By: Farah Chandani | OTH News | Posted: July 8, 2019 09:22 pm
American Actor Kevin Spacey’s accuser has pleaded the Fifth Amendment right and is refusing to testify.
A young man accused Spacey of groping him at a resort island bar in Massachusetts in 2016. This then led to sexual misconduct allegations in 2017.
After the man chose not to testify at court, the judge began to question the viability of the case.
The accuser was ordered to take the stand after he said he lost a cellphone where the man had deleted messages to prove Spacey’s claims of innocence.
The man isn’t being named at the time because The Associated Press doesn’t name victims of sexual assault unless they want to identify themselves publicly.
Earlier in January, Kevin Spacey pleaded not guilty to the assault and January.
Judge Thomas Barrett says he will not dismiss the case immediately, but once exercised, it may be hard to get around the privilege at trial.
Spacey’s lawyer Alan Jackson says “None of that answers the central question, which is: Where is the actual phone? That's what we want. That's what we're entitled to, and we still don't have it,"
Jackson says they will be filing a written motion to dismiss the case.
The next hearing has been set for July 31.
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