Las Vegas District Attorney Jennifer Dorsey dropped the case from court on Friday to punish woman’s lawyer Leslie Mark Stovall for “misconduct” and the use of burglary and stolen documents detailing client-lawyer discussions. of Ronaldo and his. Lawyers. Dorsey said this marked the case beyond redemption. Dorsey said in her 42-page order that the final rejection of a case without the option of re-filing was a severe sanction, but said Ronaldo had been hurt by Stoval’s conduct. “I note that the supply and continued use of these documents was in bad faith, and the mere exclusion of Stovall will not cure Ronaldo’s prejudice because their forged documents and confidential content have been linked to (Kathryn) Mayorga’s allegations. . “, The decision stated. “They deserve tough sanctions.” Stovall did not immediately respond to phone and email messages on Saturday. Text messages to colleague Larissa Drohobyczer were not answered. They could appeal the decision to the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Ronaldo’s lawyer in Las Vegas, Peter Christiansen, was traveling and was not immediately available for comment. The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they are sexually assaulted, but Mayorga gave her consent through Stovall and Drohobyczer to make her name public. Dorsey had said earlier this year that it was ready to close the case after Stovall failed to meet a procedural deadline in his bid for more than $ 25 million in allegations that Ronaldo or his associates had breached a confidentiality agreement. 2010 leaving reports on. appear in European editions in 2017. Mayorga’s civil lawsuit – filed in state court in 2018 and transferred to federal court in 2019 – claimed that Ronaldo or his associates violated the confidentiality agreement before the German news agency Der Spiegel published an article entitled “The Secret Based on documents obtained from “Football Leaks Complaint Portal.” Ronaldo’s legal team has accused reports of electronic data leaks of documents that were breached by law firms and other entities in Europe and put up for sale. Christiansen also claimed that the information had been tampered with or fabricated. Christiansen and lawyer Kendelee Works in Las Vegas have fought successfully since the case came to light in 2018 to prevent the deal from being revealed. Mayorga is a former model and teacher living in the Las Vegas area. Her lawsuit states that she met Ronaldo at a nightclub and took him and other people to his hotel suite, where she claimed he had attacked her in a bedroom. He was 25 years old then. It was 24. Ronaldo’s legal team does not deny that Ronaldo met Majorga and had sex in June 2009, but claimed it was consensual and not rape. Mayorga went to Las Vegas police at the time, but the investigation was halted because Mayorga neither identified the alleged perpetrator by her name nor said where the incident took place, police and prosecutors said. Ronaldo, 37 years old today, is one of the highest paid and most recognizable sports stars in the world. He plays for the English team of the Premier League Manchester United and has the captain of the national team of his homeland, Portugal. He spent a lot of the last few years playing in Italy for Juventus based in Turin. Las Vegas police reopened their rape investigation after Mayorga’s lawsuit was filed, but Clark County Prosecutor Steve Wolfson decided in 2019 not to prosecute. Wolfson, the Las Vegas attorney general, said it was too late and the evidence did not show that Mayorga’s indictment could prove a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. Stovall argued that Mayorga did not violate the settlement agreement. Her lawsuit sought to be annulled, accusing Ronaldo and the “correctors” of protecting his reputation for conspiracy, defamation, breach of contract, coercion and fraud. In documents filed last year, Stovall estimated the damages at $ 25 million plus a lawyer’s fees. The lawyer argued that Mayorga had learning disabilities as a child and was under so much pressure from Ronaldo’s lawyers and representatives that she was in no way consenting to the withdrawal of her criminal complaint and the acceptance of $ 375,000 in August 2010. Dorsey followed recommendations from U.S. Judge Daniel Albrecht, who handled the case ‘s preliminary and procedural decisions, dismissing Stovall’ bad faith, ‘misbehavior’ and invoking leaked and stolen confidential documents. “There is no way this case can proceed when the court cannot say what arguments and testimonies are based on these privileged documents,” Albrechts said in an October 2021 report to Dorsey. Stoval “acted in bad faith by soliciting, receiving and using Football Leaks documents to prosecute Majorga’s case,” Albregz wrote. He accused Stovall of “brazen”, “arrogant” and “abusive” attempts to disclose the confidentiality agreement through legal maneuvers and case law, and advised Dorsey to reject Stovall’s claim that Mayorga did not have the mental capacity to sign the agreement. 2010. The 9th Circuit decided earlier this year that it was up to Dorsey to decide this question. It was not immediately clear in Dorsey’s decision whether the public could still see the Las Vegas police report on Ronaldo after Mayorga’s lawsuit was filed in 2018. Albrecht said in March that the New York Times’ denial of access to what police had collected would almost certainly create the “ghost of government censorship.” He advised Dorsey to take the newspaper’s request for open archives for documents to a state court. A protection order imposed by Dorsey to prevent the release of the 2010 agreement does not apply to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Albrechts said, and “does not prevent the LVMPD from disseminating its criminal record.” Lawyer Margaret McLetchie, who represents the newspaper, did not immediately respond to a message on Saturday about the case.
