Clinton Judge Rejects Trump’s Request For New Trial in E. Jean Carroll Case
Judge Lewis Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, denied President Trump’s request for a new trial in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case.
CNN reported:
A federal judge has denied Donald Trump’s request for a new trial in the E. Jean Carroll case – finding the jury who found that the former president sexually abused and defamed Carroll did not reach a “seriously erroneous result.”
“The jury in this case did not reach ‘a seriously erroneous result,” Judge Lewis Kaplan said. “Its verdict is not ‘a miscarriage of justice.’”
Trump had asked for the new trial after the jury awarded magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages.
“Now that the court has denied Trump’s motion for a new trial or to decrease the amount of the verdict,
