Appeals court rejects Trump's challenge of sexual abuse verdict in E. Jean Carroll case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : Monday's 77-page decision rejected complaints made repeatedly by Trump before, during and after the nine-day trial.
34% : In post-trial rulings he wrote that Carroll's assertion that Trump raped her was "substantially true.""The definition of rape in the New York Penal Law is far narrower than the meaning of 'rape' in common modern parlance, its definition in some dictionaries, in some federal and state criminal statutes, and elsewhere," Lewis Kaplan wrote in July 2023The jury "implicitly found Mr. Trump did in fact digitally rape Ms. Carroll," Lewis Kaplan wrote.
31% : Carroll said she and Trump bumped into each other by chance while shopping at Bergdorf Goodman.
29% : The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in New York, found that District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan did not err in allowing the testimonies of two women who made claims on the stand of alleged encounters with Trump that bore similarities to Carroll's.
29% : Attorneys for Trump did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
28% : Trump has vehemently denied Carroll's allegations, and vowed to appeal the case as far as the Supreme Court.
27% : The jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation, but rejected the rape claim, which under New York's statute requires proof of forceful penetration involving the attacker's genitals.
25% : The court roundly rejected claims by Trump and his lawyers that the judge who presided over the trial made a series of decisions that harmed Trump's standing with the jury.
25% : Among Trump's complaints about the trial was that the jurors were shown an outtake from "Access Hollywood," in which Trump could be heard describing grabbing women's genitals.
6% : Trump asked for a new trial after a jury unanimously concluded in May 2023 that a preponderance of evidence supported Carroll's claim that Trump sexually abused her during a mid-1990s encounter in a New York City department store.

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