Massachusetts prosecutors drop sex assault case against actor Kevin Spacey

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Source: NBC News

A Massachusetts prosecutor on Wednesday asked for charges to be dropped against actor Kevin Spacey, who had been accused of groping a young man at a Nantucket bar three years ago.

Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe cited "unavailability of the complaining witness" in filing for dismissal in Nantucket District Court.

The case against Spacey appeared to suffer a fatal blow last week when Spacey's accuser invoked his Fifth Amendment rights after being questioned about his role in the deleting of text messages from a phone key to the case.

Spacey's defense had demanded to examine the accuser's cell phone that he had in the early morning hours of July 8, 2016 when the alleged incident happened at the Club Car restaurant and bar in Nantucket.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/massachusetts-prosecutors-drop-sex-assault-case-against-actor-kevin-spacey-n1031011

[yaesu]

1. i'm sure someone got a big payoff, an early xmas. nt

[virgogal]

2. I disagee,I think Spacey was set up.

[chowder66]

3. In this case it certainly sounds like it. nt

[CatMor]

4. I agree with you...

It seems like the mother was doing something with the phone that wasn't right.

[virgogal]

8. The mother seems to be behind it all---- she likes publicity and uses her son.Some serious family

disfunction IMHO.

[CatMor]

10. If anything charges should be made against the mother.

[Everyman Jackal]

5. So according to the law

Spacey is innocent of any wrongdoing yet loses out of House of Cards. What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

[virgogal]

7. There are many other pending cases and pending accusations-----there may have been something in

his contract that gave them the right to terminate him.

[Everyman Jackal]

9. I'm just saying the we used to have innocent until proven guilty.

Actually in a nonlegal way we have never had innocent until proven guilty.

[christx30]

11. We are innocent until proven guilty in the eyes of the law.

But that doesn’t stop other people from doing what they want. It’s like consequences to being seen at a white supremacy rally. If you’re doxxed, nothing is stopping you from speaking your mind, per the first amendment. Also nothing stopping your family and friends from treating you like crap after they find out what you are.

[VarryOn]

6. Good. This case got fishier and fishier.nt

[wiley]

12. Good News! Spacey is deserved an apology.

A guy working at a restaurant/bar is a "young" man only for the purposes of having his Mom weep publicly to shale some cash out of a wealthy person. The man refused to give up his cell phone records. I bet Mom found out he was looking for something. Or someone.

[Bayard]

13. Spacey was really torn apart here on DU when this started

I think he finally saw some justice. Great actor.