As a civil trial accusing the former US president of civil battery and defamation continues, Donald Trump has demanded a mistrial - something the judge overseeing the case has denied.
The businessman argued that Judge Lewis Kaplan had made "pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings" against him. A letter filed overnight on Monday, May 1, reportedly saw Trump's attorney, Joe Tacopina, saying he would ask Kaplan to "correct the record for each and every instance in which the Court has mischaracterised the facts of this case to the jury", or provide him greater leeway in cross examining the claimant.
Former columnist E Jean Carroll, 79, has accused Trump, 76, of defamation as well as sexually assaulting and raping her in a department store dressing room in 1996, something he denies. She said the attack happened on the sixth floor of Bergdorf Goodman in New York City.
