The jury “found the defendant not responsible”announced the federal court for the southern district of Manhattan.
The jury, made up of 12 people (six women and six men) had to answer an eight-question questionnaire presented by the investigating judge in the case, Lewis Kaplan, at the end of almost two weeks of trial.
A negative answer to the first question – whether they considered that the plaintiff had “proven evidence” that the winner of two Oscars had touched “his sexual or intimate parts” 36 years ago when he was a minor, made it unnecessary to answer the remaining questions, which also included an economic estimate of the damages suffered as a result of that event.
Rapp, 50, assured in the complaint he filed with the New York justice in September 2020, that Spacey, currently 63 years old but who was 26 at the time, invited him to a party in his Manhattan studio and when they all left he tried to sexually assault him.
The respective teams of lawyers were used thoroughly to prove or dismantle that this alleged act really happened and that it left psychological consequences to the protagonist of “Star Trek: Discovery”.
The judge dismissed the charge of “sexual assault” in June due to facts considered prescribed and that are not contemplated by the New York Child Protection Law of 2019, while last Monday he ruled out at the request of the defense the existence of intentionality with purposes of “sexual gratification”.