Trump Rape Trial?

[Dirty Socialist]

Is Trump's rape trial still supposed to start Friday, or has that been dropped?

[yeoman6987]

1. Good question. Since not a peep has been mentioned, I'd say it's not Friday

[jodymarie aimee]

10. There have been many PEEPS

She got scared in October and no trial. Death threats. Lisa Bloom could not calm her. She ran.

[Laffy Kat]

2. Mysteriously dropped right before election. nt

[ozone82]

3. It Was Dropped

back in November.

[dhol82]

4. From what I heard the woman was receiving death threats and chose not to proceed.

[malaise]

5. Maybe he'll settle

like the settlement for his fraud university

[pnwmom]

14. It is possible to settle outside of court without anyone else ever knowing.

I bet that's what happened.

[malaise]

17. I don't know the answer to that one

but with Groper Don the Con you can't rule anything out

[jberryhill]

20. Do you suppose Bloom got 45% or did she discount

The customary 30-45% here would need to be spit three ways, since Bloom, Meagher and Mason aren't in the same firm (or indeed the same state).

Bloom would, of course, have advised her client on how much this case was worth. How much bank do you suppose Bloom made?

[jberryhill]

6. There was never a trial scheduled in the first place

The suit was withdrawn on November 4.

The only thing which ever happened is that it was filed - as anything can be filed with a court for $350 - and was never served on the defendant.

When a suit is filed, the court will automatically schedule a status conference date to find out (a) if it has been served and (b) if so, what sort of schedule the parties want to follow for the rest of the proceeding.

Because people are generally ignorant of how courts work, the perfunctory mechanics of the initial conference date got blown up into "RAPE TRIAL BEGINS IN DECEMBER" by people who either didn't know any better or were interested in deliberately misleading others into believing there was some sort of trial which was supposed to occur.

More background here:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/07/21/trump-rape-accusers-turn-on-each-other.html

[cwydro]

13. You're the only one who ever has a sensible answer on this nonsense.

Somehow no one pays attention.

But thanks anyway.

I remember when you broke it down in a very understandable way a couple months ago.

[malaise]

18. He really knows his stuff

[pnwmom]

15. But there is the possibility that her planned news conference days before

the election suddenly made DT amenable to an out of court settlement.

We will never know, but the timing was very interesting to me.

[jberryhill]

19. There are, of course, a number of alternative explanations

I'm sure that if one is certain of the underlying truth, then circumstances suggesting otherwise have an explanation.

[Bud359]

7. it was never a possibility

The statute of limitations ended more than a decade ago. Kid became an adult in 1998, and NY has a five-year SoL on torts.

[NobodyHere]

9. It was a civil trial

Not sure if there's a statute of limitations on that.

Anyways it was dropped before the election.

[jberryhill]

12. Yes, there are statute of limitations on civil actions

You can't sue someone for a contract they breached unpteen years ago, etc.

[WhiteTara]

8. I think the threats against the victim

were sufficient to shut her up.

[Ilsa]

11. The victim was getting death threats against her family

and herself. These loose cannons have shown themselves to be dangerous.

[Bucky]

16. It's been moved over to the EPA