No qualified litigator will continue as lead on appeal - win or lose. Appellate law is a very specialized subset of litigation and it's totally different than trial litigation.
It is also critical that a new lawyer without the baggage of having tried the case take over to view the case record with a dispassionate appellate perspective to get best results.
And yes, the law that they passed was specifically targeted to get Trump
This makes it both an ex post facto law and a bill of attainder specifically targeting Donald Trump
The statutes of limitations had already expired to file this case and Carroll had lost her standing to sue decades ago due to being time barred by statutes of limitation.
Once expired, the statutes of limitation on case cannot be extended because we any law that attempts to extend expired statutes of limitation constitute an unconstitutional expose facto law.
It is within the law to extend statutes of limitation but these extensions will only be applicable to cases where the pre existing statutes of limitation have not already expired.
In Trumps case, the pre existing time limits had long since expired and it's unconstitutional to write legislation to try to resurrect them. I really don’t see how this case ever even went to trial, unless it’s some sort of an administrative lawcourt
That would mean the cut off would be in 2003 - a decade after E Jean originally claimed and E Jean turned 55 over 20 years ago
Carrol lis on record of saying that the event happened in the early 1990s. She no doubt choose this time frame for two reasons first, in the early 1990s she would have been under 50 years of age and it's harder for the public to believe a guy like Donald Trump would sexually assault a senior citizen and second, it was so long ago it would be hard to disprove