yes, and at any moment, we are awaiting this verdict, and obviously a huge case, and one of the many legal challenges that the former president is facing, and perhaps on the most personal of the many women that have accused him of sexual assault, and this going to court, and not a criminal case, but nonetheless, potentially accountability of the many accusations he has had against him. certainly will be, and what we find out, it could be critical. yes. and i want to bring in jean casarez to join us. jean, as we are awaiting what the jury is going to determine here if the former president is liable or not in this civil case. what are you looking for, and are you surprised how quickly this jury has come to a verdict? it has come back very quickly, and i have covered sod many sexual assault cases for cnn from harvey weinstein to bill cosby and two cases, and also in that exact courtroom several cases including kevin spacey and when i saw the prior bad act witnesses com
million for defamation and battery. yeah, i m not surprised. now once they found that trump did it, then they are going to find that he committed defamation. because afterwards he said that she didn t do it, and she is a liar and one went with the other, but as far as the verdict, when you saw this quick verdict, it looked like a quick compromise, they said, all right, resolve it by, yeah, by splitting the baby and do the second count which is not rape, but it is something serious, and it requires the touching of a sexual or intimate part of another without that person s consent. so that is something worn as an albatross around the president s neck around the campaign. he can say that the judge was biased or the jury is biased, but at some point they will say, this is your candidate for president, because he is liable
instructions and deliberated for 2 1/2 hours only. what does it say to you? well, we will find out soon enough, but usually, if it is an uneven case if one side has much more evidence than the other side, then a quick verdict is favoring the side with the evidence. so they would find for e. jean carroll here, because that is the weight of the evidence, and maybe a juror or two stretching out the deliberation, but if nobody did that, they are going with the weight of the evidence, and that is a finding for e. jean carroll. and jennifer in the span of weeks then, we would have a former president indicted by manhattan district attorney of course, and the former president, and again, we don t know the outcome of this. we will shortly. but we will know, because it is being read in the courtroom, and this is remarkable context here. and yes, the verdict is being read right now, and the jury is in the courtroom right now, jennifer, so we should be
by a preponderance of the evidence that more than likely trump did it, but it had to be before a unanimous jury and this is still a important verdict. and jean casarez, there were varying degrees to what the jury could have decided about his conduct, rape, sexual misconduct or forceable touching, what are you seeing? this is a victory for the defendant, but e.g. carroll described in great detail how he raped her, and she called two friends and said, he did this to me, and this is rape the friends told her, and a lot of testimony in that, and this jury did not
caps on social media saying i have absolutely no idea who this woman is, and he calls the verdict a disgrace and calling it a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time. as brianna was noting there, it is both the liable findings, and remember it is a civil and not criminal case, and the compensatory and punitive damages amounting to close the $5 million. kara scannell has been covering trial since the beginning, and k kara, it seems that not long ago, we were talking about the jury going into deliberations, and here we are under three hours of deliberations they came to the verdict. you were in the courtroom as the verdict was read. sorry, i am joining you. we have both kara scannell and paula reid covering trial. so, give us a view from the courtroom as the viewers would benefit from that.