Former President Donald Trump’s legal professionals requested a decide on Tuesday to delay imposing the $83 million defamation penalty a jury handed down in author E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial.
Trump attorneys Alina Habba and John Sauer requested New York Decide Lewis Kaplan to increase the keep of the ruling, which is about to run out on Monday. Trump should pay Carroll or put up $91 million in money bond wanted to enchantment the ruling.
In New York, a defendant should pay a money bond of 110% of the judgment to enchantment the ruling of a civil case.
“Requiring President Trump to put up a bond or different safety earlier than this Courtroom’s ruling on his keep movement threatens to impose irreparable harm within the type of substantial prices (which can or will not be recoverable),” the attorneys wrote.
The letter requested the decide to increase the keep by at the very least Thursday.
“Habba is asking Decide Lew Kaplan — who has but to rule on Trump’s request to remain enforcement of the $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll judgment as his post-trial motions are resolved — for some mercy,” tweeted MSNBC authorized analyst Lisa Rubin. “Particularly, she notes that the prevailing keep expires Monday and asks that if Kaplan doesn’t rule by tomorrow, he ought to at the very least keep enforcement of the judgment for 3 enterprise days after that ruling.”
Rubin added that the letter suggests “Trump may very well be having problem arranging for a bond of $91-plus million.”
“Anticipating that Kaplan will deny his request for an extended keep, he’s making an attempt to purchase himself time to acquire one or unencumber ample money,” she wrote.
The New York Instances’ Maggie Haberman informed CNN on Thursday that the repeated requests for a delay recommend “there’s clearly an issue to date in buying a bond.”
“It does not imply that they will not get there, however I am unsure what a few extra days delay goes to do. And the decide has already mentioned no delay beforehand,” she mentioned.
Habba beforehand argued in a submitting that “requirement of a bond could be inappropriate … the place the defendant’s skill to pay the judgment is so plain that the price of the bond could be a waste of cash.”
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E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan rejected that argument in a letter to the decide.
“Trump affords no various means apart from his personal unsubstantiated say in order that he could have $83.3 million accessible when Carroll prevails on enchantment,” the lawyer wrote.
Decide Kaplan issued an order on Monday stating {that a} ruling on the keep request can be “rendered as promptly as in all fairness attainable.”
“With out implying what that call can be or when it is going to be made, nonetheless, it won’t come at the moment,” he wrote.
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