Trump Demands New Trial In Carroll Defamation Case

Courthouse News reports:

Former president Donald Trump on Tuesday asked a federal judge for a new trial in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit against him, claiming the trial’s outcome was “infected” by the judge’s errors. Following a trial in the Southern District of New York, a nine-person jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages.

According to Trump, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan erroneously excluded the former president’s testimony from trial and provided flawed jury instructions on the definition of common-law malice. Specifically, Trump criticized his not being allowed to testify about his state of mind when he denied Carroll’s statements.

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This is just yet another delay tactic because he can’t scrounge up the cash to pay the bond in order to appeal.