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Carroll v
Trump Trial a
Sealed
Proceeding
Then Carroll
Filing Under
Seal Sunday
Night
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 30 – When
E. Jean
Carroll
testified on
April 26 on
direct
examination
about Donald
Trump
allegedly
raping her in
Bergdorf
Goodman's in
1996, then
defaming her
in 2019,
Trump's lawyer
Joe Tacopina
repeatedly
objected.
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York
Judge Louis A.
Kaplan denied
most
objections -
and told
Tacopina that
his client
might be
subjecting
himself to
liability
under other
Federal
statutes with
his posts on
Truth Social
(and his son's
tweets).
On
April 27,
after the
direct was
completed,
Tacopina began
his cross
examination.
Objections
were
repeatedly
sustained as
he asked why
E. Jean
Carroll had
not gone to
the police,
how no one was
present in
Bergdorf's,
and more. The
trial
continues on
Monday May 1.
Inner
City Press
live tweeted
the direct
testimony,
thread here
Then
on April 27,
the cross
examination,
here
On Sunday
April 30
Carroll's
lawyer
docketed a
letter
referencing a
sealed filing:
"On the
morning of
Thursday,
April 27,
2023, the
Court held a
brief
proceeding
under seal
concerning an
issue that had
arisen during
trial. During
that
proceeding,
the Court
invited
further
briefing.
Plaintiff now
files such
briefing and
corresponding
papers, and
respectfully
requests leave
to file them
under seal
given the
nature of the
issue.
Plaintiff
further
respectfully
requests that
any subsequent
filings and
hearings
relating to
Plaintiff’s
motion be
under seal as
well." Watch
this site.
Court
art: Tacopina
and Judge
Kaplan,
courtesy to
Inner City
Press from
Elizabeth
Williams
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