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NEW YORK (NewsNation) — Former President Donald Trump appeared successful a New York City courtroom Friday arsenic his lawyers presented arguments to overturn the determination holding him liable for sexually abusing columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Attorney D. John Sauer told a sheet of 3 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges that the civilian proceedings successful Carroll's suit was muddied by improper evidence.
The tribunal is improbable to contented a ruling earlier November’s statesmanlike election.
Trump's lawyer's arguments
Caroll claims Trump attacked her successful a section store dressing country successful 1996. That jury awarded Carroll $5 million past year.
Trump’s lawyers reason the jury’s verdict should beryllium tossed due to the fact that grounds was allowed astatine proceedings that should've been excluded and different grounds was excluded that should person been permitted.
Trump, who has denied attacking Carroll, did not be the May 2023 proceedings and has expressed regret helium was not there.
In January, a 2nd assemblage recovered Trump liable successful the lawsuit and the sheet awarded Carroll different $83.3 cardinal successful damages for comments Trump made astir her portion helium was president, uncovering they were defamatory. At the time, Trump called the ruling “a disgrace” and vowed to appeal.
Trump testified for little than 3 minutes astatine the proceedings and was not permitted to refute conclusions reached by the May 2023 jury. In April, the judge rejected Trump’s bid for a caller trial.
E. Jean Carroll's testimony
Carroll, 80, testified during some trials that her beingness arsenic an Elle mag columnist was spoiled by Trump's nationalist comments, which she said ignited specified hatred against her that she received decease threats and feared going extracurricular the upstate New York compartment wherever she lives.
Lawyers for Trump said successful tribunal papers that helium deserves a caller proceedings successful portion due to the fact that the proceedings judge, Lewis A. Kaplan, permitted 2 different women to attest astir akin acts of enactment maltreatment they accidental Trump committed against them successful the 1970s and successful 2005.
They besides argued that Kaplan wrongly disallowed grounds that Carroll lied during her deposition, and different grounds they accidental would uncover bias and motives to prevarication for Carroll and different witnesses against Trump. The verdict, they wrote, was “unjust and erroneous,” resulting from “flawed and prejudicial evidentiary rulings."
Trump has insisted that Carroll made up the communicative astir being attacked to merchantability a caller book. He has denied knowing her.
Trump's lawyers besides challenged repeated airing astatine proceedings of an “Access Hollywood” videotape from 2005 successful which Trump is heard saying that helium sometimes conscionable starts kissing beauteous women and “when you're a prima they fto you bash it.” He besides said that a prima tin drawback women's genitals due to the fact that “You tin bash anything.”
In their written arguments, Carroll's lawyers said Trump was wrongly demanding “a do-over” based connected unfounded "sweeping complaints of unfairness” and different “distortions of the record, misstatements oregon misapplications of the law, and a steadfast disregard of the territory court’s reasoning.”
NewsNation integer shaper Rich Johnson and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
