Mueller took the stand on Tuesday, saying that he may have touched her “rib cage, or rib, or ribs,” but didn’t touch her backside. Martinez wrote in his decision, “It is very hard to understand how he spent so little time and effort to preserve the very evidence which - one might think - could have helped him to prove his claims, and why he evidently responded with nonchalance when that evidence was lost.” However, he also admitted to destroying or losing the multiple electronic devices (cell phone, laptop, iPad, and computer) the full conversation was stored on. Mueller had previously supplied snippets of the two-hour recording to his attorneys to bolster his claim. District Judge William Martinez ruled that attorneys will be allowed to question Mueller about the contents of the recordings, and the jury will be allowed to consider the destroyed evidence in their decision.Ĭall said that Mueller had changed his story in that conversation, which was part of why he was fired. Mueller has also been sanctioned for destroying evidence, specifically recordings of his conversation with his boss, Robert Call, the day before he was fired. On the other hand, Swift’s lawyers have called the photo “damning” evidence that Mueller groped her. Mueller’s lawyer, Gabriel McFarland, told the jury on Tuesday, “If you look at that photograph, his hand is not underneath Miss Swift’s skirt, and her skirt is not rumpled in any fashion.” The photo is being used as key evidence in the trial by both camps. The two suits were merged for the ongoing trail. Swift said in her countersuit that she will donate any monetary awards to charities “dedicated to protecting women from similar acts of sexual assault and personal disregard.” In response, Swift countersued him in October 2015 for assault and battery, asking for a symbolic $1. He is seeking lost earnings of at least $3 million. He claims Swift fabricated the story to get him fired from his job. Mueller filed a false-accusation suit in September 2015 against Swift, her mother, Andrea, and her radio-promotions director, Frank Bell. In 2016, TMZ obtained the photo, which shows Mueller’s hand behind Swift, below her waist. Swift’s management informed KYGO of the incident, but, per Reuters, Swift says she never demanded he be fired. Later, he was fired from his job at KYGO-FM because of the encounter with Swift. Mueller was approached by a member of Swift’s team, asked to leave, and banned from future concerts. It was not an accident, it was completely intentional, and I have never been so sure of anything in my life.” Swift said in her deposition, “Right as the moment came for us to pose for the photo, he took his hand and put it up my dress and grabbed onto my ass cheek, and no matter how much I scooted over, it was still there. He posed for a photo with Swift and his then-girlfriend when, according to Swift, he reached up inside Swift’s skirt and grabbed her bottom. Mueller, then a morning-show host at 98.5 KYGO-FM in Denver, met Swift during her Red Tour in June 2013. Here’s how Swift ended up in that Colorado courtroom. The trial is set to play out over nine days, ending on August 24. Mueller, now 55, initiated legal action in 2015, saying that Swift had caused irrevocable damage to his career, and he had not been able to get a job in radio since Swift accused him of groping her. Like most things involving Swift, it has a long, twisty backstory beginning at a meet-and-greet in 2013 when Swift was just 23. She occasionally shook her head, grimaced, shared a look with her mother or wrote a hurried note to her mother or legal team.Taylor Swift - squad leader, nemesis of Katy Perry, and Fourth of July aficionado - appeared in a Colorado courtroom on Monday to begin a trial against radio personality/DJ David Mueller. Swift showed little emotion during Wednesday’s testimony, reacting only occasionally during Mueller’s account. “I never said anything to Eddie,” Mueller replied. But Mueller didn’t bring that up when he was fired or any other time before he sued Swift.Īnd “you talked to him on the phone three times, and never said, ‘I’m in trouble here, you said you put your hands on her rear end’,” Baldridge told Mueller. Mueller’s lawsuit claims that Hershell Coomer, one of his bosses at KYGO known as “Eddie Haskell,” said he had groped Swift that night. In the course of testimony about his job history, Baldridge repeatedly called on Mueller to say whether his clients were responsible for his being fired. When Baldridge asked if being fired in Kansas City could have damaged his chances to get a job, Mueller replied, “theoretically, it could.”īaldridge then referred to Mueller’s testimony in a sworn deposition in which he said that firing had hurt him, saying, “I can’t imagine it didn’t.” Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĨ-member jury seated in Taylor Swift groping trial
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