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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction is overturned by New York’s top court  Yahoo! Voices Source link

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge late Saturday said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial on a jury’s conclusion last year that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in advance of a Jan. 16 trial to determine defamation damages against Trump after a jury concluded Trump sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll but did not find evidence… Source link

Buffalo Bills rookie punter Matt Araiza didn’t play in the team’s final preseason game on Friday night against the Carolina Panthers, following civil lawsuit allegations that he and two former San Diego State teammates gang raped a 17-year-old girl in 2021. Araiza traveled with the team to Charlotte, and was at Bank of America Stadium while Buffalo’s other special teams players took the field for warmups. Backup quarterback Matt Barkley assumed the Bills’ punting duties. Araiza released a… Source link

Former Georgia linebacker Adam Anderson was charged with raping a woman in October, according to ESPN’s Mark Schlabach. Anderson was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday after the alleged incident on Oct. 29, and he’s due in court next on June 13. His attorney, Steve Sadow, said Anderson plans to plead not guilty. “Adam respectfully reminds the public and his supporters that he was not permitted by law to participate in the grand jury proceeding, which is totally under the control of the… Source link

The Cleveland Rape Crisis Center has received more than 1,000 donations since the Cleveland Browns traded for Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson on Friday, it said on Saturday morning. Watson, who missed all of last season after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, was traded to the Browns in exchange for five future draft picks. The deal will also reportedly give Watson the most guaranteed money sum in NFL history. “We understand the story surrounding Deshaun Watson joining the… Source link

Sergio Mitre, seen here with the Mexican national team in 2018, was sentenced to 40-to-60 years in prison in Mexico this week. (Ulises Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images) Former MLB pitcher Sergio Mitre was sentenced to prison in Mexico this week after he was found guilty of raping and murdering the 22-month-old daughter of his former girlfriend. Mitre, 41, was found guilty on Wednesday night and sentenced to 40-to-60 years in prison, according to NJ.com. Per the report, Mitre attacked the baby in July 2020… Source link

The Guardian Amber Glenn: America’s pansexual skating star on coming out and breaking through Since coming out as pansexual, the US national silver medalist has delivered a series of career-best performances and thrust herself into the conversation for next year’s Olympics Amber Glenn is believed to be the first ever out woman to actively compete on the international senior circuit. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA “What is your sexuality?” Amber Glenn looked up from the questionnaire at… Source link

French actor Gerard Depardieu has been charged with rape and sexual assault allegedly committed in 2018 against an actress in her 20s, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday. An initial investigation into the rape accusations against Depardieu, 72, was dropped in 2019 for lack of evidence but reopened last summer, leading to criminal charges filed in December, the source said. The actress accuses Depardieu of having raped and assaulted her at his Parisian home in August 2018. Depardieu’s lawyer,… Source link

Former San Francisco 49ers star Dana Stubblefield was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison on Thursday after being found guilty of raping a woman he had interviewed for a babysitting job, according to The Mercury News’ Robert Salonga. The sentence was reportedly issued after Judge Arthur Bocanegra denied a defense motion for a new trial. The Sixth District Court of Appeal has also reportedly denied a petition from Stubblefield’s legal team. In July, a jury found Stubblefield guilty of… Source link