Joe Tacopina, lawyer of former U.S. President Donald Trump, makes opening statements before U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan and former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll during a civil trial where Carroll accuses the former U.S. president in a civil lawsuit of raping her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and of defamation, in New York, U.S., April 25, 2023 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg