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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 witness ....
What i saw by listening to this trial and reading transcripts, the defense team felt that the judge was biased in the rulings, and numerous pretrial rulings that could form the basis for appeal and one of the theories of the case was that this case continued to go forward because of financing, financing from someone in the democrat party that wanted this case to go forward because of their hatred for donald trump. the defense was allowed to depose e. jean carroll before trial to specifically ask her about that, but the judge ruled that it would not come into this trial, and there was some testimony that danced around that, but i think that will be a major issue on appeal and whether the appeal will go anywhere, we don t know, but the appeals will take a while, and harvey weinstein s conviction was appeal and it is still alive and it is going to the higher ....
Attorneys. you know, this was a very cordial trial, despite what is at stake here, and despite the allegations. we saw that through to the finish. there was, as you know, at least amount of respect there about how this was, you know, frankly a hard-fought victory. 27 years, but also in court over these nine days of testimony and deliberations. it was a quick deliberation, just a little more than two and a half hours of the jury had this case after hearing closing arguments yesterday. a pretty quick verdict on this case. as you left, i m told she ll have a statement coming soon. you know, certainly a big moment for her. there wasn t a ton of emotion displayed. she did show a smiling. she was happy, she did exchange aside hug with another one of your attorneys before she left the, court jim. paula, you have been covering not only this case but so many of the other legal challenges that the former president is facing. just a few weeks ago that he was presented with 34 ....
Concealed and that something that you will get in mob cases and mafia trials and not in a civil trial especially one involving someone who is supposed to be of, you know, high character because he is a presidential candidate, but you are seeing it here. so this judge, judge kaplan was so worried that trump supporters would attack the jury or try to tamper with the jurors that he isolated them, and he made them private just like you would do in a mob trial. now that the case is over, he is still worried about their safety which is telling you a lot about the political environment that we are in. great point. it is a worrisome point. he protected them, and he stepped in to protect them, because he felt a need to protect them. as we have seen so often with anyone who has publicly opposed to former president or even taken steps to go after him legally as we have seen with the officials in georgia and officials with the former special council or the special ....
Will get her money. and what do you think that the appeal would look like from trump s lawyers? well, they have to scrub the trial record, and the appeal basis is going to be any errors that the judge made on any rulings of the evidentiary matters and the instructions to the jury and that sort of thing, so they have to pore over the record and see what they say are errors of law by the judge, and that is the main basis, and also, the appeal of saying that no reasonable jury would have found this way, and would have issued this verdict and against the weight of the evidence, and that is a long shot especially in the case where all of the evidence is on one side, and it would be hard to say that no reasonable jury would have been found this way, and so they will be looking for those errors burk nothing is standing out to me as far as the review of the trial. and our kara scannell came out of the court, and the primary player is e. jean ....