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

Former President Donald Trump has actually asked the judge to state a mistrial in his civil battery and disparagement trial, arguing the judge has actually made “prevalent unjust and prejudicial judgments” versus him.

Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina, in a letter submitted over night Monday, stated additionally he would ask Judge Lewis Kaplan to “remedy the record for each and every circumstances in which the Court has actually mischaracterized the realities of this case to the jury” or offer him higher freedom in cross analyzing E. Jean Carroll.

” Here, regardless of the reality trial statement has actually been underway for just 2 days, the procedures are currently brimming with many describes of Accused’s unjust treatment by the Court, the majority of which has actually been experienced by the Jury,” the letter stated.

Carroll took legal action against Trump, declaring he raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman outlet store in the mid-1990s and after that maligned her when he rejected her claim, stated she wasn’t his type and recommended she comprised the story to enhance sales of her book. Carroll will be on the stand Monday for a 2nd day of interrogation by Tacopina. Trump has actually rejected any misdeed.

Amongst the problems raised by Tacopina are the judge’s judgment limiting Tacopina from asking Carroll extra concerns about any efforts Carroll made to attempt to get security cam video footage from the outlet store, “revealing a corroborative view” that there was nobody on the 6th flooring of the outlet store at the time of the supposed attack, and calling specific lines of the defense lawyer’s questioning “argumentative” in front of the jury.

It would be uncommon for the judge to state a mistrial based upon his own declarations throughout a trial.