Lawyers for Kevin Spacey have entered a not guilty plea on his behalf in a Massachusetts court on charges he groped an 18-year-old in 2016.
By Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press
January 7 2019 4:10 PM
Lawyers for Kevin Spacey have entered a not guilty plea on his behalf in a Massachusetts court on charges he groped an 18-year-old in 2016.
The actor faced a charge of indecent assault and battery during a hearing at Nantucket District Court and the judge set another hearing for March 4.
Spacey does not have to appear, the judge ruled, but he needs to be available by phone.
He must stay away from his accuser and his accuser’s family, the judge also ordered.
Spacey’s lawyer Alan Jackson said there is data that is “likely exculpatory” for Spacey.
The actor and his lawyers declined to comment as they left the courthouse amid a crush of reporters.
The hearing comes more than a year after a former Boston TV anchor accused the former House Of Cards star of sexually assaulting her son, then 18, in the crowded bar at the Club Car, where the teenager worked.
Mr Jackson has sought to poke holes in the case, noting that the teenager did not immediately report the allegations.
If convicted, Spacey faces as many as five years in prison.
Media trucks lined the street before dawn, and locals on the island, which teems with tourists in the summer but quietens down in the winter, drove by slowly to take photos of reporters standing in line in the cold.
