If there was a mentor-mentee relationship, and Ms. Kaplan is now ON RECORD denying it, that's an easy case for overturning the case.
Perhaps the mentor-mentee relationship was informal, but without a written agreement. The left is really good with weasel words.
Boy now is the time for an old newspaper or magazine article to appear showing the Kaplans canoodling or something like that to stir this sh*t storm up!!
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.