An Orange County Superior Court judge agreed to a woman’s request to pause her civil lawsuit against a Newport Beach surgeon who she alleges drugged and raped her in 2016.
The plaintiff asked Judge Walter Schwarm to stay proceedings in the suit until the doctor’s related criminal case concludes., and a couple who partly own the Newport Beach home where the assault allegedly occurred argued that they have the right to depose the plaintiff and other witnesses to mount a defense, adding that the motion to stay the case amounted to a ruse by the plaintiff’s attorney to wait and see what evidence becomes public during the criminal proceeding.
The plaintiff’s attorney, Alexis Bastedo, said her client is asserting her rights under Marsy’s Law, which allows alleged crime victims in California to refuse defendants’ requests for interviews or pretrial testimony. through a mutual acquaintance at a Halloween party in 2016. Prosecutors allege the couple drugged the woman’s drink with GHB and raped her in the bedroom of their home.
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