“This is a witch hunt against Jonathan Majors”-Priya Chaudhry speaks out after first court hearing involving her client Jonathan Majors who is being acused of assault. A charge was unveiled in Jonathan Majors’ domestic violence case, which could result in a maximum sentence of one year in prison if found guilty.
The actor’s attorney criticized the proceedings as a consequence of racial bias in the criminal justice system. The Manhattan criminal court building held a swift status conference on Tuesday, six weeks after the Magazine Dreams star was arrested for domestic violence by the NYPD.
The Creed III actor appeared virtually and did not enter a plea to the new charge of third-degree assault, a class A misdemeanor.
The next hearing is scheduled for June 13, which Major must attend in person, as stated by Judge Rachel S. Pauley.
Majors was warned against contacting the woman. Lawyer Priya Chaudhry criticized the D.A.’s case.
“This is a witch hunt against Jonathan Majors”
“We have provided the District Attorney with irrefutable evidence that the woman is lying, including video proof showing nothing happened, especially not where she claimed,” the lawyer said. “We did this with the explicit promise from the DA that they would not “fix” their case and change it as we proved the woman is lying.”
“This is a witch hunt against Jonathan Majors, driven by baseless claims,” Chaudhry went on to say, citing a “glaring double standard” in a statement to Deadline.
“Instead of dismissing the allegations in the face of the woman’s clear lies, the DA has adjusted the charges to match the woman’s new lies. To be clear, there are no new charges against Mr. Majors.”
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Now, we have obtained even more video evidence of his innocence, but we are hesitant to share it, for fear the DA will tip the woman off to change her story again.
The criminal justice system is saturated with explicit and implicit bias. When Mr. Majors showed a white police officer the injuries the woman caused him, the white officer got in Mr.
Majors’ face and taunted him, saying that if the officer were to slap Mr. Majors, the officer wouldn’t break his finger.
None of the white officers present investigated the assault of Mr. Majors. Worse, the District Attorney has not indicated any intention to pursue charges against the woman, or even investigate the truth”
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