Posted on 01/31/2024 7:59:06 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
A lawyer for Donald Trump on Tuesday backed off her suggestion that the judge who oversaw E. Jean Carroll's two successful civil defamation trials against the former U.S. president might have had a conflict of interest.
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, Trump's lawyer Alina Habba said she was satisfied that the judge and Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan, who is not related, did not have a "mentor-mentee relationship" when they worked at the same law firm three decades ago....
"The point of my January 29 letter was to verify whether the information contained in the New York Post article is accurate," she wrote. "Since Ms. Kaplan has now denied that there was ever a mentor-mentee relationship between herself and Your Honor, this issue has seemingly been resolved."
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Useless News and World Distort
The judge was going to SUE HABA!
Incorrect. This is a civil case, not a criminal case, thereby constraining my options for attacking a verdict after the fact.
An appeal can only proceed on preserved errors. In order to preserve an error, the attorney needs to make an objection. If the attorney withdraws the objection (as is the case here), the error is no longer preserved.
Further, because it is a civil case, any post-trial, pre-appellate, motion to overturn the verdict on newly discovered evidence would go to the same judge that heard the case at trial. Even if it didn’t, any judge would take a dim view of an argument that Habba simply accepted the denial at face value back when the issue was first brought to her attention, rather than engage in due diligence to confirm the facts in the Ms. Kaplan’s letter.
Again, she is not doing Trump any favors whatsoever.
When are the Biden family going to be charged with RICO?
I thought I’d read, somewhere, that this Judge wrote, on his final decision, that Pres Trump did, in fact, rape this crazy loon, Carroll.
It was a tweet, so...it could’ve been misinformation.
Have you heard about this?
What else is new?
It is very difficult to recuse a judge. The legal community is somewhat incestuous. For example, judges aren't conflicted out due to lawyers appearing before them who contributed to their election campaigns. I literally worked on a Judge's campaign responding to political, union, and business groups surveys which led to endorsements and donations and the Judge didn't recuse herself when I appeared before her.
The law firm in question, Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison currently has over a thousand attorneys. In that Plaintiff's counsel may have worked with the Judge over 30 years ago probably isn't enough to conflict out the Judge.
How about sniffing their hair?
Didnt see that.
Yeah, it’s probably not. Look at all the DoJ lawyers who go on to become federal judges. That doesn’t mean they can’t hear cases involving DoJ, just not cases that their former employer was working on while they were there.
He only hires the best people. Don’t you know that?
Kind of a bad quality in a chief executive, don’t you think?
The judge deemed it a sexual assault; it was called digital penetration.
Right up there with ‘I will release the Kraken’.
“Trust, but verify.”
Ronald Reagan
Have any of you not locked a dressing room door when using a dressing room?
Judge Kaplan should be impeached and disbarred.
Everyone must understand what Kaplan did to Trump.
Kaplan, in a foot note, concludes AS A MATTER OF FACT that Trump “raped” E. Jean Carroll.
Despite the jury LITERALLY coming to the opposite finding.
He then granted SUMMARY… pic.twitter.com/bOfa1cguAl— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) January 30, 2024
Summary photos at link. I believe photo 2 explains.....
That is a lulu.......he should have been tossed off the case long ago.
Agree.
Those defending this hack are lulu’s too 😉
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