of our judicial system and a rapid dismissal of all hunts with witches, including the carroll cannular funded by the Democrats, who will continue to be on appeal.”
The $ 5 million verdict included $ 2.98 million for defamation and $ 2.02 million for sexual assault.
Carroll is “very satisfied” on Friday’s order, said his lawyer Roberta Kaplan in a statement. “Although President Trump continues to try all possible maneuvers to challenge the conclusions of two distinct juries, these efforts have failed.”
Dissent disputes evidence decisions
The Steven Menashi and Michael Park circuit judges, both appointed by Trump, are dissidents of the order.
Menashi wrote that evidence in the case “makes President Trump more likely thought that the trial had been concocted by his political opposition – and therefore that he was not talking about maliciousness.”
The judge also said that the panel also incorrectly authorized the testimony of his “marked” trial on Trump’s alleged trial and error Jessica Leeds in a plane in the late 1970s.
By looking for a review, Trump argued that the trial judge made an error by allowing jurors to review a “access Hollywood” video of 2005 to boast of his sexual prowess.
He also challenged a “stack” of inflammatory evidence that he mistreated Leeds and the former writer of People Natasha Stoynoff, who accused Trump of embracing him in his field Mar-A-Lago in 2005.
Trump denied the statements of Leeds and Stoynoff.
By seeking to cancel the verdict of $ 83.3 million, Trump argued that the Supreme Court’s decision last July providing him with substantial criminal immunity protects him from the responsibility of the CARROLL Civil affair.
The verdict included $ 18.3 million in damages for emotional and reputation damage and $ 65 million in punitive damages.
