Judge rejects lawyers’ request that jurors be told ‘logistical burdens on New York City’ the reason for possible Trump no-show
In a letter to federal judge Lewis A Kaplan on Wednesday, Tacopina said jurors should be told: “While no litigant is required to appear at a civil trial, the absence of the defendant in this matter, by design, avoids the logistical burdens that his presence, as the former president, would cause the courthouse and“Accordingly, his presence is excused unless and until he is called by either party to testify.
The next day, Kaplan responded: “The decision whether to attend or testify is [Trump’s] alone to make.”, has said she does not intend to call him, Kaplan said: “There is nothing for the court to excuse.” Kaplan also said he did not accept Trump’s claim about “alleged burdens on the courthouse or the city”, because he was confident the US Secret Service – which protects all former presidents – and the US Marshals Service, in charge of federal courthouse security, would cope.
Trump, Kaplan said, “will speak at a campaign event in New Hampshire on 27 April, the third day of the scheduled trial in this case. If the Secret Service can protect him at that event, certainly the Secret Service, the Marshals Service, and the city of New York can see to his security in this very secure federal courthouse.”
The case concerns an alleged rape in the changing rooms of a New York department store in the mid-1990s, a claim Carroll
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