Trump rape defamation trial jury will get directions from choose
A display shows a former U.S. president Donald Trump’s video deposition in courtroom throughout a civil trial the place former Elle journal recommendation columnist E. Jean Carroll accuses the previous U.S. president in a civil lawsuit of raping her in a division retailer dressing room within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, and of defamation, in New York, U.S., Could 4, 2023 on this courtroom sketch.
Jane Rosenberg | Reuters
A federal choose on Tuesday gave jurors their ultimate directions earlier than they have been set to start deliberating on the civil trial the place former President Donald Trump is accused of raping and defaming the author E. Jean Carroll.
Decide Lewis Kaplan additionally gave the jury the decision type it’ll use in the course of the deliberations in U.S. District Courtroom in Manhattan. If jurors decide that Carroll proved both of her claims, they’ll resolve whether or not to award her financial damages.
Carroll, 79, alleges in a lawsuit that Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman division retailer within the mid-Nineteen Nineties. She additionally claims he defamed her final fall when he mentioned she had made up the account. Trump referred to as the allegations “a whole con job,” and mentioned that she was not his “kind.”
Trump, who leads early polls for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, didn’t testify in the course of the trial.
However parts of his deposition taken final fall by Carroll’s lawyer have been performed for jurors in the course of the trial, and through closing arguments on Monday.
Carroll took the witness stand. So did two girls who testified she had advised them proper after the alleged incident that Trump had raped her.
Two different girls testified that Trump had kissed and groped them with out their consent in incidents that occurred years aside.
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