Jane Doe # 5 is suing the Pollaccis? GO GIRL!!

Liu told jurors in his opening statement that his client and the woman had consensual sex and that she then fell from the second-story loft where they had been drinking wine together. Too embarrassed to admit she had sex with Pollacci, a registered sex offender, she made up the story and has since filed a federal lawsuit against Pollacci and his family, Liu said.

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Hear-old wrote that Defense Attorney Andy Lui wanted her arrested and brought to court to testify. Is that right?

The woman was subpoenaed to testify early Tuesday, but did not appear. Investigators testified she was angry about how she was treated at the preliminary hearing in the 1992 case.

Investigator Adam Sepegan said the woman felt Pollacci’s defense attorney made her out to be a “whore” on cross-examination and the prosecutor had done nothing to defend her.

The woman testified in 1992 that she believed Pollacci drugged her after he brought her home from a first date at Rocky Point Restaurant. She was angry he drank a large amount of alcohol and suggested that he should go home, but he walked her into her apartment.

She told police she got a glass of water and went to her bedroom to change. When she came out, she drank some of the water, she said. She testified she awoke the next morning thinking she was having a dream, only to realize Pollacci engaged in sex with her.

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Had to go to Reno for a paid expert? Couldn’t get anyone from Stanford?

A psychologist testifying on behalf of sex offender Thomas Pollacci on Friday said it was impossible for someone to “retrieve” memories that never existed and the effort to do so could create false recollections.

Deborah Davis, a University of Nevada Reno professor who is an expert on memory, said a head injury can prevent an event from being stored in the brain. She testified therapies that use imagery to recall a traumatic event have been shown to cause false memories.

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Perhaps the cruelest part of any rape trial, defense weasels make the victim out to be a willing participant.

Liu asked her if it was a “word-finding” problem that caused her to tell police during her final interview that she had consensual intercourse with Pollacci after a cordial and romantic dinner.

“I remember trying to articulate it with what ability I had,” she said tersely. “… There was sex but it did not involve me. It was consensual being there as a part of that experience.”

She said she never told anyone because it was embarrassing.

Reading from a transcript from the recorded interview, Liu said she told police she was embarrassed because of Pollacci’s reputation and her “own lack of self-control.”

“Are those the words that you were able to find?” he said.

Turning to 2008, Liu asked the woman if she told police that her verbal exchange with Pollacci in the loft was friendly bantering.

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