Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has asked the judge in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against the former president to declare a mistrial, arguing that Ms. Carroll failed to preserve key evidence by deleting emails that purportedly included death threats.
Trump attorney Alina Habba made the request to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in a letter dated Jan. 19, in which she asked him to toss the case because the trial was ruined when Ms. Carroll admitted in court testimony that she had deleted an unknown number of emails and social media messages containing death threats.
Ms. Habba said Ms. Carroll “failed to take reasonable steps to preserve relevant evidence. In fact, she did much worse—she actively deleted evidence which she now attempts to rely on in establishing her damages claim.
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has asked for a mistrial in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against him. They argue that Carroll failed to preserve important evidence by deleting emails containing death threats. Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, submitted a letter to the judge, requesting the case be thrown out because Carroll admitted in court that she had deleted several emails and social media messages containing death threats. Habba claims that Carroll not only failed to preserve evidence but actively deleted it, which undermines her damages claim.
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