Jonathan Majors’ misdemeanor assault trial was delayed once again Friday to allow prosecutors a chance to respond to the “Creed III” star’s claims that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office “buried” the video of his accuser being spun by her supposedly broken finger at a dance club. after the alleged attack.
Majors, 34, dressed in a light tan polo shirt, appeared virtually on a flat-screen monitor during a brief hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, where a judge delayed the start of his trial until at least Oct. 25.
The appearance came days after Majors’ attorneys, Priya Chaudhry and Seth Zuckerman, accused prosecutors of burying evidence that is “inconvenient” to the DA’s case amid a massive trove of information turned over to the defense team. .
Majors is accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend during a fight in Chelsea in March, and the “Lovecraft Country” star has faced more allegations of abuse after an explosive exposé in Rolling Stone that featured a dozen sources describing the alleged treatment of the actor toward his exes, including one of his unnamed girlfriends, suffers “really extreme abuse, physical and mental.”
Majors has consistently maintained his innocence, and his lawyers argue that it was actually his ex, Grace Jabbari, 30, who attacked him in the March 25 incident.
Law enforcement sources told The Post that NYPD investigators had discovered there was probable cause to arrest Jabbari, a professional dancer, after the episode. But prosecutors did not believe that version of events and arrested Majors, charging him with assault, harassment and strangulation that was later dropped.
Evidence released by Majors’ lawyers shows his accuser was comforted minutes after the alleged attack. Court documents
Majors’ accuser went dancing at a lower Manhattan nightclub hours after an alleged attack, lawyers say. Court documents
“Instead of dismissing false charges against an innocent black man, the People have intentionally withheld evidence of his innocence” and “buried evidence proving that his white accuser is lying,” Majors’ attorneys wrote in new court papers filed in the case on Tuesday.
Majors’ team also released several videos from the night of the episode as evidence in court.
One of the videos, obtained by The Post, shows a woman dressed in an outfit similar to the one Jabbari was wearing that night being spun, “ballroom dancing style,” by her “allegedly broken finger” hours after the alleged attack at a club. night called Looseie’s. on the Bowery in lower Manhattan.
Majors’ attorneys say the woman in the video is Jabbari, and that the video helps Majors’ case because it shows Jabbari was still in a good enough mood after the alleged attack to go out with friends.
The “Creed III” star faces misdemeanor charges of assault and harassment as a result of the alleged attack. Steven Hirsch
A second video released in the public court docket shows Jabbari approaching a group of strangers on the sidewalk 8 minutes after the alleged attack, Majors’ attorneys say.
It’s difficult to make out every word spoken in the video, which was obtained from surveillance cameras at a nearby apartment building, but Jabbari is seen sobbing and distraught in the footage.
“We can’t leave this girl!” says one of the passersby Jabbari talks to during the video, as he offers to hail a taxi for him.
The video ends with Majors appearing in the frame, before Jabbari and the three strangers follow him out of the frame.
The majors’ attorneys, Priya Chaudhry and Seth Zuckerman, have urged a judge to dismiss the case. Steven Hirsch
Majors’ attorneys wrote Tuesday that the video shows Jabbari was “unharmed” after the alleged attack and asked that the case be dismissed.
Lawyers have also claimed that prosecutors did not promptly turn over a taxi driver’s statement from the night of the incident, in which the driver called Jabbari a “psychopathic girl” and alleged that Jabbari was the aggressor in the encounter.
A spokesman for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office declined to comment Friday.
Prosecutors must address the arguments in legal filings by Oct. 6.
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