After four weeks hearing evidence from four accusers, plus friends and family, the jury is considering eight charges, including indecent assault, sexual assault and the most serious, “causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity.'
Originally there were 12 charges, including seven counts of sexual assault, three counts of indecent assault, one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. An additional count of indecent assault was added mid-trial, but all four indecent assault charges were later dropped due to a “legal technicality.
Spacey has denied all the charges, describing two of the sexual encounters as consensual and a third as a “clumsy pass,” for which he claimed he had later attempted to apologize. The fourth encounter he denied entirely. Over the course of the last month, the jury has heard how Spacey was a “sexual bully” who took pleasure in making his victims of violence feel “powerless and uncomfortable.”
Spacey’s defense, led by his lawyer Patrick Gibbs KC, has focused on questioning the truthfulness of the accusers. In his closing remarks last week, he said there were “three liars in this case,” adding that the “problem” with the fourth complainant’s evidence is that he “wasn’t exactly sober as he describes it — but nobody was.”
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