周三，纽约一名联邦法官驳回了前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)对e·让·卡罗尔(E. Jean Carroll)提起的诽谤和殴打案进行重新审判的请求500万美元的损害赔偿金.
特朗普有寻求新的审判今年5月，纽约的一个陪审团认定他应对上世纪90年代在波道夫·古德曼的更衣室里性侵这位前《Elle》杂志专栏作家，然后在2022年诽谤她负责真实社会邮报称她的指控是“骗局和谎言”
法官刘易斯·卡普兰(Lewis Kaplan)拒绝了这一请求，他说，“本案的陪审团没有得出‘严重错误的结果’。”"
“它的判决不是‘误判’，”法官在裁决中说。
卡罗尔的律师罗伯塔·卡普兰(Roberta Kaplan)在一份声明中说，“既然法院驳回了特朗普要求重新审判或减少判决金额的动议，让·卡罗尔(E. Jean Carroll)期待获得陪审团判给她的500万美元赔偿金。”
在5月份做出裁决时，陪审团认为特朗普应对殴打卡罗尔负责，但没有发现他像指控的那样强奸了她，而是认为他应对性侵犯负责。
陪审团成员判给卡罗尔200万美元的补偿性赔偿金和2万美元的惩罚性赔偿金，以及100万美元的赔偿金、170万美元的名誉修复费和28万美元的惩罚性赔偿金。
“法院应该下令就损害赔偿进行新的审判或批准赦免，因为与原告的强奸指控相反，陪审团发现她在1995/1996年的伯格多夫·古德曼事件中没有被强奸，而是受到了被告的性虐待，”特朗普的律师在他们的新审判申请中辩称。
“这种虐待可能包括透过衣服摸索原告的乳房或类似行为，这与强奸相去甚远，”特朗普的律师说。“因此，根据适用的判例法，对这种行为赔偿200万美元是非常过分的，尽管这种行为并没有对原告造成任何经诊断的精神伤害。”
然而，卡普兰在他的裁决中说，“陪审团没有因为卡罗尔女士在衣服里摸她的乳房而判给她超过200万美元，尽管这可能是错误的。没有任何证据表明这种行为。”
“相反，”法官写道，“证据令人信服地成立，陪审团含蓄地发现，特朗普先生故意用手指强行插入卡罗尔女士的阴道，造成了即时的疼痛和长期的情感和心理伤害。”
“因此，特朗普先生的论点忽略了庭审中的大部分证据，曲解了陪审团的裁决，错误地专注于纽约刑法对‘强奸’的定义，而忽略了这个词在日常生活中经常使用的含义，以及卡罗尔女士和特朗普先生之间实际发生的事情的证据，”裁决说。
5月份的审判是2022诉讼卡罗尔根据纽约的一项新法律对特朗普提起诉讼，该法律允许成年性侵受害者提起诉讼，否则随着时间的推移，这些诉讼将被禁止。
卡罗尔最初在2019年起诉特朗普诽谤，此前他否认了她的说法，称她“不是我喜欢的类型”，并暗示她捏造指控，以增加她当时即将出版的书的销量。
那个案子被法律上的技术问题缠住了，但是司法部裁决上周可能会为这一进程扫清道路。
Judge denies Trump's request for new trial in E. Jean Carroll case
A federal judge in New York on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump's request for a new trial in the defamation and battery case brought by E. Jean Carroll that resulted in a $5 million damage award.
Trump had sought a new trial after a New York jury in May found him liable for sexually assaulting the former Elle magazine columnist in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s, then defaming her in a 2022 Truth Social post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie."
Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the request, saying, "The jury in this case did not reach 'a seriously erroneous result.'"
"Its verdict is not 'a miscarriage of justice,'" the judge said in his ruling.
"Now that the court has denied Trump's motion for a new trial or to decrease the amount of the verdict, E. Jean Carroll looks forward to receiving the $5 million in damages that the jury awarded her," Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement.
In rendering its verdict in May, the jury held Trump liable for battering Carroll, but did not find that he raped her as alleged, instead holding him liable for sexual assault.
Jury members awarded Carroll damages of $2 million in compensatory damages and $20,000 in punitive damages for battery, as well as $1 million in damages, $1.7 million for reputation repair, and $280,000 in punitive damages, for defamation.
"The Court should order a new trial on damages or grant remittitur because contrary to Plaintiff's claim of rape, the Jury found that she was not raped but was sexually abused by Defendant during the 1995/1996 Bergdorf Goodman incident," Trump's attorneys argued in their bid for a new trial.
"Such abuse could have included groping of Plaintiffs breasts through clothing or similar conduct, which is a far cry from rape," Trump's attorneys said. "Therefore, an award of $2 million for such conduct, which admittedly did not cause any diagnosed mental injury to Plaintiff, is grossly excessive under the applicable case law."
Kaplan, however, said in his ruling that "this jury did not award Ms. Carroll more than $2 million for groping her breasts through her clothing, wrongful as that might have been. There was no evidence at all of such behavior."
"Instead," the judge wrote, "the proof convincingly established, and the jury implicitly found, that Mr. Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll's vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long lasting emotional and psychological harm."
"Mr. Trump's argument therefore ignores the bulk of the evidence at trial, misinterprets the jury's verdict, and mistakenly focuses on the New York Penal Law definition of 'rape' to the exclusion of the meaning of that word as it often is used in everyday life and of the evidence of what actually occurred between Ms. Carroll and Mr. Trump," the ruling said.
The trial in May was the result of a 2022 lawsuit Carroll filed against Trump under a new law in New York that allows adult sex assault victims to file claims that would otherwise be barred by the passage of time.
Carroll initially sued Trump for defamation in 2019 after he denied her claims by saying she was "not my type" and suggesting she fabricated her accusation in order to increase sales of her then-forthcoming book.
That case has been tied up in legal technicalities, but a Justice Department ruling last week may clear the way for it to proceed.
