Two weeks ago, a federal judge rejected former President Donald Trump’s motion for a new trial and upheld the $5 million jury verdict in the civil case brought by E. Jean Carroll against Trump for sexual assault in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
In doing so, the judge who presided over the trial stated that, consistent with the evidence presented in the case, Trump “raped [Ms. Carroll] … as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.” Why was this an issue? Because, unlike many other states, counties, and the federal rape statute, New York employs an extremely limited definition of what constitutes rape.
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