Foggy wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 3:47 pm
Foggy wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 3:11 pm
Okay, now I owe a huge apology to Maybenaut for not improving the poll.
I'm sorry, Maybenaut.
To further explain, she suggested that I add "not liable for rape, but liable for sexual assault/battery" as options in the poll, with the various monetary amounts. But I was being lazy, and I wanted the jury to find him liable for rape, and it only would have taken a minute or two to get the poll done correctly.
It shoulda been:
1. Liable for rape, award > $1 million
2. Liable for rape, award < $1 million
3. Liable for sexual battery, award > $1 million
4. Liable for sexual battery, award < $1 million
5. Defense verdict
... maybe some others, you can have 10 options in a poll.
I repeat, sorry, Maybenaut.
Apology accepted. Not to put too fine a pint on it, but the poll also didn’t address defamation, which was a separate potential (and as it turns out, actual) basis for damages.
I voted liable for rape, award less than $1M. If some lesser offense had been an option, I would have picked that. But I could not imagine any jury finding that Trump had assaulted her in some way, and then only awarding nominal damages. So I knew there’d be damages if they found he’d battered her in some way, I just low-balled the estimate.
I
could imagine a jury awarding nominal damages for the defamation claim given the issues she was having with Elle.
But I don’t mind being wrong. It won’t be the last time, and if I’m going to be wrong about something, I’m so glad it’s this.
"Hey! We left this England place because it was bogus, and if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto, we'll just be bogus too!" -- Thomas Jefferson