Trump asks for mistrial in battery case, saying choose has made ‘unfair and prejudicial’ rulings

Former President Donald Trump has requested the choose to declare a mistrial in his civil battery and defamation trial, arguing the choose has made “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” towards him.

Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina, in a letter filed in a single day Monday, mentioned alternatively he would ask Decide Lewis Kaplan to “appropriate the file for each occasion during which the Courtroom has mischaracterized the info of this case to the jury” or present him better leeway in cross analyzing E. Jean Carroll.

“Right here, regardless of the very fact trial testimony has been underway for less than two days, the proceedings are already replete with quite a few explains of Defendant’s unfair therapy by the Courtroom, most of which has been witnessed by the Jury,” the letter mentioned.

Carroll sued Trump, alleging he raped her within the Bergdorf Goodman division retailer within the mid-Nineties after which defamed her when he denied her declare, mentioned she wasn’t his kind and advised she made up the story to spice up gross sales of her ebook. Carroll will likely be on the stand Monday for a second day of cross-examination by Tacopina. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.

Among the many points raised by Tacopina are the choose’s ruling proscribing Tacopina from asking Carroll further questions on any efforts Carroll made to attempt to receive safety digital camera footage from the division retailer, “expressing a corroborative view” that there was nobody on the sixth flooring of the division retailer on the time of the alleged assault, and calling sure traces of the protection lawyer’s questioning “argumentative” in entrance of the jury.

It might be uncommon for the choose to declare a mistrial primarily based on his personal statements throughout a trial.