Appeals court rules Trump liable in E. Jean Carroll sex abuse case

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47% : Trump's attorney presented oral arguments before a three-judge panel consisting of circuit judges Denny Chin, Susan Carney, and Myrna Perez - all of whom were appointed to the bench by Democratic presidentsCarroll departed court flanked by her attorney Roberta Kaplan, who said she stood by the evidence presented at the trialThe writer, who was wore dark blazer and suit with a navy blue hair ribbon, did not talk with reporters after arguments endedTrump was separately found liable for defaming Carroll in a second trial that took place in January this year where a jury ordered him to pay her $83.3million for having defamed her and damaging her reputation in June 2019 after she first accused him of rape.
45% : Dressed in his trademark navy suit and bright red tie, Trump entered the courtroom and walked straight past Carroll, who was sitting in the front row of the public gallery.
37% : She added that Trump had refused to testify or even attend the trial despite being given the opportunity.
37% : In both denials, Trump said he didn't know Carroll, that she was 'not my type,' and that she made up her story to promote her memoir.
35% : His attorneys claim the trial court erred by allowing in certain evidence such as the infamous Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump can be heard boasting about grabbing women's genitals, as well as testimony from other women who have accused him of sexual misconduct decades ago.
34% : In September, Trump appeared at the federal appeals court in New York as his lawyers fought to overturn the verdict.
33% : Trump is due to be sentenced on September 18 at a state court in New York for falsifying business records relating to a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
31% : Carroll, who claimed she was sexually assaulted by Trump at a department store dressing room in the 1990s, was also present at the hearing on FridayThe former president's motorcade was seen pulling up to the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Friday morningProtesters holding up placards reading 'guilty', 'rapist' and 'felon', gathered outside the Manhattan federal appeals court on Friday ahead of the hearing
27% : A jury found that Trump was liable for sexually assaulting Carroll, a journalist, in the mid-1990s.
25% : But Judge Chin asked if Trump 'put his hands up her skirt', wouldn't that count?Sauer reiterated that Leeds's evidence should have been excluded.
25% : Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts earlier this year after a blockbuster trial.
21% : In May, the jury found that Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll - but that there was not enough evidence to say he had raped her.
20% : He accused her of making up the claims because of her 'significant political bias against him' and 'turned her allegations against (Trump) into a lifestyle and sought to monetize her allegations as much as possible'.
20% : Trump denies all the allegations.
17% : Sauer questioned US District Judge Lewis Kaplan's decision to allow the Access Hollywood tape and testimony from Jessica Leeds, who accused Trump of groping her on a plane in the late 1970s, to be heard as evidence.
16% : The panel of six men and three women also found that Trump injured advice columnist Carroll in a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996 and defamed her when he called her a liar, ordering him to pay a total of $5 million in damages.
16% : The lawyer also argued that Trump has a 'pattern' of attacking women that begins with 'pleasantly chatting' them up before suddenly 'pouncing' on them and subsequently trashing the women when he is accused.
14% : Donald Trump appeared in court in New York on Friday as his lawyers fought to overturn the verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean CarrollIn his two-minute rebuttal, Trump's attorney John Sauer called the case 'a textbook example of implausible allegations' and a 'quintessential "he said, she said" case'The Republican nominee is contesting the May 2023 verdict stemming from his alleged mid-1990s encounter with Carroll, who claimed Trump sexually assaulted her at Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room and later defamed her when he publicly denied her allegations.
10% : The filing stated: 'The improper verdict in this case is a gross miscarriage of justice, backed by political operatives long opposed to President Trump and his politics, based on false and unsupported claims'In other legal filings, Trump's lawyers claimed the attack on Carroll 'never occurred'.
8% : The Republican presidential candidate spoke to the media during a press conference at Trump Tower after the court hearingTrump took the stand during the second civil trial where E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her decades ago, at Manhattan Federal Court in JanuaryCarroll's cases are separate from multiple criminal cases against the former US president.

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