Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks throughout a press convention at Trump Tower in New York Metropolis, U.S., September 6, 2024.
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A federal appeals court docket in New York on Thursday upheld a civil jury verdict that discovered President Donald Trump responsible for sexually abusing and defaming the author E. Jean Carroll, and which ordered him to pay her $5 million in damages.
A 3-judge appeals panel in its unanimous ruling stated it concluded that Trump “had not demonstrated that the district court docket” choose who presided over his trial “erred in any of the challenged rulings.”
“Additional, he has not carried his burden to point out that any claimed error or mixture of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a brand new trial,” wrote the panel the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court docket of Appeals.
Trump was interesting a Might 2023 verdict by a jury in Manhattan federal court docket.
That jury discovered him responsible for sexually abusing Carroll in a New York Metropolis division retailer within the Nineties, and for defaming her in late 2022 when he denied her allegation. Trump was not president on the time he made the statements that led to the defamation verdict in that case.
Lawyer John Sauer argues for Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump on the rostrum the place he’s asking a federal appeals court docket to overturn a $5 million jury verdict discovering him responsible for sexually assaulting and defaming author E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of raping her practically three many years in the past, in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 6, 2024, on this courtroom sketch.
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A second jury in the identical courthouse in January 2024 discovered Trump civilly responsible for defaming Carroll in statements he made in June 2019, when he was president, after she first went public along with her declare that he had raped her on the Bergdorf Goodman retailer.
The jury in that second case ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million in damages. Trump is interesting that verdict.
Author E. Jean Carroll arrives on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals, the place former U.S. President Donald Trump will arrive to ask a federal appeals court docket to overturn a $5 million jury verdict discovering him responsible for sexually assaulting and defaming her, who accused Trump of raping her practically three many years in the past, in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 6, 2024.
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