Judge shoots down Trump’s request for mistrial in NYC civil rape case, accused by ex-president of being ‘unfair’
Posted on AllSides May 1st, 2023
From The Left
NEW YORK -- A Manhattan judge shot down Donald Trump’s Monday request to have his New York City civil rape trial tossed, rejecting the ex-president’s complaints that he hadn’t been given a fair shake. In an early-morning 18-page court filing, Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina accused Judge Lewis Kaplan of unfairly sustaining a bevy of objections from E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer on grounds they were argumentative. Before proceedings got underway for the day, Kaplan swiftly denied the mistrial motion. Tacopina said Kaplan has made “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” in the...
