A federal court judge denies former President Trump's bid for a new trial on E. Jean Carroll's civil sexual assault and defamation claims against him.
centered on the nine-member jury's finding in May that Carroll, 79, had not proven"by a preponderance of the evidence" that Trump had raped her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. The jury did find Trump liable on another element of Carroll's battery claim: sexual abuse.
Kaplan called that argument"frivolous" because there was"no evidence whatever that Mr. Trump groped Ms. Carroll’s breasts, through her clothing or otherwise." "The jury’s finding of sexual abuse therefore necessarily implies that it found that Mr. Trump forcibly penetrated her," and the damages are therefore not excessive, the judge wrote.Carroll attorney Roberta Kaplan said in a statement that her client "looks forward to receiving the $5 million in damages that the jury awarded her."
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