A New York jury on Tuesday found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, but not liable for her alleged rape.
The jury awarded her $5 million in damages for her battery & defamation claims.
Asked on their verdict sheet if Carroll, 79, had proven “by a preponderance of the evidence” that “Mr. Trump raped Ms. Carroll,” the 9-person jury checked the box that said “no.” Asked if Carroll had proven “by a preponderance of the evidence” that “Mr. Trump sexually abused Ms. Carroll,” the jury checked the box that said “yes.” Both allegations were elements of Carroll’s battery claim.
The 6 men & 3 women also found Trump had defamed her by calling her claims a “hoax” and “a con job.”
Carroll sued Trump accusing him of battery & defamation in Manhattan federal court last year, alleging he raped her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman department store near his Fifth Avenue home in 1995 or 1996.
Trump, first as president & then as a private citizen, called her account a fiction that she concocted to boost book sales & has said the writer is “not my type.” He did not testify in the case, but portions of his videotaped deposition from October were played for the jury.
The verdict was required to be unanimous.
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Source: NBC News
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