Kevin Spacey accuser drops lawsuit against actor

[jpak]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kevin-spacey-accuser-drops-lawsuit-130815060.html

BOSTON (AP) — A young man who says Kevin Spacey groped him in a Nantucket bar in 2016 has dropped his lawsuit against the Oscar-winning actor, his lawyer said Friday.

Spacey still faces a criminal charge. He pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and battery in January.

His accuser's lawyer, Mitchell Garabedian, announced in an email that the suit filed June 26 in Nantucket Superior Court has been voluntarily dismissed. No reason was provided either by Garabedian or in the court filing. Garabedian said he would have no further comment. A telephone message was left at his office.

According to the court filing, the suit was dismissed "with prejudice," which means it cannot be refiled.

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[mr_lebowski]

1. If it's 'voluntarily dismissed', then why would it be 'with prejudice'?

Can one of our legal experts explain that, perchance?

[Everyman Jackal]

5. There is a good chance that there was a settlement

and he would not have gotten it if he could turn around and refile. That's just off the top of my head since I don't know the facts of the settlement if there even was one.

[CentralMass]

2. Out of court settlement ?

[hlthe2b]

3. that's my guess.

[stillcool]

4. What a farce that was...

Mommy dearest, Heather Underwood must be so disappointed.

[Blue_true]

6. The accuser in the criminal case is failing to produce a cellphone

that the judge has ordered him to produce. I don't know whether the defense will ask for phone company records, but they could, seems there is something there for their client.

I have thought about what it is like to be accused of something that can end a career or put one put one in jail. Spacey seems to have had real issues with violating people, the question is whether he did on the two Massachusetts cases.

[pnwmom]

7. There is something curious at the very end.

The criminal case has centered on the cellphone used by the accuser the night of the alleged groping, which the defense says it needs in order to recover text messages it says will support Spacey's innocence.

Nantucket District Court Judge Thomas Barrett has ordered the man to hand the phone over to the defense, but his attorney said they cannot find it. The judge has given them until Monday to produce the phone.

Maybe they never handed over the phone?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. Maybe "losing" the phone is part of the settlement.

If a new phone is purchased, and restored from "the cloud", will it contain the same evidence as the original phone?