There were some major developments in the domestic violence allegations against Jonathan Majors. A judge rejected his request to dismiss the case, and the trial will start on November 29.
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/j...al-1235767034/
Yesterday it was reported that Manhattan prosecutors are looking to introduce a police report about an altercation in London.Jonathan Majors will face a trial on domestic abuse charges after a New York judge denied the motion to dismiss the case. The trial date is set to begin on Nov. 29.
Majors appeared on Wednesday morning in a lower Manhattan courtroom via Zoom because he’s out of state.
During the hearing, his defense attorneys filed a motion to request that “contested evidence” remain under seal and barred from public view due to the”high profile” nature of the case and allegations against Majors. Defense attorney Seth Zuckerman told Judge Michael Gaffey that he believes “the disclosure of sensitive information will limit Mr. Majors’ right to a fair trial.” The judge did not yet rule on the motion and told reporters in the room they could submit papers to oppose it by Nov. 6.
Following Wednesday’s decision, a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office issued a statement saying, “We look forward to presenting our case at trial.”
The Marvel actor was arrested in Manhattan on March 25 and charged with assault and aggravated harassment after an alleged domestic dispute with his girlfriend at the time, Grace Jabbari. Majors has pleaded not guilty to the four charges leveled against him. If convicted of misdemeanor charges of harassment and assault, he faces up to one year in jail.
https://deadline.com/2023/10/jonatha...rt-1235581808/
Prosecutors also pushed back against his defense team's messaging.A day before a court hearing that could determine whether the domestic violence case against Jonathan Majors goes ahead and to trial, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office Tuesday made some damning accusations against the defense and also said the UK police are now a part of their prosecution.
Details of the London Metropolitan Police report from over a year ago are unknown. However, “medical Records from the United Kingdom, photographs taken by medical providers, and correspondence with [a] medical provider” related to a September 2022 incident are among the new evidence prosecutors acquired, according to a recent filing in the New York criminal case.
And the details are disgusting.Rejecting a defense motion to dismiss the matter, Bragg and Assistant D.A. Keli Galaway also now accuse Majors’ defense team Priya Chaudhry, Seth Zuckerman and David Winkler of “fictional” and “meritless” allegations against their office in an attempt to take the case off track. They also accuse the defense of spreading misinformation about non-existent video footage of the March incident, and claiming charges were coming against Jabbari for supposedly attacking their client. The D.A.’s office adds that Majors’ defense lawyers have been distributing a “wanted flyer” against Jabbari in an effort to shift focus.
“While defendant claims the People did not investigate Ms. Jabbari, a thorough investigation was conducted into the facts of this case and, in doing so, the People have chosen to prosecute Jonathan Majors,” the DA’s office said in its filing, which was made October 13. “Simply because defense counsel does not agree with the People’s use of prosecutorial discretion, it does not follow that an investigation was not conducted.”
Despite the activation of an investigatory card by police, the DA’s office says it has strongly recommended to NYPD detectives not to arrest Jabbari, a British citizen, based on the cross complaint from Majors in June. It added that if the cops did arrest Jabbari, it would go nowhere fast.
“On September 8, 2023, and September 12, 2023, the prosecution informed the NYPD that the People would decline to prosecute any charges brought by the NYPD against Ms. Jabbari related to the belated allegations made by defendant regarding the incident on March 25, 2023.”
Jabbari is intended as a witness for the prosecution in the much-delayed trial, and the DA said today its office is paying for her to fly over from UK. It also is paying for her lodging while in the U.S. for the trial – whenever it actually starts.
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movi...ce-1234860571/
He may be one actor who hopes the SAG strike goes on for a long time.In the recent motion, prosecutors said the fight started when the woman observed Majors receive a text message to the effect of, “Wish I was kissing you right now.” When the woman attempted to grab the phone, Majors allegedly twisted her arm and struck her, according to her police complaint. Majors then exited the car and when the woman tried to follow him, he allegedly grabbed her, picked her up, and threw her back inside the car. The woman “sustained substantial pain, including a fractured finger, bruising about her body, a laceration behind her right ear, and a bump on her head,” according to the motion.
Prosecutors also claim in court papers that while Majors’ legal team has told the press that “video of the incident existed,” there is no video of the alleged attack. Similarly, prosecutors have claimed that Majors’ lawyers provided them a witness statement from the driver of the taxi cab in which the driver supposedly claimed he had seen the woman attack Majors. However, prosecutors claim when they showed the statement to the driver, he stated that he “had never written it, approved it, did not previously know it existed, and that the above statements were all false,” according to the motion.
In Rolling Stone‘s investigation from June, Majors’ legal team provided six character witness statements from women who Majors had dated or was close with. When Rolling Stone reached all six people, three say they never gave Majors’ team permission to release such statements. Another woman declined to share the statement credited to her by Majors’ team, saying it was prewritten, not truthful, and that she had never approved of its release. (One did not respond to a request for comment.) Only one woman consented to making her statement public.