Judge denies Trump’s bid for mistrialĀ in E. Jean Carroll rape lawsuit
Former President Donald Trumpās attorney requested a mistrial Monday in E. Jean Carrollās civil rape case against the ex-commander-in-chief ā citing āpervasive unfair and prejudicial rulš·ingsā by the Manhaą½§ttan federal court judge.
But Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the motion š§øbefore the jury was brougź¦¬ht into the courtroom Monday morning. The judge did not explain his decision.
Trump attorney Joe Tacopina had said in the letter filed in Manhattan federal court earlier Monday that he would ask Kaplan to ācorź¦¦rect the record for each and every instance in which the Court has mischaracterized the facts of this case to the juryā or provide him greater leeway in cross-examining Carroll.
āHere, despite the fact trial testimony has šbeen underway for only two days, the proceedings are already replete with numerous examples of Defendantās unfair treatment by the Court, most of which has been witnessed by the Jury,ā he wrote.
Cāarroll, 79, testified last week that Trump, 76, raped her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman department storše in midtown Manhattan, most likely in the spring of 1996.
She has alleged that he defašmed her when he denied hš³er claim, said she wasnāt his type, and suggested she concocted the story to boost sales of her 2019 memoir.
The former president has denied any wrongdoing.
Carroź¦ll took the witness stand for the third time Monday, for a second day of cross-examination bš°y Tacopina, who argued that he should have been allowed to explore why she did not pursue security footage from the store and why she did not go to the police after the alleged incident.
āYou canāt beat up on ź§me bš¹ecause I didnāt scream,ā Carroll told him after insisting earlier that she was ānot a screamer ā Iām a fighter.ā
In his mistrial request, Tacopina also complained that the judge shut down his questią¼oning when he pushed š·Carroll to explain why she did not scream.
Tacopina on Monday pressed Carroll about why she didn’t report the alleged attack to the police.
Carroll responded that women from her generationź¦Æ were not taught to report incidents like hers.
The fact that I never went to the police is not surprising from someone my age,” she said. “I would never call the police about something I was ashamed of.”
“I was ashamed about what happened,” she said. “I thought it was my fault.”
A rep for Carroll declined to comment to Tš„he Post.