Jurors began deliberating Thursday in a civil trial involving Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis and a publicist who accused him of rape.
The jury heard three weeks of testimony. Haggis and accuser Haleigh Breest spent days on the witness stand giving their divergent accounts of what happened between them on Jan. 31, 2013.Breest, 36, says Haggis quickly became sexually aggressive and, though she told him she wasn't willing, forced her to perform oral sex and raped her.Breest is seeking unspecified damages from the screenwriter-director.
The Associated Press generally does not name people who allege they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Breest has done.
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