Mr. Trump will likely have DNA swabbed for the state DNA database. How might his DNA be used locally and nationally?
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Former President
Donald Trump was indicted on March 30, 2023 related to payments made to adult film star, Stormy Daniels, ahead of the 2016 election. It is reported that Mr. Trump will be treated essentially like any other defendant, meaning that he is
likely to be fingerprinted, photographed for a mugshot, and swabbed for the state DNA database. If convicted, Trump’s DNA would be placed in criminal databases.
Trump is currently being
sued by E. Jean Carroll, an author and former Elle magazine columnist, who has accused Mr. Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s. Ms. Carroll has a dress she was wearing during that incident that is stained with a DNA sample she claims is from Trump. Ms. Carroll’s legal team requested a DNA sample from Mr. Trump for comparison and
he refused until after the deadline to disclose evidence and one day after both parties filed a joint order agreeing that they would not call any DNA experts as witnesses. So, his DNA sample could not be used in the upcoming rape trial in April. However, if Ms. Carroll’s team somehow received access to Trump’s DNA results, it is possible that they could determine if the decades old sample on Ms. Carroll’s dress matches that of Mr. Trump – even if it cannot be used in court.
Ms. Carroll is
one of 19 women who have accused Trump of sexual assault, but the only person who has accused him of rape thus far (aside from
his first wife, who said that Trump raped her,
but not in a literal or criminal sense). If another sexual assault accuser had a saved DNA sample, it is possible that the sample could be used for comparison against Mr. Trump’s DNA sample. There is a
state-by-state statute of limitations for rape, so whether charges could be brought may depend on where such a crime was committed. However,
the majority of states allow for statute of limitations to pause or extend when DNA evidence is available. New York State has no statute of limitation for rape, but a limitation of 5 years for other sexual assault charges – although there is a DNA exemption to the statute of limitations if there is a DNA match.
Donald Trump has denied raping the writer E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room of a New York department story in the mid-1990s.
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Trial in April is adjourned.
A New York
federal judge on Monday postponed indefinitely the previously scheduled April trial for the first of two
lawsuits accusing former President
Donald Trump of defaming the writer
E. Jean Carroll after she claimed he
raped her in the mid-1990s.
Judge
Lewis Kaplan also denied a joint request by lawyers for
Trump and Carroll to consolidate her two pending civil lawsuits against Trump into a single trial.
Kaplan in a brief order wrote that the attorneys overestimated the purported benefits of judicial economy and of avoiding potentially inconsistent rulings by combining the cases in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
He also noted that the trial previously scheduled to start April 10, for the case filed in 2019, "could prove unnecessary" if the federal appeals court that is currently reviewing the case rules that the suit is barred by law.
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