Jury begins 2nd day of deliberations
Jurors have returned for a second day of deliberations to determine what damages Rudy Giuliani will have to pay Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss for targeting them with defamatory comments.
In closing arguments yesterday, an attorney for the mother and daughter asked the jury to award each woman $24 million.
"Send a message" that powerful figures can't "assassinate the character of ordinary people," plaintiffs' attorney Michael Gottlieb told jurors.
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Giuliani attorney Joseph Sibley conceded that his client had wronged Freeman and Moss, but implored jurors to levy a more measured penalty than the "catastrophic" sum requested by the plaintiffs.
"Send a message to America that we can come together with compassion and sympathy," Sibley said. "And I think we need that."