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Trump Lawyer Backs off Idea That E. Jean Carroll Judge Had Conflict
U.S. News & World Report. ^ | Jan. 30, 2024, at 12:17 p.m. | By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: appeal; carroll; conflictofinterest; jonathanstempel; luccohen; nevertrumpers; tds; titsmcgee; trump
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To: Ge0ffrey

Useless News and World Distort


41 posted on 01/31/2024 8:52:45 AM PST by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

The judge was going to SUE HABA!


42 posted on 01/31/2024 8:54:16 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: 1Old Pro

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.


43 posted on 01/31/2024 8:54:37 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

When are the Biden family going to be charged with RICO?


44 posted on 01/31/2024 8:55:05 AM PST by Leep (I've got a virus twice in one month. Should i lock myself down for 2 yrs. Just to be safe?)
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To: Liz

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?


45 posted on 01/31/2024 8:58:12 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Bob434
Trump,is shopping for new lawyers- he made ,the announcement today I guess

What else is new?

46 posted on 01/31/2024 9:07:25 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024 )
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To: Leaning Right
A judge who worked at the same law firm as an attorney representing a party in a case before him should recuse himself from the case. Right. And it doesn’t matter if it was 30 days ago or 30 years ago. Judges are supposed to be independent, and impartial. They are supposed to have no connections to either party. Oh, well. We all know that fairness plays no part in Biden’s America.

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.

47 posted on 01/31/2024 9:15:06 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024 )
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To: mewzilla
now anyone stealing a kiss can be charged with rape.

How about sniffing their hair?

48 posted on 01/31/2024 9:28:14 AM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Bob434
Trump,is shopping for new lawyers

Has he paid the old ones yet?
49 posted on 01/31/2024 9:33:51 AM PST by Reynoldo (BurnLootMurder)
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To: Jane Long

Didnt see that.


50 posted on 01/31/2024 9:34:10 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give strength.)
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To: thegagline

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.


51 posted on 01/31/2024 9:38:25 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

He only hires the best people. Don’t you know that?


52 posted on 01/31/2024 9:38:44 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: Alvin Diogenes

Kind of a bad quality in a chief executive, don’t you think?


53 posted on 01/31/2024 9:39:55 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: Jane Long

The judge deemed it a sexual assault; it was called digital penetration.


54 posted on 01/31/2024 9:41:07 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Right up there with ‘I will release the Kraken’.


55 posted on 01/31/2024 9:42:44 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

“Trust, but verify.”

Ronald Reagan


56 posted on 01/31/2024 9:44:01 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Have any of you not locked a dressing room door when using a dressing room?


57 posted on 01/31/2024 9:46:24 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Liz
Here is where I saw that ...

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.....

58 posted on 01/31/2024 9:47:11 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Jane Long

That is a lulu.......he should have been tossed off the case long ago.


59 posted on 01/31/2024 9:51:35 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give strength.)
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To: Liz

Agree.

Those defending this hack are lulu’s too 😉


60 posted on 01/31/2024 9:52:42 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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