NANTUCKET (MA)
The Guardian
January 8, 2019
By Josh Wood
Actor will face a maximum of five years in prison if convicted over groping incident that allegedly took place at a bar in 2016
At a minutes-long arraignment on the ritzy Massachusetts island of Nantucket on Monday, Kevin Spacey did not appear to utter a word.
The 59-year-old Oscar-winning actor appeared before a judge, alongside his lawyers. He was accused of groping a then 18-year-old man at the Club Car restaurant and bar on the island in 2016.
The charge, of indecent assault and battery, is a felony. If convicted, Spacey will face a maximum of five years in prison and registration as a sex offender.
His lawyers entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf and a pre-trial hearing was set for 4 March. Judge Thomas S Barrett said Spacey would not have to appear then, but must be available by phone. Spacey was ordered to stay away from the alleged victim and his family.
Barrett granted a request by Spacey’s attorneys to preserve the alleged victim’s cellphone data for six months after the date of the alleged assault. Spacey attorney Alan Jackson said there was data within that would be “likely exculpatory”.
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