Wrong; no jury heard anything at all about what I posted!
“Wrong; no jury heard anything at all about what I posted!”
I didn’t say the first jury heard it. I said they would’ve been ALLOWED to hear it. If it wasn’t put in evidence, that was another mistake by Trump’s (former) lawyer.
At the second trial, Trump and his new lawyer weren’t allowed to re-litigate anything decided at the first trial. That’s why, at the second trial, the defense couldn’t attack Carroll’s story.
Trump’s problem on the appeal from the first verdict is that his not testifying was his own choice. His problem on the appeal from the second verdict is that the restrictions on what he could argue at the second trial were correct. The ban on re-litigating issues is called collateral estoppel. Summary here: https://www.bloomberglaw.com/external/document/X9G5LJ8G000000/litigation-overview-collateral-estoppel
If Trump loses both appeals, he should consider an action for legal malpractice against his former lawyer, Joe Tacopina.