On Friday, A federal appeals court in an 8-2 vote Friday declined President Trump’s bid to rehear his appeal of a jury verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
A three-judge panel on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the verdict late last year. On Friday, the full active 2nd Circuit bench declined to disturb that decision over the dissent of two judges.
“Simply re-litigating a case is not an appropriate use of the en banc procedure,” wrote U.S. Circuit Judge Myrna Pérez, joined by three of her colleagues, all of whom were appointed by former President Biden.
“In those rare instances in which a case warrants our collective consideration, it is almost always because it involves a question of exceptional importance or a conflict between the panel’s opinion and appellate precedent,” Pérez added.
In 2023, the New York jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and defaming her by denying her story when she came forward during Trump’s first presidency. The jury ordered Trump to pay $5 million.
Two Trump-appointed 2nd Circuit judges, Steven Menashi and Michael Park, in dissent said Friday that the trial included a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings.”
“The result was a jury verdict based on impermissible character evidence and few reliable facts. No one can have any confidence that the jury would have returned the same verdict if the normal rules of evidence had been applied,” Menashi wrote.
Typical Democrat ignorance and/or bias; yet another travesty by Democrat cretins (but I repeat myself).
I see that the devils Appeals Court is at it again. They serve Satan and no one else. Shame on all of you.
it was a New York jury that convicted Trump. There’s no way Donald Trump would have been so desperate that he would have even looked at this silly woman. Trump wouldn’t resort to a dressing room to even talk to this bonehead – if he wanted sex, he owns a hotel! The woman is a liar and has a history of this type of behavior. I am appalled that Trump was even convicted let alone charged that much money! I am so sick of activist judges. Seems we have a few more in this case.
Does this mean that any woman can accuse any man of rape or sexual abuse at anytime in her life, with no evidence, no witnesses, no records or official records in relation to that accusation. This just does not seem even worthy of going to court over much less have Judges who feel that there was enough of anything besides politics to substantiate taking it to trial, for a jury to supposedly hear the evidence which did’t esist, and make a determination to award the vic $5,000,000 which is in it self a gross miscarriage of accepted judicial rules of excessive punishments. This must go to the US. Supreme Court on appeal.