Reversible error...?
Sorry grey_whiskers... I don’t know which of my posts you’re replying to.
Do you mean that the instructions from the judge would be a “reversible error” and grounds for appeal?
I imagine that’s a possibility. I didn’t hear the judge’s full instructions (just what some here have said).
If PDJT’s lawyers aren’t looking into it, I’d want to know why they’re not looking into it.
Judge Kaplan not only had his thumb on the scales of Justice for E. Jean Carroll and against Donald Trump, he apparently moved his bench to the plaintiff’s table! He sustained objection the plaintiff did not make on perfectly legitimate lines of questioning and admonished and ‘schooled’ the defense attorneys multiple times in front of the jury on how to cross examine witnesses. Then he asked question of the witnesses FOR the plaintiff’s attorney to ‘fix’ errors they’d made in the judge’s mind in their testimony. He interrupted the defense attorney when they were making cogent points tying E. Jean up in logical knots, and stopping them, forcing them to move on to something else before the illogicality was complete. The judge ANSWERED questions for the witnesses numerous times.
There was so much judicial error and bias that Trump’s attorneys requested a mistrial halfway through the plaintiff’s case, citing seven egregious examples of judicial misconduct. Kaplan denied it and doubled down on his behavior.