{"id":1555347,"date":"2022-07-14T19:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T23:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555347"},"modified":"2022-07-14T19:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T23:34:24","slug":"kevin-spacey-pleads-not-guilty-in-uk-sexual-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-spacey-pleads-not-guilty-in-uk-sexual-assault-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Spacey Pleads Not Guilty In UK Sexual Assault Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkevin-spacey-pleads-not-guilty-in-uk-sexual-assault-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555347&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor Kevin Spacey made an appearance in a central London court on Thursday, where he pleaded \u201cnot guilty\u201d on four separate counts of sexual assault and one count of \u00a0\u201ccausing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three different men \u2014 all currently aged 30-40 \u2014 have made accusations against the two-time Oscar winner, claiming that the alleged offenses took place over a decade earlier, between 2005 and 2013. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/kevin-spacey-facing-sexual-assault-charges-in-u-k\/\">Spacey<\/a>, who has a home in South London, was the artistic director at the city\u2019s Old Vic theatre.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey will go on trial in London next year after pleading not guilty to accusations of sex offenses dating back almost 20 years <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ck3bOyQZsc\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ck3bOyQZsc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KRRGuBb4fm\">pic.twitter.com\/KRRGuBb4fm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1547613139750883328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.uk\/news\/kevin-spacey-appearing-in-london-court-to-enter-plea-on-sexual-assault-charges\/338123\">report<\/a> from Great Britain News, the charges are as follows: \u201ctwo counts of sexual assault on a man, who is now in his 40s, in March 2005 in London; sexual assault on a man, who is now in his 30s, and causing him to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent, in August 2008 in London; and sexual assault on a man, who is now in his 30s, in April 2013 in Gloucestershire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The charges against <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/kevin-spacey-ordered-to-pay-studio-31m-for-breaching-sex-harassment-policy\/\">Spacey<\/a> were authorized by the Crown Prosecution Service in May, but because he could not be charged in absentia, they were not considered \u201cformal\u201d until he arrived in the UK in June.<\/p>\n<p>Spacey\u2019s attorney,\u00a0Patrick Gibbs QC, said that his client had chosen to return to the UK expressly \u201cto establish his innocence\u201d and \u201cproceed with his life,\u201d adding that the acclaimed actor \u201cstrenuously denies any and all criminality in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spacey, 62, appeared in court in person for the 20-minute hearing, during which a trial date of June 6, 2023, was set.<\/p>\n<p>He remained quiet through most of the proceedings, saying \u201cnot guilty\u201d to each of the five alleged offenses and then adding, \u201cThank you, my lord,\u201d to the judge as the hearing came to a close.<\/p>\n<p>The actor has been granted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelawpages.com\/legal-directory\/bail-crown-magistrates-court.php\">unconditional bail<\/a>, meaning that he will not be jailed pending trial and no additional restrictions will be placed on him prior to his next appearance. The fact that he was given unconditional bail suggests the court believes he is not at risk of repeat offenses and will attend all required court sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Spacey could face six months or an unlimited fine on the lesser charges, or a maximum sentence of life in prison on the more serious charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Kevin Spacey made an appearance in a central London court on Thursday, where he pleaded \u201cnot guilty\u201d on four separate counts of sexual assault and one count of \u00a0\u201ccausing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\u201d Three different men \u2014 all currently aged 30-40 \u2014 have made accusations against the two-time &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1555394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1555394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}