JURY INVOLVING TAYLOR SWIFT BEGAN TODAY, IT'S ALL OVER AN
ALLEGED SEXUAL ASSAULTS THAT SHE CLAIMS TO BE THE VICTIM OF.
THIS
TOOK PLACE A COUPLE YEARS AGO, IT INVOLVED A DEEJAY BY THE NAME
OF DAVID JACKSON MUELLER.
HE ALLEGEDLY LIFTED HER SKIRTS AND
GRABBED HER BUTT WHILE THEY WERE TAKING A PHOTO.
SHE ACCUSED HIM
OF DOING SO TO HIS EMPLOYER, HIS EMPLOYER FIRED HIM.
SHE NEVER
REPORTED IT TO THE AUTHORITIES.
HOWEVER HE IS NOW CLAIMING IT
WAS A FALSE ACCUSATION AND IT DESTROYED HIS CAREER.
HE IS
SUING HER, AND SHE IS COUNTERSUING HIM TO FIGHT BACK.
LET ME GIVE YOU DETAILS ON THIS CASE.
WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT
THIS IS THERE WAS EVIDENCE THAT HE ACCIDENTALLY DESTROYED ñ THE
BURDEN OF PROOF IS NOT A SERIOUS IF IT WOULD BE IF IT WAS A
MURDER CASE.
THE BURDEN OF PROOF FOR JURORS IN A CIVIL TRIAL DOES
NOT HAVE TO MEET THE SAME BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THRESHOLD.
FEDERAL CASES HAVE A LOWER THRESHOLD OF PROOF IN THAT
JURIES MUST ONLY BE CONVINCED BY A PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE
IN ORDER FOR ONE SIDE TO PREVAIL.
SO ONE PIECE OF
EVIDENCE IS THE PHOTO WE SHOWED YOU.
IT FEATURES HAM WITH TAYLOR
SWIFT.
HE LOOKS LIKE HIS HAND IS ON HER BUTT, BUT IT IS NOT
DEFINITIVE PROOF.
SHE ALSO CLAIMED HE LIFTED HER SKIRT.
THAT WILL BE EVIDENCE SHOWN.
HE WILL TESTIFY, SHE WILL ALSO
TESTIFY.
THE FACT THAT HE ACCIDENTALLY DESTROYED EVIDENCE
IN THE FORM OF A LAPTOP COMPUTER WILL PROBABLY ALSO BE
BROUGHT UP.
IT'S NOT GOING TO LOOK GOOD FOR HIM.
>> THAT IS THE MOST INTERESTING PART.
SHE IS NOT ALLEGING THAT
HE GRAZED HER BUTT.
ACCORDING TO HER ALLEGATIONS HE LIFTED UP HER
SKIRT AND PUT HIS HAND ON HER BARE BUTT.
THAT IS NOT A THING
YOU MISTAKE.
HE CLAIMS MAYBE HIS HAND SLIPPED IN THE PHOTO.
WHAT
IS TAYLOR SWIFT'S MOTIVATION AND MAKING IT UP.
SHE'S INCREDIBLY
FAMOUS AND RICH.
THE ONLY THING THIS CAN DO IS GET PEOPLE MAD AT
HER.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN SHE IS DEFINITELY TELLING THE TRUTH, IT
IS A DATA POINT.
IT IS AN IMPORTANT ONE.
LET'S LOOK AT THE
PICTURE ONE MORE TIME.
HE COULD TURN AROUND AND SAY IT DOESN'T
LOOK LIKE I LIFTED HER SKIRT IN THIS PICTURE, THAT IS
OUTRAGEOUS.
IT WILL BE INTERESTING
TO SEE WHO WINS.
IN
A CRIMINAL TRIAL THAT YOU HAVE TO BE 98% CERTAIN THE GUY DID
IT.
YOU WILL TAKE HIS LIBERTY, SOMETIMES HIS LIFE AWAY, ETC.
AND A CIVIL TRIAL YOU JUST WANT TO DETERMINE WHO IS MORE LIKELY
TO BE RIGHT.
KEEP THAT IN MIND.
WHEN IT COMES TO ñ THIS GUY GOT
FIRED NOT JUST FOR POSSIBLY GRABBING HER ASS, BUT HIS
EMPLOYERS DETERMINED THAT HE WAS LYING TO THEM.
>> LET ME GIVE YOU THE STATEMENTS.
HIS EMPLOYERS ASKED
HIM ABOUT IT SEVERAL TIMES, APPARENTLY HE CHANGE THE STORY
WHILE TALKING TO THEM ABOUT IT.
THEN THEY DECIDED TO FIRE HIM.
>> HERE'S THE PART I WOULD BE CLEAR WHICH DIRECTION I WAS
GOING TO GO, THEY ASK MUELLER, YOU SAY ñ HE SAYS I SPILLED
COFFEE ON MY LAPTOP.
IT HEADED TO OUR AUDIO FILE OF A PHONE
CALL WITH HIS EMPLOYER.
THAT SOUNDS FISHY, BUT MAYBE.
DIDN'T
REALLY DESTROY THE LAPTOP?
THEN THEY SAY YOU HAVE AN EXTERNAL
HARD DRIVE, THAT HAS A COPY.
HE SAID THE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE
JUST STOPPED WORKING.
THAT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.
SO LET ME
GET THIS RIGHT, USEFUL COFFEE, PLUS THE OTHER HARD DRIVE
STOPPED WORKING.
THAT IS OKAY, YOU HAVE A CELL PHONE THAT YOU
USE TO RECORD.
HE SAID AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT I THREW OUT THAT
CELL PHONE.
REALLY?
SO THAT IS THREE THINGS THAT HAVE THE
RECORDING OF YOU LYING OR MAYBE ADMITTING WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR
EMPLOYERS AND THEY ALL JUST HAPPENED TO NOT BE AVAILABLE.
IT
SEEMS PRETTY CLEAR WHICH WAY THIS IS GOING TO COME OUT.
I
KNOW WHAT HE IS THINKING.
THERE IS A BIG PAYDAY HERE.
HE DID GET
FIRED AND HIS CAREER IS SCREWED.
MAYBE NEXT TIME YOU SHOULD GRAB
ANYBODY'S ASS, LET ALONE A POWERFUL CELEBRITY WHO CAN
EASILY SAY YOU GRABBED MY ASS, AND THEN THAT WILL NOT WORK OUT
WELL FOR YOU IF YOU ARE A DJ.
NOW A QUARTER OF THE INTERNET
WILL HATER FOREVER BECAUSE ñ IT'S HER FAULT, SHE IS A WOMAN.
SHE HAS TO GO THROUGH ALL THAT CRAP, BUT SHE IS AT LEAST
FIGHTING TO SAY NO MORE.
SHE IS COUNTERSUING, AND I THINK GIVEN THE EVIDENCE HE IS
PROBABLY IN TROUBLE.