Legal experts skewered Alina Habba’s “comedy of bumbling errors” in Trump defamation trial
Former President Donald Trump’s appeal of the $83.3 million verdict in the defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll is unlikely to succeed, legal experts say.
“Let me ruin the suspense for everyone. Trump doesn’t have an appeal,” Nashville lawyer Brian Manookian argued Friday. “I know the talking heads on TV who have never tried a case or appealed a jury verdict have to mention it. Here’s why it isn’t going to fly.”
A person must “preserve a reversible error at the trial level” in order to have a case with merit on appeal, Manookian explained, ultimately blaming Trump’s lack thereof on his legal team in the case.
“This is why you hire competent counsel. You need someone who actually knows the rules of evidence and procedure,” he said. “Alina Habba had no clue what was occurring throughout the trial. She not only failed to preserve any remote grounds for appeal, like a moron, she repeatedly and unintentionally waived them over and over.”
Looks like typical DJT operating procedures. Hire incompetence and then blame the system for their incompetence. I used to do high stakes litigation. We would have an attorney on our trial team whose only responsibility was preserving error. I wonder if DJT will sue her for malpractice. That would probably make her extra sad for servicing his tiny mushroom.
We gotta end small-dick hate, homedog.
It’s not small dick hate. It’s calling out the shallowest thing that would piss trump off. It’s especially poetic as he makes exaggerated claims about his persons all the time, including what we know is a complete exaggeration on the size of his dick (thanks Stormy).
Any other person I’m in total agreement with you.
Just not this one. Not after he fucking mocked a disabled person on live TV and suffered zero consequences.
This is all we’ve got right now.
Being one of the lesser-endowed, I’ll allow it.
Body shaming isn’t acceptable just because it’s someone you don’t like.
I get the same vibe. I don’t care about DJTs hurt feelings for being called “small dick”, but I do recognize that there are people out there who actually are “lesser endowed”, and its gotta be frustrating to see it used as an insult all the time. Maybe having a “small dick” isn’t the greatest, but its also totally acceptable and people shouldn’t be made to feel negatively about something they really had no control over. My two cents lol
Body-shaming of people who don’t overcompensate and claim the exact opposite of their particular issue, you mean?
Like, when a 100% blind guy wants to take up cataract surgery because of their acute eyesight, you’re gonna say “dawg, it’s maybe not your thing”. And if they persist with full-page ads as to their keen eyesight, then we have DJT.
It’s a yes from me.
I don’t hate small dicks. I hate people who act like massive assholes because they have small dicks.
“I don’t hate (n-word), I just hate people who act like (n-word).”
IDK buddy, I’m like a shorter person and don’t really internalize any “Napoleon Complex” because being short doesn’t make me an asshole like my tiny penis does.
We should be kinder to the people who want to kill us.
They hate you because when you make your analogy it’s suddenly offensive, lol hypocrites
but it’s an apples to apples comparison.
Both are vulgar language that references a part of the human body that can’t be changed.
Would he have some kind of case for appeal due to incompetent counsel?
No. In a criminal case, but not in a civil lawsuit.