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NEW YORK — A federal judge on Wednesday, February 15, 2023, rejected Donald Trump’s offer to provide a DNA sample in the E. Jean Carroll case, calling the move too late in a discovery fight that had already run for years. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan denied the request and kept the case on track for an April 25 trial. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/18559887d50aaf6300ad6658c3872282?utm_source=openai))

Trump’s lawyers had floated the DNA offer on February 10 as part of an exchange tied to other materials in the record. Kaplan said the proposal came after the court-ordered discovery window had closed and after both sides had long had the chance to pursue the issue. In his order, he said Trump had not shown good cause to reopen discovery for the dispute over the missing pages of the DNA report. ([courthousenews.com](https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/carroll-trump-dna-discovery-order-southern-district-new-york.pdf?utm_source=openai))

The DNA question had been in the case for years. Carroll’s team had sought a sample from Trump earlier in the litigation, while Trump had not agreed to provide one during the discovery period. Kaplan wrote that the latest request arrived too close to trial and would have complicated a case that was already set for a jury. ([courthousenews.com](https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/carroll-trump-dna-discovery-order-southern-district-new-york.pdf?utm_source=openai))

The ruling did not decide Carroll’s underlying claims or say what any jury should make of the evidence. It did, however, shut down this particular pretrial detour and leave the April 25 schedule intact. Other motions and disputes could still surface, but the court was not willing to reset the clock for a belated DNA fight. ([law.justia.com](https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1%3A2022cv10016/590045/56/?utm_source=openai))