Key Takeaways:

• The choose denied a retrial in Cardi B’s civil assault case, citing lack of jury intimidation.
• Cardi’s viral pen toss exterior the courthouse turned a focus of the retrial request.
• The courtroom emphasised that the jury’s verdict was primarily based on proof.

Cardi B is now 2–0 in her legal battle with Emani Ellis, who claimed the Grammy-winning rapper scratched her face exterior a Beverly Hills OB-GYN’s workplace in 2018. On Friday (Dec. 5), Los Angeles County Judge Ian Fusselman denied the safety guard’s request for a brand new trial.

According to music/music-news/cardi-b-security-guard-trial-win-1235478749/”>Rolling Stone, Judge Fusselman discovered no grounds to overturn the sooner unanimous ruling. In her movement, Ellis argued that jurors have been intimidated by the “Pretty & Petty” artist after she threw a pen to the bottom when YouTuber Donat Ricketts requested about her then-looming being pregnant rumors exterior the courthouse.

Footage confirmed Cardi snatching the pen she was going to make use of to signal an autograph and tossing it towards him. “Stop disrespecting me,” she stated to Ricketts. “Don’t disrespect me.”

In a sworn declaration submitted on Thursday (Dec. 4), Ricketts claimed the pen bounced off the bottom and struck him. A juror did witness the exchange and later requested about it, however Ricketts stated he was “not planning to sue.” Ellis argued that the second might have “intimidated” the jury, however Judge Fusselman identified it might have really helped her place.

“We’re speculating about how it impacted them,” he stated. “Wouldn’t that tend to help your case, rather than hurt it? Isn’t that why you wanted the jury to find out about it? You came into court and said, ‘I want [the] jury to know this just happened.’”

Ultimately, Judge Fusselman stated the jurors cleared Cardi primarily based solely on the proof. “They were free to ask any questions or make any comments, and they didn’t,” he added. “I don’t find that anything outside the courtroom had any impact on the jury’s deliberations.”

After the civil trial, which Cardi received in September, she reiterated that she “did not touch that woman.” Speaking with reporters, the mother of four stated, “I did not touch that girl. I didn’t lay my hands on that girl.”