Donald Trump sexually assaulted a woman, brazenly, in a high-end department store, lied about it, and maliciously defamed his victim. To put it mildly, Trump was likely not the easiest client to represent, and his cause not the easiest to defend. But the case warrants a post-mortem to assess the tools of evidence law that may have contributed to the verdict. In terms of the power of other acts proof, it was the breadth of Federal Rule of Evidence 415 that gave the plaintiff tremendous corroborative proof. No requirement of similar modus operandi; no time-span limitation; no heightened burden of proof.

Source: The Guardian May 25, 2023 17:05 UTC