Part of the 24-page appeal filed on Monday by lawyers Cristobal Martell against Dani Alves‘ pre-trial detention without bail has been revealed.
The former Barcelona and Seville player was arrested on January 20 and has since been in custody without bail, accused of an alleged sexual assault committed at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on December 30.
in his appeal, Alves questions the victim’s account of the Sutton images and claims that the complainant deliberately entered the bathroom after him without the player letting him pass or opening the door.
El Periodico publishes excerpts from the appeal, which the Barcelona…
It would appear that Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba is out of E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against the former president … sort of. As with every other procedural aspect of this case, it’s substantially factual, and seems all but guaranteed to piss off Judge Lewis Kaplan. And he was already pretty pissed!
To recap: In 2019, advice columnist E. Jean Carroll alleged that Trump raped her in a New York department store decades earlier. Trump immediately branded Carroll a liar and implied she was too ugly to rape — an allegation slightly undercut when he examined a picture of…
A proposed class-action lawsuit over infamous brainwashing experiments at a Montreal psychiatric hospital was before Quebec’s highest court Thursday, as victims attempted to remove immunity granted to the United States government.
The US government successfully argued in Quebec Superior Court last August that the country couldn’t be sued for the project known as MK-ULTRA — allegedly funded by the Canadian government and the CIA. US lawyers argued that foreign states had absolute immunity from lawsuits in Canada between the 1940s and 1960s, when the program took place.
But survivors, and their families, of the experiments at Montreal’s Allan Memorial Institute…