Trump 'deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina with his fingers,' Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote, while denying the former president a new trial.
Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, Carroll testified during the trial. She said that Trump digitally penetrated her, “which was extremely painful,” and “then he inserted his penis.”because New York passed a law instituting a one-yearthe statute of limitation had expired.ompensatory damages was “excessive” because the jury didn’t find that Carroll was raped by Trump, only groped. “While Mr.
“Rape” is a narrow part of penal law in the state that applies to forcible vaginal penetration only by a penis. A s Kaplan wrote, penetration by the fingers, which the jury agreed happened to Carroll, is called sexual abuse in New York.“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’” Kaplan wrote. “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.
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