Posted on 05/09/2023 12:18:04 PM PDT by Morgana
A jury has found that Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll.
The panel of six men and three women also found that Trump injured advice columnist Carroll in a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman dressing room and defamed her, ordering the former President to pay her $5million in damages.
Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct or assault by more than two dozen women, but this has so far been the only case to end up before a jury.
Carroll, 79, sued for battery under the Adult Survivors Act, a law passed in New York that allowed a one year window for sexual assault claims normally outside of the statute of limitations.
Her claim for defamation was based on statements made by Trump, 76, when he was President and posts to Truth Social, his own social network in which he called her a liar.
Over two weeks the jury heard emotional testimony from three accusers and two of Carroll's friends, among other witnesses, while Trump himself was a no show.
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Hmmm. Well, the statute of limitation issue is in the NewYork criminal case, not this civil case. Beyond the fact that you’re talking about the wrong case, please remember what I said: appeals are not a mulligan, a do over in front of a different court. The judgment is presumed to be correct, and if you didn’t show up to contradict the testimony, you essentially have to show there was NO evidence to support the judgment. Not that the evidence was weak, or that it shouldn’t have been believed , but that NO evidence existed. I agree the plaintiff is a nut, and probably a liar, but her testimony, believed by the jury, is all that’s required to support the judgment. I know it’s not what you and some of the others want to hear, but I’ve been a lawyer for more than 30 years. What I’ve outlined is what the law provides for, period.
Trump is running for President. It doesn’t matter what the courts say. The country is done. If Trump can someone become President again he has an outside chance on rolling things back some. His calculus is all about becoming President (even if hes convicted 100 times for 100 different reasons). If he loses both he and his countrymen are screwed no matter what. Trump has basically given up his whole life for his country. He had it made before 2015
Fine. Whatever. Nice fantasy. But the pendency of the appeal does not stop the collection of the judgment. He can ask for a stay, but the court doesn’t have to grant it and, if it does, it will probably require a bond as in the Oberlin College case
This decision is legally unsustainable and will eventually be overturned on appeal. While it is legal to. extend a time frame for statutory deadline for particular statute of limitation, that extension must occur BEFORE the statuette of limitation period for that particular limitation has run out. For example, if there is a two year statute of limitation on bringing charges for jay walking, a state can lawfully extend the statue of limitation person to 5 years. Any person who has jay walked and is still within the time frame of the original 2 year statuette of limitations at the time the new 5 year limitation period goes into effect is now subject to the 5 year period going forward . However, any individual who jaywalked 2 years plus one day and is no longer subject to charges due to the 2 year statuette of limitations is also not subject to the extension of the statuette of limitations to 5 years. There are many legal reasons for this not the least of which is the explicit constitutional prohibition on ex post facto laws.
You're CORRECT.. however, something tells me this is going to BACKFIRE on the LEFT.
I predict Trump will, in the end, once again PREVAIL.
I’m still amazed at how many Freepers still don’t get it. The Cabal is going to try and get Trump off the political stage at all costs. He could have vehemently denied the charges and took the stand in his own defense, and that NY jury would of still found him guilty.
And the hatred is the most inexplicable. He was da man. He owns some of the New York Skyline to this day, and even his minor projects, like 40 Wall Street, are things of beauty, and he renovated the skating rink, and his career is legendary. He was everybody’s pal until he dared to run against Hitlery as a Republican, and win, preventing her coronation.
This is the same chick thrown off by Anderson Cooper for saying that rape is sexy. Nuts that anyone on a jury would believe here.
So don’t ever hire a lawyer from Stanford or New York.
Having sued the Rockefeller real estate empire once, during my days as a paralegal, they will have the Devil’s own time collecting the judgment. There was such a maze of corporations and subsidiaries and shell companies, that we thought we sued everyone entity involved, but—SHAZAM!—we forgot one, the only one that had responsibility for the building in question apparently, and the court dismissed the PI complaint on that basis.
I doubt Trump’s personal liability is just wandering around mid-town like a babe in the woods, waiting to be scooped up and eaten by any psycho who gets a judgment against him. His old attorney Roy Cohn was a vicious SOB and a flaming homo, but also a brilliant lawyer. There are similar layers of corporate prestidigitation around all his assets as there were around the Rockefellers’ when my office sued them. No doubt.
“Trump was horrible on that tape! Good Lord! This care was so easy and DJT blew it! Ugh!”
He even made inappropriate comments about the female attorney questioning him.
Nope a civil case does not involve conviction of anything
Trump saying she wasn’t his type but thinking she was Marla Maples in the photo they showed him sure didn’t help.
“He is wrong. For one thing, he is not destroyed,”
We were discussing the trial.
Trump put on no defense. The art of the deal maker should have used his charm and skills to close the jury.
Reversible error...?
stay tuned
Isn’t it true that hookers take money for sex?
five million... wow
... in a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman dressing room.?
I’m not following you. Was this suit not originated long after the SOL, on the basis of the special “Adult Survivors Act?” And that had a one year deadline, by which time she filed.
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