{"id":8551,"date":"2025-11-13T21:45:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/cardi-b-responds-to-assault-accusers-absurd-request-for-a-new-trial\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:45:20","slug":"cardi-b-responds-to-assault-accusers-absurd-request-for-a-new-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/cardi-b-responds-to-assault-accusers-absurd-request-for-a-new-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B Responds to Assault Accuser’s ‘Absurd’ Request for a New Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tCardi B\u2019s lawyers are firing back at a \u201cbaseless\u201d demand for a new trial in the failed assault case filed by Emani Ellis \u2014 including the accuser\u2019s suggestion that Cardi \u201cintimidated\u201d jurors by throwing a pen at a reporter on the courthouse steps.<\/p>\n

\n\tEllis is seeking a re-do after jurors easily rejected her civil lawsuit claiming Cardi B (Belcalis Alm\u00e1nzar) assaulted her during an altercation at a Los Angeles doctor\u2019s office in 2018. But in a response filed in court Wednesday (Nov. 12), Cardi\u2019s lawyers said the idea of a second trial should be \u201crejected out of hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cPlaintiff Emani Ellis\u2019 motion for new trial is entirely frivolous,\u201d Cardi\u2019s attorneys write. \u201cShe fails to establish any permitted grounds for a new trial. Instead, she repeats her counsel\u2019s accusations of misconduct that are both false and not grounds for a new trial.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn seeking a new trial last month, Ellis\u2019 lawyer cited a viral incident in which Cardi was filmed throwing a pen at someone in a courthouse media scrum after he\u2019d asked a provocative question about her pregnancy. According to Ellis, the disturbance might have been \u201cwitnessed by the jury\u201d and could have impacted the trial: \u201cJurors would be intimidated if they had viewed this type of conduct.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBut in Wednesday\u2019s response, Cardi\u2019s lawyers sharply criticized that argument as hearsay and unfounded guessing \u2014 and said that Ellis had never raised it during the actual trial: \u201cPlaintiff\u2019s counsel\u2019s speculation, knowingly false statements, and inaction are not grounds for a new trial,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tEllis\u2019 attorney, Ron Rosen Janfaza<\/strong>, did not immediately return a request for comment on Thursday (Nov. 13).<\/p>\n

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\n\tEllis sued Cardi in 2020, claiming the star had assaulted her when she worked as a security guard at a Beverly Hills gynecologist\u2019s office in 2018, when Cardi was four months pregnant with her first child. Ellis said the star cursed and spat at her and scratched her cheek with a sharp acrylic nail, requiring plastic surgery to repair the wound.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt an August trial, Cardi said she never touched Ellis. During two days on the witness stand, the rapper testified that she and Ellis had a verbal-only altercation after she realized that the guard was recording her \u2014 a major concern, Cardi said, because she was still concealing her pregnancy from the public.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rapper said it was Ellis who got aggressive during the encounter, backing her into a corner and refusing to leave her alone. Cardi also said her nails weren\u2019t capable of cutting anyone, and the jury saw a photo of her at the NBA All-Star Game the week of this incident, sporting square nails that she described as less than an inch long.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter less than an hour of deliberations, the jury unanimously found that Ellis did not prove her legal claims of assault, battery, infliction of emotional distress and negligence. And on the courthouse steps a short while later, Cardi warned against future \u201cfrivolous\u201d lawsuits.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI work hard for my money for my kids and for people I take care of, so don\u2019t you ever think that you gonna sue me, and I\u2019m just gonna settle and just give you my money,\u201d the star said at the time. \u201cIt\u2019s not gonna happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the wake of the verdict, Cardi\u2019s lawyers have asked the judge to punish Rosen Janfaza, Ellis\u2019 attorney, for alleged misconduct during the trial. Seeking so-called sanctions against him, they say he repeatedly violated court orders, including by asking Cardi on the witness stand if she had any gang affiliations despite a ruling that such information was irrelevant to the case.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his own court filings, Rosen Janfaza has denied breaking any rules willfully, saying he was inexperienced at trial and was \u201csimply asking questions as best he could in an effort to zealously advocate.\u201d But the judge ruled last month that the attorney must now \u201cshow cause\u201d why he should not face sanctions. A hearing is currently set for next month.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeparate from the debate over misconduct, Ellis moved for a new trial last month, raising a slew of different arguments. Some were typical of a post-trial motion, like her argument that the verdict was not supported by evidence; others were very much not, like the pen-throwing claim, or an accusation that Rosen Janfaza had had a physical altercation with Cardi\u2019s lawyers in a courthouse hallway.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAll of these actions combined had an affect the outcome of this case,\u201d Ellis\u2019 attorney wrote in that filing. \u201cPlaintiff is entitled to a new trial under the circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Wednesday\u2019s response, Cardi\u2019s lawyers said Ellis\u2019 request for a new trial \u201cdoes not withstand even cursory review and must be denied.\u201d They also denied any physical encounter, saying that \u201cMr. Rosen Janfaza provides no elaboration because his accusation is patently false.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCardi\u2019s team also repeatedly alluded to the judge\u2019s potential sanctions against Rosen Janfaza \u2014 suggesting that his eye-catching claims in seeking a new trial were \u201cjust another gratuitous attempt\u201d by him to \u201cbesmirch defense counsel\u201d and \u201cdistract\u201d from the looming possible punishment order.<\/p>\n


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