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Joe Tacopina, Attorney for former President Donald Trump, leaves Federal Court after the civil trial against former President Donald Trump at Manhattan on May 09, 2023 in New York City. A trial in that case ended with a Manhattan federal court jury finding Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her. On Monday, Tacopina filed a notice with the appeals court seeking the withdrawal of his law firm from the case. Also Monday, Tacopina filed a notice withdrawing from the Manhattan Supreme Court case where he was defending Trump on criminal charges of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to the porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump, who denies having sex with Daniels, reimbursed Cohen for the payment and other related costs, which were recorded by the Trump Organization as legal expenses.

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☆ Trump Lawyer Tacopina Withdraws From Manhattan Legal Team
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

By Hannah Lang(Reuters) - Joseph Tacopina, an attorney on former U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team, on Monday said he will no longer represent him in a criminal case in Manhattan related to alleged hush money payments or a separate appeal of a civil case. Trump has pled not guilty to the charges, and will face a trial this year, although the timing is uncertain. Asked about Tacopina's shift, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told Reuters, "President Trump has the most experienced, qualified, disciplined, and overall strongest legal team ever assembled as he continues to fight for America and Americans against these partisan, Crooked Joe Biden-led election interference hoaxes." Tacopina is one of several Trump lawyers to have stopped representing him in ongoing cases. At least three members of his legal team in Florida stepped down after Trump was indicted in June on charges he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office.

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☆ Key Trump Lawyer Withdraws as Manhattan Criminal Trial Nears
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Maggie Haberman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Joseph Tacopina, the trial lawyer on Donald J. Trump’s legal team with the most successes defending high-profile clients, will no longer represent the former president in his criminal trial in Manhattan, according to a notice sent to the court on Monday. Mr. Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation last year and was ordered to pay Ms. Carroll $5 million. It was not clear why Mr. Tacopina decided to withdraw, and he declined to comment. His departure from the two cases comes as Mr. Trump enters a year of legal uncertainty. Its timing may depend on whether the federal trial accusing Mr. Trump of illegally trying to subvert the 2020 election is delayed.

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☆ Trump loses bid to move New York hush money criminal case to federal court
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday lost a bid to transfer to federal court his New York state court case related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein's decision denying that effort keeps Trump on track to go to trial March 25, 2024, in Manhattan Supreme Court in the case. "They're throwing everything they can at President Trump to prevent his re-election, because deep down, they know he's going to win. This case belongs in a federal court and we will continue to pursue all legal avenues to move it there." Trump, who is seeking the 2024 Republican nomination, is the first president, former or otherwise, to be charged in a criminal case.

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☆ Trump loses bid for new trial on damages in E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse, defamation case
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

E. Jean Carroll exits the Manhattan Federal Court following the verdict in the civil rape accusation case against former U.S. President Donald Trump, New York City, May 9, 2023. Jurors also found Trump had defamed Carroll in comments last fall denying her allegations. Carroll II is how lawyers in the case refer to the lawsuit that resulted in this verdict. In that other civil lawsuit, Carroll alleges Trump defamed her in 2019, when he denied her claims after she first publicly accused Trump of raping her during the encounter. In Manhattan state court, Trump is accused of falsifying business records in connection with a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

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NEW YORK, June 23 (Reuters) - Donald Trump will deposit $5.55 million with a federal court as security while the former U.S. president appeals a jury verdict that he sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll. Carroll would collect her $5 million if Trump's appeals, including potentially to the Supreme Court, were unsuccessful. Carroll's lawyers agreed to the $5.55 million deposit. She is also seeking punitive damages, after he repeated his denials in a CNN town hall one day after the jury verdict. The case is Carroll v Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

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☆ Trump asks judge to hold retrial or reduce $5 million damages in E. Jean Carroll sexual assault case
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Trump's lawyers argued the $2 million in damages awarded to Carroll are "grossly excessive under applicable case law." Carroll's attorney in a statement scoffed at Trump's argument, and noted the jury unanimously found he sexually abused Carroll. "Trump now argues that, even if he did those things, Ms. Carroll doesn't deserve the $5 million in damages that the jury awarded," said Carroll's lawyer, Robbie Kaplan. Carroll is seeking no less than $10 million from Trump in the pending lawsuit. Trump during the town hall said he did not sexually abuse Carroll and has no idea who Carroll was.

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NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) - Donald Trump must pay $5 million in damages for sexually abusing magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defaming her by branding her a liar, a jury decided on Tuesday. Its six men and three women awarded Carroll $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages, but Trump will not have to pay so long as the case is on appeal. Trump has cited the Carroll trial in campaign fundraising emails as evidence of what he portrays as a Democratic plot. TRUMP MISTAKES CARROLL FOR EX-WIFECarroll testified that she bumped into Trump at Bergdorf's and agreed to help him pick out a gift for another woman. Jurors were tasked with deciding whether Trump raped, sexually abused or forcibly touched Carroll, and were separately asked if Trump defamed Carroll.

☆ Opinion: E. Jean Carroll lawsuit against Trump resurrected my trauma from testifying about a rape
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Opinion Elizabeth Grey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

I became hyper-critical of myself, as if the defense attorney had set up shop in my own mind. Horrible moments of our lives and how defense attorneys frame them can become public fodder. The goal of a defense attorney seems to be to break the survivor giving testimony. I see a screenshot of text of an exchange between Carroll and Joseph Tacopina, defense attorney for Trump. The National Sexual Assault Hotline is 1-800-656-4673 and provided by RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) 24/7.

Summary Trump's lawyer calls the case an 'affront to justice'Jury due to begin deliberations on TuesdayNEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's absence from a trial where writer E. Jean Carroll accuses him of rape and defamation shows that "he did it," a lawyer for Carroll said on Monday, while Trump's lawyer told jurors the case was "outrageous." "He never looked you in the eye and denied raping Ms. Carroll," lawyer Mike Ferrara told jurors as the civil trial in Manhattan federal court neared the end of an eighth day. Jurors also heard from two other women who said Trump sexually assaulted them in separate incidents decades ago. She said Carroll had been unable to sustain a romantic relationship since the alleged rape, and that Trump's public criticism had harmed her client's reputation. Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Will Dunham and Noeleen WalderOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

[1/3] E. Jean Carroll, former U.S. President Donald Trump rape accuser, arrives at Manhattan Federal Court for the continuation of the civil case, in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2023. REUTERS/David 'Dee' DelgadoSummary 'Grab 'em' remark undermines denials, accuser's lawyer saysJury due to deliberate in rape and defamation case on TuesdayNEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's lawyer on Monday called a rape and defamation case brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll against the former U.S. president an affront to the justice system. She has abused this system by bringing a false claim for amongst other things money, status, political reasons," Tacopina said. Trump accuses Carroll of making up the story to drive sales of a 2019 memoir in which she made her claims public. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is not related to Carroll's lawyer, said he expected jurors to begin deliberating on Tuesday.

[1/2] E. Jean Carroll, former U.S. President Donald Trump rape accuser, walks at Manhattan Federal Court following a civil case, in New York City, U.S., April 26, 2023. Trump has so far not attended the trial, which began on April 25, but told reporters in Ireland last Thursday that he "probably" would attend. Kaplan has scheduled closing arguments for Monday, with jurors due to begin deliberations after that. Jurors also heard from two other women who said Trump sexually assaulted them in separate alleged incidents decades ago. In a video deposition played for the jury last Wednesday, Trump denied raping Carroll.

☆ Trump will not testify in New York rape, defamation trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Luc Cohen | Hannah Lang | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., April 27, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump will not testify at a civil trial to challenge claims made by writer E. Jean Carroll that he raped her in the 1990s and later defamed her, after letting a Sunday deadline pass without asking the court to appear. In response to a Reuters request for comment, Tacopina said in a statement what Trump’s legal team had already told the court on Thursday, that the former president would not testify in the case. In a video deposition played for the jury on Wednesday, Trump denied raping Carroll. “It’s the most ridiculous, disgusting story,” Trump said in the video, hunched over a conference table as Carroll’s lawyers presented documents to him.

Ms. Carroll said Mr. Trump asked her to help select a gift for a female friend. Mr. Trump directed her to “go put this on,” she said. Ms. Carroll said Mr. Trump used his weight to pin her and pulled down her tights. Ms. Carroll said she used her knee to push Mr. Trump away and fled. Mr. Tacopina also questioned Ms. Carroll about whether she had screamed for help.

As the civil trial over the writer E. Jean Carroll’s allegation that former President Donald J. Trump raped her neared its end, one of her lawyers focused on the man who was missing from the courtroom. Mr. Trump did not testify on his own behalf or even show up. “He just decided not to be here,” the lawyer, Michael J. Ferrara, told the jury on Monday. The rape allegation, he said, was a complete invention. Mr. Tacopina took an uncompromising line during the two-week civil trial in Manhattan federal court, the first time that Mr. Trump, 76, who has faced years of allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct with women, has had to answer such a claim at trial.

Mr. Trump’s statement came after his lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, had said in court that Mr. Trump would not be coming to testify and that no witnesses would take the stand in Mr. Trump’s defense. It was unclear from Mr. Trump’s statement in Ireland whether he wants to testify or merely to observe the proceedings from the defense table. Judge Kaplan implied that Mr. Trump could face a contempt sanction. After Mr. Trump’s son, Eric, later in the day posted his own statement, on Twitter, criticizing the motivation of a prominent backer of Ms. Carroll’s case, Judge Kaplan implied from the bench that more serious remedies might be called for. Although he did not elaborate, he seemed to suggest Mr. Trump might be violating a federal law that prohibits efforts to corruptly influence or intimidate a juror in a trial.

On Tuesday, Tacopina said the 76-year-old Trump would not testify before the jury in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Trump has not appeared in that court since the trial began last week. Carroll, 79, alleges that Trump raped her in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan after a chance encounter with him there. Trump has also said he would not have even had consensual sex with her because she was not his "type." However, during questioning under oath by Carroll's lawyer for his deposition, Trump mistook Carroll for his former wife Marla Maples in a photo that shows Carroll and her then-husband John Johnson with Trump and his then-wife Ivana Trump.

It was Ms. Martin who advised her not to go to the police, Ms. Carroll testified. Ms. Kaplan said they also expected that Ms. Carroll’s sister would testify. Ms. Kaplan said she planned to finish presenting Ms. Carroll’s case perhaps by midday on Thursday. “She said, ‘Lisa, you are not going to believe what happened to me,’” Ms. Birnbach testified. She said Ms. Carroll sounded “breathless, hyperventilating, emotional.”

The first person called was Lisa Birnbach, a journalist, author and close friend of Ms. Carroll. Ms. Carroll has said she called Ms. Birnbach shortly after the alleged rape. Ms. Carroll on Monday ended two days of cross-examination by Joseph Tacopina, Mr. Trump’s lawyer, about her allegation. Mr. Trump, who has avoided coming to court, has denied all wrongdoing. As she was leaving through a revolving door, Mr. Trump entered and recognized her, she has testified, and persuaded her to help him shop for a gift for a female friend.

☆ Trump's lawyer is asking for a mistrial in the E. Jean Carroll rape case because he thinks the judge hasn't been fair to him
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump's lawyer Joseph Tacopina has requested a mistrial in the E. Jean Carroll rape case. The request accused the court of acting in "pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings." Tacopina said the court has "mischaracterized" evidence in favor of Carroll. Tacopina's request alleges that the court has "bolstered the testimony" of Carroll and allowed her to avoid clarifying information about surveillance cameras. Tacopina's request for a mistrial comes during ongoing testimony from Carroll in her civil trial against Trump, which is happening in Manhattan federal court.

Ms. Carroll, 79, a former magazine columnist, said nothing publicly about the encounter for decades before publishing a memoir in 2019 that accused Mr. Trump of attacking her. Mr. Trump has not appeared in court since the trial began on Tuesday and his lawyer has not said whether or not he will. Mr. Trump’s lawyers have suggested she invented the story to boost sales of her book. They have also contended that she and her friends schemed to hurt Mr. Trump politically. One of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Joseph Tacopina, hinted in his opening statement what other lines of questioning Ms. Carroll might expect on cross-examination.

In a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump asked E. Jean Carroll, the writer who has accused Mr. Trump of raping her nearly three decades ago, whether she had screamed for help. “I’m not a screamer,” Ms. Carroll responded, adding that she was in a panic during the encounter in a dressing room. “You can’t beat up on me for not screaming.”Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, said he was not doing that, but Ms. Carroll, her voice rising, said from the witness stand that women often keep silent about an attack because they fear being asked what they could have done to stop it. “They are always asked, ‘Why didn’t you scream?’” Ms. Carroll said. “I’m telling you, he raped me, whether I screamed or not,” she declared.

On Wednesday, the judge said Mr. Trump’s out-of-court statements seemed “entirely inappropriate” and suggested Mr. Trump might be trying to influence members of the jury. “I will speak to my client and ask him to refrain from any further posts regarding this case,” Mr. Tacopina said. Mr. Tacopina said the day before that he did not yet know whether Mr. Trump would take the witness stand. Judge Kaplan said that he wanted an answer this week, adding that not knowing was an “imposition” on security and court staff. Ms. Carroll wrote that he pushed her against a dressing room wall, pulled down her tights, opened his pants and then forced himself upon her.

"I'm here because Trump raped me," Carroll testified. Trump's posts mentioned two issues that Judge Lewis Kaplan had warned parties in the trial not to mention to jurors. Carroll alleges Trump assaulted her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in or around 1996. In his first Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump wrote, "The E. Jean Carroll case, Ms. Bergdorf Goodman, is a made up SCAM. "Just look at her CNN interview before & after the commercial break - Like a different person," Trump wrote, referring to an interview Carroll gave CNN about the lawsuit.

The federal trial began Tuesday for a civil lawsuit by a New York writer E. Jean Carroll, who accuses former President Donald Trump of raping her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. "Donald Trump assaulted her in 1996 and defamed her when he said she made it up." "Donald Trump assaulted Carroll but you will also hear that she is not the only one he has assaulted," the attorney said, referring to other women who have claimed Trump groped them against their will. "People have strong feelings about Donald Trump and it's OK to feel that way, Tacopina said. "It's OK to hate Donald Trump and there is a time and a place to express that.

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