Trump Demands New Trial or Verdict Change in Carroll Case, Says Judge’s Errors ‘Infected’ Outcome

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday asked for a new trial or a change of verdict in the E. Jean Carroll case, citing “extreme restrictions” imposed on his courtroom testimony and erroneous instructions to the jury. In a series of court filings on March 5, including a motion asking U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to grant a new trial and/or alter or amend the $83 million judgment against him, President Trump’s attorneys argued that the outcome of the trial was “infected” by the judge’s errors. “The trial’s outcome was infected by two related errors: The exclusion of President Trump’s testimony about his own state of mind, which was highly relevant to the issue of common-law malice; and the erroneous jury instruction on the definition of common-law malice,” President Trump’s attorneys wrote in a memorandum in support of their motion....