| Cuba
Gooding Jr
Facing Trial
on Sex Assault
of Jane Doe
Has Lawyer Say
Her Real Name
Twice
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 1 – Cuba
Gooding, Jr.
faces a civil
trial for
allegedly
violating
NYC's Victims
of
Gender-Motivated
Violence
Protection Law
in Soho's
Mercer Hotel.
The
female
plaintiff has
been
anonymous, as
"Doe" - but at
the June 1
final
pre-trial
conference
Gooding's
lawyer said
her real name
not once but
twice, along
with
information
about her
bankruptcy
filing that
otherwise
identifies
her.
Inner
City Press
covered the
final
pre-trial
conference,
thread here:
Judge
Crotty, to
Gooding's
lawyer: You
are trying to
exclude
evidence that
you should
really argue
to the jury
about the
weight it
should be
given.
Gooding's
lawyer: Why
would she
follow him
into the
bedroom? To
watch him
change his
clothes?
The
Complaint says
Gooding "put
on music
(Mumford &
Sons, to be
specific) then
began to take
his clothes
off."
Judge Crotty:
The time to
take
depositions is
over.
Judge
Crotty: What
about the
social media
posts?
Gooding's
lawyer:
The woman from
the club went
on social
media to say
the plaintiff
had bragged
about having
consensual sex
with
him.
Judge
Crotty: What
about the
criminal case
against Mr.
Gooding?
Gooding's
lawyer: I was
not involved,
but I
understand
that he
pleaded
guilty, but
only as to one
woman, not
two.
Gooding's
most recent
filing
contrasts
"Plaintiff
rejoining her
fiends for
more drinks at
Le Souk
immediately
after
allegedly
being raped by
Gooding
undermines her
claim."
Now
Gooding's
lawyer says,
We are not
seeking to
admit evidence
of her child
sexual
assault
Gooding's
lawyer says,
then
apologizes for
saying, the
Jane Doe
plaintiff's
real name. Now
going into the
specifics of
her Alabama
bankruptcy
case.
Judge
Crotty: How
did it
end?
Gooding's
lawyer says
the name
again...
Gooding's
lawyer: She
claimed to be
destitute but
then said she
made $5000 a
week.
Judge
Crotty: The
jury can just
consider that,
and that she
bought a
Zuccatti
motorcycle.
Counsel:
It's a
Ducati.
Gooding's
lawyer: He has
accused me of
using the
press against
the
plaintiff.
He says that
in the
February 2023
conference - 5
news reporters
were there,
and they were
there to hear
me accuse the
plaintiff of
lying.
Judge
Crotty: The
media have
their own
sources... The
press is going
to be
here.
[That's true:
Inner City
Press argued
before Judge
Crotty for
access to all
proceedings in
US v. Joshua
Schulte (some
of which was
sealed)
Gooding's
lawyer not
only twice
said Jane
Doe's real
name - he
described in
detail her
Alabama
bankruptcy
filings.
More
court
docket
reporting on
Substack here.
The
case is Doe v.
Gooding, Jr.,
20-cv-6569
(Crotty)
***
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