Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump rested their cases Thursday, clearing the way for a federal jury to deliberate next week whether the former president raped the writer in a Manhattan department-store dressing room in the 1990s.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers previously said they wouldn’t call any witnesses in the case, and that the former president wouldn’t testify. On Thursday, after Mr. Trump’s lawyers rested their case, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said that if the former president changed his mind about testifying, he could make a motion to do so before 5 p.m. Sunday.