Defense lawyers said Thursday in a recent court filing that the compensation granted to former president Donald Trump should be reviewed since the Manhattan jury didn’t find that Trump had sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll as she had long claimed.
“Against Plaintiff’s allegation of rape, the Jury decided that she was assaulted sexually by Defendant throughout the 1995–1996 Bergdorf Goodman incident rather than rape, and the Court ought to decide another hearing on penalties or give remittitur.
The abuse might have involved touching the plaintiffs’ breasts while they were covered up or other such behavior, which is very different from rape. According to the appropriate case law, a $2 million sentence for such behavior, which the prosecution recognized did not result in any proven mental injuries to the plaintiff, is shockingly unfair.
Trump was found guilty by the jury of assaulting E. Jean Carroll. The jury found him guilty of sexual assault, a less serious type of abuse than the supposed rape that allegedly took place in her changing room in a department shop.
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