Trump makes another move to avoid paying E. Jean Carroll

[Wicked Blue]

Updated: Mar. 07, 2024, 2:32 p.m.|Published: Mar. 07, 2024, 2:08 p.m.

By Matt Arco | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Donald Trump’s lawyers said Tuesday that the ex-president deserves a new trial and a fresh chance to tell a jury why he berated writer E. Jean Carroll for her sex abuse claims against him after she revealed them five years ago.

And at the same time he’s adding to the size of his legal team.

“Trump is further beefing up his legal team in the E. Jean Carroll case with a second appellate lawyer, Will Scharf, who is also a candidate for Missouri AG. (Scharf moved to be admitted in SDNY for purposes of the case today.)” Lisa Rubin, a legal correspondent for MSNBC posted on X, formerly Twitter.

The lawyers made the assertion as they renewed challenges to the $83.3 million awarded to Carroll in January by a Manhattan jury.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/03/trump-makes-another-move-to-avoid-paying-e-jean-carroll.html

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1. Bullshit.

[Think. Again.]

2. What? You can call "do-overs" in the court system? I didn't know that.

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8. Moving for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict and/or a new trial are standard litigation tactics.

Recognized in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_50

[getagrip_already]

3. They keep asking and getting the same answer....

This must be getting old even for their supporters.

It doesn't stop the clock. It doesn't stay collection, which can start Monday.

All it does is fill the docket and rack up billable hours.

Tell it to the appeals court.

[Wicked Blue]

4. His M.O. is to stall and stall and stall some more

in the hope of avoiding responsibility for his crimes

[getagrip_already]

5. Which is the strange part... this doesnt delay anything

The judge just keeps saying no. They only have until Monday.

Then carolls lawyers can walk in and schedule a hearing for seizure of assets.

They probably have the papers written out. They will be waiting for the clerk to open the door.

I suppose they could get lucky and he could give them a few days. But he isn't granting them a new trial. And he isn't reducing the verdict.

Both of those could come on appeal, but they haven't filed an appeal yet.

[MadameButterfly]

7. Fill up the docket? Is there a chance they'll hear the case again?

[WarGamer]

6. He didn't even show up in Court to the first trial...

He could have taken the stand and claim he never met her and the story was nonsense...

BUT... what a coincidence. He didn't. Maybe afraid of perjuring himself?

[GreenWave]

9. As the SCROTUS (Alito) likes ancient things, why not debtor's prison for Donnie?