As you know a totally biased jury found Trump guilty of sexual battery but not rape and then went on to award $5 million in damages. I haven’t seen the breakdown on damages but have to believe it was mostly punitive damages because I don’t see how a woman who was not raped, according to the jury, but maybe touched without her consent suffered that amount of damages. It couldn’t be that traumatic since she claimed to have been raped by most everyone in the city. She has an AOC complex. And she was way less credible than Ballsy Ford.

I am familiar with lesser included charges in criminal cases but have never heard of them in civil cases. That doesn’t necessarily mean anything because civil tort trials are not what I did, but I spent a little time trying to find out about lesser included charges in civil cases and every search came back dealing with criminal cases.

In criminal cases you have things like first degree murder requiring premeditation but maybe the jury finds it wasn’t premeditated but spur of the moment or unintentional but reckless. The judge can charge the jury if requested that if they don’t find premeditation, they could find 2nd degree murder or manslaughter depending on what they decide.

Like I said, I have never heard of it, but it must be a thing because otherwise the judge couldn’t have done it. No judge wants to make up law in a high profile Trump case.

But that brings me to my last point until more is known, and that is how could the jury find that Trump didn’t rape her but conclude that he defamed her by denying he raped her? If you can figure that out, let me know