Cardi B says the security guard requesting a new trial is basing her request on “patently false” claims ranging from absurd to “complete fiction”
The security guard who failed to convince a jury Cardi B assaulted her outside a Beverly Hills doctor’s office is asking for a new trial – but Cardi’s lawyers are blasting the request as “absurd” and “entirely frivolous.”
In a withering response filed late Wednesday, lawyers for the “Outside” rapper wrote that Ellis “fails to establish any permitted grounds” for a new trial in her motion filed Oct. 31. They said her request was based on “patently false” allegations ranging from “gratuitous” to “complete fiction.” Urging the court to reject it, they argued “speculation, knowingly false statements, and inaction are not grounds for a new trial.”
Ellis’ lawyer, Ron Rosen Janfaza, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. In his motion, he claimed his client deserves a new trial due to alleged errors by the court and the claim that jurors might have been present outside the courthouse on Sept. 2 when a gossip blogger shouted questions at Cardi regarding her current relationship and pregnancy, and she responded by tossing a pen at the ground in apparent frustration. The incident was caught on video.
“Plaintiff requests additional time to investigate this further. Jurors would be intimidated if they had viewed this type of conduct,” Rosen Janfaza wrote. In their opposition filed Wednesday, Cardi’s lawyers argued...
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