Trump Lawyer Says Judge’s Alleged Conflict of Interest Could Affect Defamation Verdict

Published on January 30, 2024

Alina Habba, former President Donald Trump’s lawyer in his recently concluded defamation lawsuit, is questioning the presiding judge over a potential conflict of interest that could prove to be crucial to secure a new trial in the case. The defamation trial ended on Jan. 26, with a panel of nine jurors ordering President Trump to pay the plaintiff, writer E. Jean Carroll, $83 million in damages. Ms. Carroll had sued the former president in 2019 over two of his statements in which he denied sexually assaulting her. On Jan. 27, the New York Post ran a story alleging that Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the defamation case, was once a mentor to the plaintiff’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan (no relation), when the two worked together at the same law firm in the 1990s....

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