Cuba Gooding Jr. Makes No-Jail Plea Deal In Sexual Abuse Case – Update
13.04.2022 - 23:31
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UPDATED, 12:50 PM: Cuba Gooding Jr. has made a plea deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time over his June 2019 arrest on misdemeanor sex abuse charges. The Jerry Maguire Oscar winner agreed to plead guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court to one count of forcible touching, and his conviction would be reduced to a violation and his criminal record cleared if Gooding complies with the terms of his deal.
He first was charged with allegedly touching a woman’s breast at a Manhattan hotel rooftop bar on June 9, 2018, and more charges were added later over incidents in September and October of that year.
Read details of the case below.
PREVIOUSLY, Oct. 31, 2019: Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan courtroom today to new criminal charges of forcible touching. A new superseding indictment (read it here) alleges three occurrences of forcible touching on June 9, September 9 and October 24, 2018. Read more details of the case below and the updated voluntary disclosure form here.
Gooding’s next court date is January 22, when Judge Curtis Farber will rule on prosecution and defense motions that are due on November 18, with responses due on December 9.
Meanwhile, Manhattan Assistant D.A. Jenna Long issued this statement today: “As we’ve noted in the voluntary disclosure form, we are still working on redacting the victims’ faces from video of the 2018 incidents. We’ve provided defense counsel a short clip from one of the incidents and, within 24 hours, that video had been released to the media. We feel that the release is inappropriate and an effort to taint the jury pool. The video released was also incomplete and only shows conduct from immediately after the charged incident.”
Watch the video from the October 2018 incident at TAO
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