A pretrial hearing took place on Monday in the sexual assault case against Kevin Spacey, and the actor got a bit of good news.
Lawyers for the disgraced Oscar winner presented multiple motions to the judge, and while none of those motions was pass, the judge did order that the man accusing Spacey of assault and his girlfriend-at-the-time preserve their phone and cloud records.
The defense wants to extend the time period for which they can obtain any texts of saved information in the accuser's cloud from January 2017 to December 2017.
That was the lone decision handed down on Monday, with the judge promising to rule on the other motions at the next hearing on April 4 in Nantucket.
Spacey was not on hand after being told back in January that he would not be needed for the appearance.
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Dynamic duo: Lawyers for Kevin Spacey (Spacey and Alan Jackson above in January) appeared in a Nantucket court room on Monday for a pretrial hearing, with the actor excused from attending in person
The defense team for the disgraced actor submitted five motions to the court last Wednesday, requesting that the young man who said he was sexually assaulted by the actor be required to hand over the entire contents of his cloud along with all relevant passwords.
Spacey's team is also seeking all correspondence regarding the case that was sent by the civil attorney hired by the victim's family.
That section of the 70-plus pages of court filings states that Mitchell Garabedian was hired to pursue a lawsuit for the family, and accuses the teen of using the criminal case to try and confirm his 'lies.'
Alan Jackson, the Los Angeles lawyer that is representing Spacey stated that the boy and his family 'have a significant financial motive to fabricate the instant allegations.'
Garabedian is being asked to hand over all correspondence between himself and the other lawyers at his firm with the district attorney's office.
Jackson also asked that judge that a copy of the contract with the victim's family and and the date, time and length of all appointments between the family and the law firm be turned over as well.
There is also concerns about an an investigation Garabedian did into the claims, with the defense expressing concern that they have not seen these reports.
Garabedian had stated that he turned his findings into law enforcement, and now the defense wants to make certain that detectives independently investigated all his findings.
This is nothing new for Garabedian, who was a key attorney for victims of the Catholic Church who sued the diocese.
That case was later made into the Oscar-winning film Spotlight, in which Garabedian was played by Stanley Tucci.
The filing also makes it clear that Spacey and his lawyers are looking to do a very deep dive into the accuser's personal accounts and phones.
As was already stated in earlier filings, Spacey and his team want access to every text the young man sent for the months before and after the dates of the alleged incident.
'Text messages consistent with statements provided to law enforcement are likely to reveal that [redacted] joked about the incident with friends for months after the incident and that his mother is the driving force behind these allegation,' states the court filing.
Home: The defense had filed five motions in the case on Wednesday, but the judge did not rule on any at the hearing on Monday (Spacey's Baltimore bolthole)
The defense also wants the credit card receipts for everyone who was at the bar that night so that they may try and
