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    Carroll v. Trump: Battery and defamation case comes to trial

    by Peter Grier Apr 24, 2023 5 minutes

    Former President Donald Trump’s legal problems could deepen this week with the scheduled opening of a New York trial on allegations he sexually assaulted journalist E. Jean Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room some 30 years ago.

    The case involves civil charges, unlike the historic criminal indictment of Mr. Trump earlier this month by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Civil trials adjudicate disputes between people or organizations and don’t result in time in prison or on parole. In the vast majority of cases judgments against defendants result in money changing hands.

    The former president has emphatically denied the alleged assault and suggested Ms. Carroll invented it to increase sales of a 2019 book in which she described the incident.

    But with trials and pending trials beginning to multiply, Mr. Trump and his lawyers face the prospect of lurching from

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