A federal judge upheld the verdict and award in E. Jean Carroll's defamation case against former US President Donald Trump and denied Trump's motion for a new trial.
Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a written opinion, said Trump's legal arguments are without merit. The judge also found that the punitive damages the jury awarded to Carroll "passes constitutional muster."
Carroll, a former magazine columnist, alleged Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when he denied her claim. In a separate case, a jury last year found Trump liable for the sexual assault. In this courtroom sketch, attorney Alina Habba points to her client, former President Donald Trump, as she delivers her closing arguments to the jury, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, in New York. A jury has begun deliberating in the defamation trial against Trump, deciding if he owes writer E. Jean Carroll money after a jury last year concluded that he sexually abused her in 1996.
"The jury," Kaplan added, "was entitled to conclude that Mr. Trump derailed the career, reputation, and emotional well-being of one of America's most successful and prominent advice columnists and authors." As Carroll's lawyers delivered their closing arguments, Trump abruptly and dramatically stood up and left the courtroom.
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