A New York federal appeals court confirmed on Thursday a civil jury’s decision that found Donald Trump liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll, ordering him to pay $5 million in damages.
The ruling, reached by a unanimous three-judge panel, clarified that Trump did not demonstrate any error in the presiding judge’s decisions during the initial trial, stating, “he has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial,” according to the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
This ruling arises from a May 2023 verdict delivered by a Manhattan federal court jury.
The jury had determined that Trump was liable for sexually assaulting Carroll in a department store in New York City during the 1990s, as well as for defaming her in 2022 when he publicly denied her allegations. Notably, he was not serving as president at the time the defamation statements were made.
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