Donald Trump files for retrial in E Jean Carroll defamation case

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Just hours before former US President Donald Trump was informally anointed as the Republican party's presidential candidate, his legal team has formally requested a new trial in the E..

The case revolves around compensatory and punitive awards totalling $83 million, awarded to Carroll, who accused Trump of sexually abusing her in a department store dressing room during the mid-1990s..

They assert, This Courts erroneous decision to dramatically limit the scope of President Trumps testimony almost certainly influenced the jurys verdict, and thus a new trial is warranted..

By erroneously foreclosing any such testimony and erroneously striking the one sentence of President Trumps testimony on this point the Court all but assured that the jury would make a baseless punitive-damages award..

Jean Carroll punitive charges, Trumps legal team argued that Judge Kaplans instructions to the jury were flawed..

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