Trump Rape Case Judge Denies His Mistrial Demand

CBS News reports:

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on Monday denied a motion by former President Donald Trump’s lawyers to declare a mistrial the civil battery and defamation lawsuit against him that was brought by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

In a letter filed early Monday, Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina alleged Kaplan had made “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” against the former president.

Tacopina asked the to judge dismiss the lawsuit, or as an alternative, “correct the record for each and every instance in which the Court has mischaracterized the facts of this case to the Jury” and “allow the Defendant’s counsel to have greater latitude to cross-examine Plaintiff and her witnesses.”

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The motion was denied without comment. Pity.

BREAKING: A judge denied former President Trump’s motion for a mistrial in a battery and defamation case against him. https://t.co/6N3hL3bXBo

— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 1, 2023

need some cheering up? Joe Tacopina was whining to Judge Kaplan about how unfair it was that Donald Trump should have be on trial and there should be a mistrial because reasons, and Judge Kaplan just told Joe Tacopina to fuck off

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) May 1, 2023