Trump asks judge to cut the $128 million penalty in E. Jean Carroll case or grant him a new trial
In a longshot bid, former President Donald Trump is asking the judge overseeing E. Jean Carroll's defamation case against him to significantly reduce the US$83.3 million (A$128.1 million) jury award or grant a new trial.
Trump argued that Judge Lewis Kaplan wrongly prohibited him from defending himself during his brief testimony and that warrants a new trial.
In court filings Tuesday, Trump's lawyers said Kaplan erred when he stopped Trump from testifying about "his own state of mind" and when he gave an "erroneous jury instruction on the definition of common-law malice." Trump's lawyers said the jury should have been told they needed to find that it was Trump's "sole, exclusive desire to harm" Carroll.
"This Court's erroneous decision to dramatically limit the scope...