Kevin Spacey Charged with Indecent Assault and Battery | CTV Your Morning

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well kevin spacey will be arraigned on a
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felony sexual assault charge in a
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massachusetts court today the charges
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related to allegations
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by a former new england television
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anchor who accused spacey of groping her
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then
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18 year old son at a nantucket bar in
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2016. the actor
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is expected to plead not guilty let’s
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discuss this this morning with tanya
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walker
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of walker law tanya good to have you
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with us this morning thank you for
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having me
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okay let’s break this all down he is
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facing a charge of specifically indecent
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assault and battery
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this has a sentence of up to five years
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if in fact he is convicted
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so they need to find him guilty though
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if that is to happen what in your
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professional opinion are the chances
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of that happening i think the chances
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are very low because
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the prosecution will have to prove five
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elements the most important one is
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consent
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the lack of consent and there’s
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credibility as an issue because it’s
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more it’s he said he he said um but
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the complainant is saying uh lied about
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his age he said he was 23 when he at
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that
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time he was 18 years old um he was
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uh not supposed to be drinking at the
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bar that he worked at
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um afterwards um and uh
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this there’s a snapchat video where it
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was once rumored that um it was a video
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of
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mr spacey touching him indecently but it
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turns out in fact that it’s that he
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actually just touched his shirt
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okay well listen we go back to this uh
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whole allegation against spacey starting
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in 2017
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that was when actor uh anthony rapp made
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initial allegations against spacey
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there are now over 30 men who have come
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forward with different kinds of
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similar allegations against spacey can
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those come up in court against him
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no they are not uh according to
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massachusetts law it’s the same in
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canada as well
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you cannot bring up allegations um only
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convictions
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if mr stacy decides to testify and use
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that for the purpose of impreaching his
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credibility so given that he has not
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been convicted yet of any of these
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allegations
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it’s unfortunately uh it cannot be
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brought up in court
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but he’s like one of the most famous
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people in the world name recognized all
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over
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and there’s now a lot of attention
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around his case in the post me too
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movement
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will that actually hurt him though in
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court i’m not sure
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because he did something a bit bizarre
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which has released a video
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gaining more attention so i don’t know
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if it will hurt him in court because it
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cannot be brought up
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in court but there is also the court of
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public opinion and many people
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know about this so i don’t think it will
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automatically erase from their minds
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so you bring up this video because this
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is the video that we’re showing he
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reportedly posted this on youtube he was
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kind of acting like his house of cards
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character frank
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yes and he’s kind of pleading his
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innocence and so do we think that this
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is like okay well he’s clearly going to
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plead not guilty and what does that do
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to a court case when you have this
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showing up on youtube
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it’s i think it’s a little bit bizarre
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to have to have released it but uh
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it’s called title let’s be frank
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and uh it basically says the message
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that i interpret from that is i’m not
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guilty there’s some things
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i’ve done that i didn’t even uh pay the
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price for so i’m definitely not going to
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pay the price for something that i
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didn’t do
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okay we’re going to be watching this go
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down in nantucket today
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thank you so much for your perspective
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thank you for having me thank you
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all right priya standing by with the