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Trump’s Legal Team Has Requested a Mistrial
They are setting the groundwork for an appeal
Trump has been sued so many times, that his trial strategies are well-known and completely predictable. So, no one was surprised when his lawyer, Joe Tacopina, delivered an 18-page letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan, the presiding judge in E. Jean Carroll’s case against Trump, requesting a mistrial because of his supposed bias against Trump.
And what was that bias?
· The judge did not allow Tacopina to question Carroll about why she didn’t try to get a copy of the security tape that would have shown what happened in the dressing room where the alleged rape occurred.
· The judge limited Tacopina’s questioning of Carroll as to why she didn’t scream or go to the police.
· Kaplan’s statement that Trump was “sailing in harm’s way” after Eric Trump posted a tweet that Carroll’s defense is being funded by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. The judge was alluding to his warning about jury tampering by Trump.
These, and other accusations, were characterized in the letter as “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings.”
Is the judge biased against Trump?
