Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers plan to appeal $83.3 million verdict in defamation suit from E. Jean Carroll, citing “extraordinary” conflict of interest with the presiding judge. It is.
Breitbart News reported Friday that a jury found that former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll tarnished her reputation by calling former President Donald Trump a liar after she accused him of sexual assault. and award him an additional $83.3 million in damages.”
In this courtroom sketch, E. Jean Carroll (right) turns to former President Donald Trump, who is seated to her left, on January 16, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)
“The verdict was handed down Friday by a jury of seven men and two women in a trial that President Trump regularly attends, but the president abruptly left the courtroom during closing arguments by Carroll’s lawyers. He then returned,” the report added.
Over the weekend, Donald Trump’s legal team, along with attorney Alina Haba, announced that they would appeal the verdict. claim They were unaware that Judge Lewis Kaplan had previously coached E. Jean Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, in the 1990s. Although their last names are similar, the two have nothing to do with each other.
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“It was never revealed. It’s crazy and it’s so incestuous,” said Ms. Haba, who claimed that her past relationship was never revealed.
Attorney Alina Haba speaks to the media in front of the New York Supreme Court on November 2, 2023 in New York. (Stephen Jeremiah/Associated Press)
by daily mailallegation of conflict of interest erupted “An anonymous former Weiss partner reportedly claimed that junior associate Roberta Kaplan made special efforts to outshine the managing partner.”
Former President Donald Trump and former President Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Haba (right) during their trial in New York State Supreme Court on October 17, 2023. (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
A former partner claimed the judge was Roberta Kaplan’s mentor.
“Before becoming a founding partner of Kaplan, Keckler & Fink in 2016, Roberta Kaplan worked with judges at Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison in Manhattan,” he said. Ta. Post.
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“According to LinkedIn, she joined the firm in 1992, where Judge Kaplan was a partner until she was appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in 1994,” the paper added.
Zach Sawyer, Roberta Kaplan’s attorney, argued that she and the judge barely knew each other.
“In the early 1990s, when he was a senior partner and she was a junior associate at a major law firm, they had worked together for less than two years, and she had never worked for him before. There was no such thing,” he said.
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