I thought we already had the verdict, they were just deciding damages?
There could be more added on along with the decided damages. They might be calling the damages a verdict too.
The trial concerns remaining claims of conspiracy, insurance fraud and falsifying business records.
The trial concerns remaining claims of conspiracy, insurance fraud and falsifying business records.
Then it will get appealed over and over for years.
Probably not. He has 30 days after judgement to appeal to the New York Court of Appeals (highest in NY), whose decisions are final and binding on the lower courts.
After that, I’m not sure if he would be able to appeal to the Second Circuit and finally SCOTUS (I simply don’t know), but I seriously doubt SCOTUS would take up this particular case. They’re Federalist Society goons, not Trump zealots, and they’re not obligated to take up his case on appeal.
Either way, his business is on borrowed time, and he likely only has one to two appeals left.
Two major appeals in a historically significant case could easily take 5-7 years to process.
This is the civil fraud case. I think you’re getting confused with his several other legal woes.
Is this historically significant? Other than Trump is an ex-President, isn’t this just an ordinary fraud case?
Yes, this is run of the mill civil fraud.
We sure do have an interesting notion of “justice” in this country. Seeing donnie get any kind of punishment will take years, and he won’t lose his freedom or his life.
But if a poor Black man were to be accused of selling loose cigarettes, or using a counterfeit $20 bill…watch out.
Or if he’s just walking down the stree while matching a suspect in the area(another black person regardless of gender)
