“The motion made no sense,” Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote.
Trump attorney Alina Habba said a mistrial was in order because E. Jean Carroll was confessing that she destroyed evidence that should have been preserved for trial. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesNEW YORK — The federal judge who presided over the jury trial that resulted in an $83 million award to writer E. Jean Carroll for her defamation claims against former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his rejection of his lawyer’s unusual midtrial mistrial request was not a close call.
“The motion made no sense,” Kaplan wrote, explaining that Habba had known for more than a year that Carroll had said that she deleted some emails making death threats against her and yet waited until trial to act surprised and request a mistrial. “Granting a mistrial would have been entirely pointless.”
The $83.3 million award by the jury two weeks ago came over statements Trump made while he was president. In statements to the media, Trump denied he had ever sexually assaulted Carroll, claimed he didn’t know her and said she was making up her claims to sell a newly published memoir and perhaps to hurt him politically.
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