Former President Donald Trump will not testify in E. Jean Carroll’s civil trial for rape and defamation.

(CNN) Former President Donald Trump will not testify in the civil rape and defamation trial of E. Jean Carroll after his lawyer failed to inform the court of any change in strategy by the judge-imposed 5 p.m. deadline. US Eastern Time this Sunday.

As attorneys for Carroll and Trump rested from their respective cases in the Manhattan federal court trial Thursday night, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan had left a window for Trump to testify, even as the former president’s attorney said that that would be highly unlikely.

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The judge said he had ordered the injunction in light of Trump’s public comments suggesting he would appear in court before the trial ended.

Carroll, a former magazine columnist, alleges that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman warehouse in the mid-1990s and then smeared her when she denied his claim; Trump said that Carroll was not the type of him and suggested that he made up the story to boost sales of his book. Trump has denied all the allegations against him.

Closing arguments in the case will begin this Monday. The jury is likely to hear the case this Tuesday.

— CNN’s Lauren Del Valle contributed to this report.

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