| For
Trial Kevin
Spacey Hired
Dr Loftus
Expert in
Ghislaine
Maxwell Case
But Doesn't
Call Her
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA
Trial book - NY
Mag
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 18 – Anthony Rapp's
lawsuit against Kevin Spacey
was removed to Federal court
in November 2020, and an
anonymous co-plaintiff C.D.
was added.
Spacey wanted to
make C.D.'s name public, to
order to conduct discovery, he
says. C.D.'s lawyers
opposed it, letter on Patreon
here.
On May 26, 2022
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan held a
hearing, with Spacey
testifying, on Rapp's motion
to remand the case. Judge
Kaplan at the end said it is
his present intention to deny
the motion to remand, and that
the trial will start in
October. Inner City Press
attended then tweeted here.
[Then video
here]
On October
6, 2022, the
trail began. On the
way in video I,
II; afterward
Space
and Vlog.
Here's
the live tweeted thread
by Inner City
Press of the openings,
here
On October
18, after
cross of
Spacey, his
expert Dr.
Bardey -
instead of the
expert he
first paid,
Dr. Loftus
of Ghislaine
Maxwell trial
fame, who
apparently
didn't say
what Spacey wanted
and so wasn't
called as a witness.
Thread here:
OK - in Rapp v Kevin Spacey, cross
examination of Spacey.
Rapp's lawyer: You wrote, If he maintains
there was a bedroom, he'll have a problem,
right?
Spacey: Yes. Rapp's lawyer: You wrote, if it
was in my apartment downtown, he'd be 19, -
but this meant, it might have happened, right?
Spacey: Not sexually, sir.
Rapp's lawyer: Has it been an important part
of your life to combat bigotry? Spacey: Yes.
Rapp's lawyer: Do you have WhatsApp? Spacey:
Yes. Rapp's lawyer: You used WhatsApp to
text Mr. Lowenstein, right? Spacey: I might
have.
Rapp's lawyer: You wrote, maybe just
maybe Anthony Rapp is down on his luck--
Spacey's lawyer: Objection. Not in evidence.
Judge: Sustained. Rapp's lawyer: I offer it in
evidence. Spacey's lawyer: Objection, 403.
Judge: Sustained. Rapp's lawyer: Nothing
further
Spacey's lawyer: Next witness is Dr. Alexander
Bardey. You are a forensic psychiatrist?
Bardey: Yes. I went to SUNY Stony Brook School
of Medicine then NYU, on staff at
Bellevue. I head forensic psychiatry for
Nassau County. I deal with malingering a
lot
Spacey's lawyer: Mr. Rapp's expert Dr. Rocchio
diagnosed Mr. Rapp with PTSD. Do you agree?
Dr. Bardey: I do not. I met with him for about
two & a half hour. Spacey's lawyer: Why
only 2 & 1/2? Dr. Bardey: I had his
deposition. So I interviewed his husband &
others
Dr. Bardey: My take-away from Rocchio's
testing was that it was inconsistent.
Rapp's lawyer: Objection. This is not in the
report.
Judge (after a time) This is 49 single spaced
pages. Let's give the jury a break as I read
it. Break taken - thread will continue We're
back. Spacey's lawyer: Any more sexually
traumatic incidents for Mr. Rapp? Bardey: He
was seduced by a 40 year old actress when he
was 16 or 17.
Spacey's lawyer: That could be traumatic?
Rapp's lawyer: Objection. Judge: Sustained.
Spacey's lawyer: Are you aware that Mr. Rapp
engaged in sex with boys while 11 and 12? Dr
Bardey: Yes. So I found no change in behavior
after the alleged incident in 1986.
Dr. Bardey: I found he has aspects of
narcissistic personality disorder. Spacey's
lawyer: Would a person like that, if they lost
a beauty contest or an election, claim they
hadn't lost? [There is laugher, and an
objection by Rapp's lawyer. Sustained.]
Judge says, Let's have a sidebar. Jurors, take
a break. Spacey's lawyer: I'm staying on the
right side of wrong. I'm not asking if he
thinks Mr. Rapp is lying. Rapp's lawyer: They
are trying to back into it. Judge: We
have a contemporaneous objection rule.
Spacey's lawyer: Judge, if could just -- Judge
Kaplan: My late great senior partner, who sat
on this court, had a saying, When the judge is
ruling in your favor, get out of the courtroom
well... before he changes his mind. Jury is
called back in.
But not for long - after an objection about a
question to Dr Bardey on cross, Judge Kaplan
says he'd like to review something, so sends
jurors home. Now with jurors out of the
courtroom, a last burst of argument about Dr.
Loftus (also in Maxwell trial)
Spacey put Dr Loftus on his witness list
- but now, he's not calling her. Can jury to
be told that? That is, is Rapp entitled to a
missing witness charge? Judge: Where does she
reside?
A: California.
Judge: I'll think about it overnight.
Video
outside of
court here
(Oct 18, Loftus Q)
and
here
(Oct 17,
Epstein plane
Q).
***
Your
support means a lot. As little as $5 a month
helps keep us going and grants you access to
exclusive bonus material on our Patreon
page. Click
here to become a patron.
Feedback:
Editorial [at] innercitypress.com
SDNY Press Room 480, front cubicle
500 Pearl Street, NY NY 10007 USA
Mail: Box 20047, Dag
Hammarskjold Station NY NY 10017
Reporter's mobile (and weekends):
718-716-3540
Other, earlier Inner City Press are
listed here,
and some are available in the ProQuest
service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.
Copyright 2006-2020 Inner City
Press, Inc. To request reprint or other
permission, e-contact Editorial [at]
innercitypress.com
|
,
