US District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday laid out the reason for his “swift denial” of Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba’s “unusual midtrial mistrial request” in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against the former president, Politico reports. “The motion made no sense,” Kaplan wrote in his opinion, according to the report, “explaining that Habba had known for more than a year that Carroll had said that she deleted some emails making death threats against her and yet waited until trial to act surprised and request a mistrial.” Kaplan emphasized, “Granting a mistrial would have been e…