NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Jonathan Majors’ home violence case will go to trial Aug. 3, a Manhattan decide stated Tuesday, casting him in a real-life courtroom drama as his idled Hollywood profession hangs within the steadiness.
Majors’ accuser alleges he pulled her finger, twisted her arm behind her again, struck and minimize her ear and pushed her right into a automobile, inflicting her to fall backwards, throughout a March confrontation in New York Metropolis. The lady was handled at a hospital for minor head and neck accidents, police stated.
Majors’ legal professional, Priya Chaudhry, stated Tuesday that she offered prosecutors with video proof displaying the feminine accuser attacked her consumer, not the opposite method round. The lady has not been named in court docket data.
Majors had been a fast-rising Hollywood star with main roles in latest hits like “Creed III” and “Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.” However within the wake of his arrest, the U.S. Military pulled TV commercials starring Majors, saying it was “deeply involved” by the allegations. Disney final month postponed Majors’ upcoming Marvel movie “Avengers: Kang Dynasty” from Could 2025 to Could 2026. He’s additionally slated to seem in “Avengers: Secret Wars” in 2027.
Choose Rachel Pauley wished the actor “better of luck” as she scheduled his trial. “Sure, ma’am,” Majors stated, standing together with his attorneys in entrance of Pauley’s bench in Manhattan’s home violence court docket.
Majors, 33, is charged with misdemeanors, together with assault, and may very well be sentenced to as much as a yr in jail if convicted.
Tuesday’s listening to was his first time in court docket since simply after his March 25 arrest in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. He appeared by video at a listening to final month the place prosecutors stated they have been revising the assault cost to mirror the accuser’s perspective. A police officer’s account was used within the unique model.
Earlier than his case was known as Tuesday, Majors watched from the courtroom gallery together with his attorneys and his girlfriend Meagan Good, who stars within the “Shazam!” films, as two males in unrelated circumstances had their home violence expenses thrown out.
Chaudhry urged the Manhattan district legal professional’s workplace to do the identical for Majors and to as an alternative cost his 30-year-old accuser, “holding her accountable for her crimes.” In lieu of a call, Chaudhry requested that Majors’ case go to trial as quickly as attainable.
Chaudhry stated she’s offered prosecutors with “compelling proof” of Majors’ innocence, together with video displaying the girl assaulting the actor and Majors operating away from her.
“We additionally offered pictures illustrating the accidents she inflicted on Mr. Majors and pictures of his clothes torn as a direct consequence of (the girl’s) violent actions,” Chaudhry stated.
She has additionally accused police and prosecutors of racial bias towards Majors, who’s Black. She stated a white police officer bought in Majors’ face and taunted him when he tried displaying the officer accidents that he stated the girl induced.
Earlier than scheduling Majors’ trial, the decide issued a sealed determination that prompted Chaudhry to withdraw court docket papers she’d filed difficult the case. Pauley handed copies of her ruling to Majors’ attorneys and prosecutors, however didn’t focus on any particulars in open court docket.
Majors, who performs villain Kang the Conqueror within the Marvel movies, carried his private Bible and a poetry journal into court docket. He smiled at instances, however stated little aside from his transient trade with the decide, which lasted all of three minutes.
Majors should proceed to abide by a safety order barring him from contact together with his accuser. A warrant may very well be issued for his arrest if he doesn’t present up for his trial date, the decide stated.
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