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.
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.
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.
Pollacci Rape Trial: Reno Professor Says Memory Retrieval False
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.
ewwww.
Earlier Wednesday, the woman described an encounter with Pollacci in 1995, when she lived across the street from his parents’ home in Pebble Beach.
Jane Doe 5 said she accepted an invitation to visit him as he cooked dinner at the house, a date that turned sour when she discovered he was masturbating as he gave her a shoulder massage.
She said she ran home, with Pollacci in pursuit, claiming they were “having a good time,” and she finally sent him away by threatening to call the police.
Should get to hypnotize Tom Pollacci and see what spews from his mouth..
The woman admitted she does not remember the details of having intercourse with Pollacci, but knows she was at the liquor store and something bad happened at the Pacific Grove liquor store owned by Pollacci’s family.
She said she’s had three visions of the attack and in one of them Pollacci laughed and asked if she had ever experienced anything like that before. The trial is expected to continue on Wednesday.
Victim #1 tells story of kidnap & rape when she was 16 and Pollacci was 20.
Identified in court as “Jane Doe 1,” the 45-year-old woman testified that “Tommy” Pollacci and a man later identified as “Davey” showed up at her home while she was getting ready for school one morning 30 years ago. When she opened the door in her bathrobe, she said, they grabbed her, threw her in Pollacci’s car and took her against her will to a concealed spot along Carmel River.
While Davey held her down, she said, Pollacci raped her near the river’s edge.
Talk about being scared and uncomfortable. Give them the strength to overcome the fear.
Investigator Adam Sepagan said the woman felt Pollacci’s defense attorney made her out to be a “whore” and that the district attorney failed to come to her defense. Pollacci pleaded guilty to sexual battery in the case.
Prosecutor Michael Breeden told Judge Russell Scott this morning that the woman had the right to refuse testimony under the Sexual Assault Victim’s Bill of Rights. He wants to present the current jury with a transcript of her testimony from 1992.
Friday afternoon, a retired bail bondsmen said Pollacci’s arrest for the 1992 attack on Jane Doe4 prompted a shocking confession in the basement at the Monterey Courthouse.
Robert Stevenson said he met in the snack bar with a man he’d bailed out of jail and the man’s attorney, the late Bill Bryan. The attorney told his client not to discuss his case with anyone and left. The bondsman said Pollacci then began bragging about how he had raped a girl in broad daylight in a parking lot and how it was “good sex.”
“He was like a little boy that was happy or having a birthday party, talking about it,” Stevenson said. “He was weird.”
But arrested for ?
Pollacci’s response to the woman’s grievous injuries was “a total breech of responsibility and judgment,” Liu said, but he did not commit rape in April 2008 or in the past.
The attorney noted Pollacci was convicted only of sexual battery in one of the past cases and said there was no corroboration of allegations by the other women. One of them, he said, was “motivated by the media.”
Breeden said that woman will testify she was kidnapped and raped by Pollacci when she was a high school student in the early 1980s. At a time when people believed “good girls don’t get raped,” she did not report the assault. After reading about Pollacci’s arrest in 2009, he said, she contacted a local news reporter who referred her to the District Attorney’s Office.