Tacopina’s mistrial motion in E. Jean Carroll suit is part of ‘laying the groundwork for an appeal’

A Manhattan judge denied the request of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers to declare a mistrial in a civil rape and defamation suit brought by E. Jean Carroll. NBC News Senior Legal Correspondent Laura Jarrett joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss what this means for the case. “The idea was that some of his rulings hadn't been favorable to the defense team. Joe Tacopina filed it early this morning, undoubtedly knowing that he wasn't going to win it, but he's laying the groundwork for an appeal,” Jarrett says. “And so they have to make a record of all the evidentiary objections that were sustained and that the judge didn't go for. The judge didn’t even explain why he denied the mistrial motion. It was just done sort of in a cursory manner this morning, and everyone kept going.”


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#Tacopina #EJeanCaroll #Trump

[terrencekane]

Tacopina knows he already lost this trial. That's why he's planting the appeal seeds. It's all he has.

[DoncasterLass]

even if he had not asked for a mistrial, or stated that the judge was biased, if TFG is found guilty, then of course they will go for an appeal up the highest court. today's stunt will make no difference.

[dianewiegel]

At some point maybe this country will hold a wealthy white man accountable for his words and actions.

[Thethelement]

Glenn Kirschner called this mistrial approach by Taco when the trial started. Trump said he’s leaving for Ireland. He needs to be held for federal trials and Taco should be disbarred.

[lisam]

Tacopina is the epitome of why women do not report these kinds of assaults- his egregiously gross treatment of the victim.

[USMC-]

I have no idea if Carroll is telling the Truth or lying. Only two people really know. One person is a known habitual lying womanizer and the other a Woman. So my money is on the Woman.

[lindawadeok]

Tacopino doesn't know how to answer a question what he does know is how to attack a witness. And that's exactly why the judge was all over him because he was trying to make statements to the jury instead of actually asking the witness a question. That will go nowhere in appeal

[ianreed]

By the end of the year Tacopina will join the long list of former Trump attorneys that have already been sanctioned, disbarred, jailed or unpaid. He better get himself an attorney!😅

[lavalampluva]

"Laying the groundwork for an appeal" = TFG is in serious trouble.

[johnnydoe]

Either that or Trump’s Lawyer Realises
that he is Losing. 😂

[hz]

Trump Is traveling to Europe to do a dumpster sale of his properties to save himself from insolvency because brothers Putin & MBS are too broke/ busy to help him out 😁😁

[fuzzybuzzwords]

DonaId is steadfastly determined to spend his twilight years Iosing court battles and eIections.

[Grammy]

Was Tacopina’s motion satire? He should have had someone explain that to him by now.

[shaystern]

Judge denies Trump’s motion for mistrial in battery case

[t.r.campbell]

She is absolutely correct. Attorneys on both sides will file briefs, and in most cases, the judge will either reject or concur with the brief. All the attorneys are attempting to do is lay the groundwork for an appeal and or a mistrial. This is all legal positioning.

[Argeaux]

I think the law should be changed so that defendant lawyers should not be allowed to personally question the survivor about anything other than the incident.

Otherwise, what they do, is try to find one thing the survivor hasn't remembered, or one minor thing that besmirches their character, and then the defendant is found not guilty.

[cherylmatthews]

When you support and enable cl9wns, you get a circus...voters MUST demand BETTER!!!

[micheal]

Two great female minds discussing this trail

[billbrenne]

Uh, what about simply filing an appeal rather than throwing a temper tantrum? 😉

[gailbradford]

It’s crap….where were her claims 20 years ago?