A Las Vegas choose has allowed Nick Carter’s counterclaim towards one of many girls accusing him of sexual assault to maneuver ahead.
Nick Carter has repeatedly denied the claims specified by the case, saying the ladies try to extort cash from him. The Backstreet Boys singer filed counterclaims towards Melissa Schuman and Shannon Ruth. Each Schuman and Ruth filed anti-SLAAP motions to try to have the counterclaims dismissed. The counterclaim towards Ruth was allowed by a choose in March, whereas this listening to allowed the counterclaim towards Schuman to proceed.
Schuman’s lawyer advised the choose that a number of witnesses imagine his shoppers’ statements and that Carter’s allegations of extortion have been a “latest fabrication.”
“From her declaration, Melissa advised her good friend Rachel and Rachel’s mom in addition to her family and her supervisor after the incident,” Schuman’s lawyer advised the court docket. “She additionally began seeing a therapist and advised the therapists. All of these statements have been again in 2003, which is 14 years earlier than Melissa Schuman went public with this in 2017.”
“Each witnesses parroted what [Schuman] advised them,” argued Lian Okay. Wakayama, Carter’s lawyer. “Mr. Carter’s testimony alone particularly contradicts what Ms. Schuman has put in her declaration. All the pieces was consensual. Even Schuman’s personal proof contradicts her story.”
“Rachel, [Schuman’s friend], testified once they left Carter’s house the following morning that quote, ‘I assumed all the pieces was effective.’ Melissa is claiming she was repeatedly raped all by means of the evening and the following morning. Her greatest good friend was there, in shut proximity, and has no thought? How can that be?”
Schuman’s lawyer argued that Carter’s proof was ‘rumour’ and never testimony, whereas Carter’s lawyer disagreed saying there was a mountain of proof to indicate the reality.
“The counterclaim is the product of Mr. Carter lastly with the ability to defend himself and arise for himself after struggling alone in silence for years,” Wakayama advised the court docket. “His counterclaims expose the reality and, in actuality, it exposes the darkish facet of the fandom.”