I’m having a hard time sympathizing with either. Given the make up of any Bronx jury, she is surely favored, but wouldn’t he have an appeal to a state court??? Seems if the prosecutors aren’t even sure they will file suit, her case is not that strong. And I “get” that that would be irrelevant to a Bronx jur.
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The civil case is filed in NY State Supreme Court. If DSK is foolish enough to not settle & goes to trial and he loses , he can appeal it to the Appellate Division. Most likely DSK will try to get it out of the Bronx, and into Federal Court on the grounds he is a foreign national.