Tasha Okay claimed she ought to’ve been allowed to deliver up Cardi B’s gang ties at their defamation trial.
The vlogger continued her efforts to enchantment a $4 million court docket loss to Cardi B. Tasha Okay’s lawyer Olga Izmaylova argued a Georgia choose wrongfully prevented her shopper from introducing gang affiliations as character proof within the trial.
“To ensure that the jury to find out whether or not [Cardi B] has been defamed, positioned in a false gentle, and emotionally misery, the jury should find out about [her] gang affiliation as a result of it’s a particularly related a part of who [she] is,” Izmaylova defined. “[Tasha K] made the identical argument in response to [Cardi B’s] request to exclude [the rapper’s] personal social media feedback. The district court docket prevented this proof from coming in.”
She added, “The district court docket utilized the inaccurate authorized normal by figuring out that character proof was irrelevant and inadmissible in a defamation motion and, due to this fact, the district court docket has made a transparent error of judgment and must be overturned.”
A jury discovered Tasha Okay responsible for defamation, invasion of privateness and intentional infliction of emotional misery in January. However her legal professional prompt the jury didn’t hear the entire related proof about Cardi B within the case. Izmaylova believed Tasha Okay, whose actual identify is Latasha Kebe, deserved a brand new trial.
“[Tasha K has] proven a considerable prejudicial impact as a result of it’s extraordinarily probably that the erroneously excluded character proof would have impacted the jury’s verdict, had the jury been capable of think about it,” Izmaylova contended. “The truth that a jury unanimously reached the conclusion that [Cardi B] was telling the reality and [Tasha K was] mendacity doesn’t reveal that [the latter] acted with precise malice.”
The lawyer concluded, “This Court docket ought to reverse the Amended Judgment and remand this case for a brand new trial.”