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Former President Donald Trump’s civil judgments in New York are a big deal, NYU law professor Melissa Murray told MSNBC’s Ari Melber on Friday — and there are knock-on effects even beyond the amount of money he has to pay. Trump was held liable for $83.3 million in the defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, and $464 million, including interest, in the civil fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James. “He owes this money,” said Melber, himself an attorney. “If you talk to people casually about it, they say, oh, is he ever going to be held accountable. If civil cases,…