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E. Jean Carroll's lawyers want the judge to instruct jurors that there's no evidence in the record that a Law & Order SVU episode referring to a rape inside Bergdorf Goodman "actually exists."

The proposed instruction.

Background: lawandcrime.com/live-trials/e-…

During cross-ex, Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina grilled E. Jean Carroll about an email she received about the episode. She denied watching it.

So that email, her attorneys say, is "hearsay." It's also the only exhibit about that episode.

Here's the upshot.

Context:

In 2012, Law & Order SVU ran an episode, "Theater Tricks," in which a character had a line describing a rape *fantasy* inside a Bergdorf Goodman.

The episode didn't involve a rape in that store.

Carroll's lawyers note the only exhibit citing it is a 'hearsay' email.

So any evidence about the existence, plot and dialogue of that episode isn't before the jury, the argument goes.

We'll see how Judge Kaplan rules before closing arguments.

Trump's lawyers will surely respond.

Read the full letter requesting the jury instruction deflating the Law & Order episode in question here. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Tl;dr—

The episode exists.

It's less similar to Carroll's case than advertised.

But Trump's team probably didn't adequately prove it exists before resting their case — so they might not be able to tell the jury it exists.