Judge issues scathing rebuke of Trump's request for new trial

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'The jury in this case did not 'reach a seriously erroneous result,'' U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote before adding, using Trump's own words, that the verdict was not 'a miscarriage of justice.'

A jury in May found that Trump was liable for sexually abusing the formerin 2022 by making comments such as that the abuse didn't happen because Carroll"wasn't my type." Trump was not found liable over accusations that he raped Carroll, but the jury ruled that Trump must pay Carroll $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages over sexual battery and defamation claims.

However, in a 59-page decision filed on Wednesday, Kaplan issued a scathing rebuke when he rejected Trump's request for a new trial.

 

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