Trevor Bauer’s accuser asks court to void subpoena, end his ‘witch hunt’

Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer is participating in a “witch hunt” in opposition to the lady who accused him of sexual assault by pursuing an “unauthorized subpoena” for her cellphone information, attorneys for the lady argued in a court docket submitting Friday.

In asking a Los Angeles Superior Courtroom decide to throw out the subpoena, the attorneys claimed Bauer continues to battle in a restraining order case that was determined seven months in the past and wrote: “Mr. Bauer’s harassing and abusive conduct in retaliation should cease.”

A listening to is ready April 4. Bauer is on go away from the Dodgers by way of a minimum of April 16.

The lady’s request for a restraining order was denied, and the Los Angeles County district legal professional subsequently declined to cost Bauer with against the law. Main League Baseball can droop Bauer for violating its sexual assault coverage, even within the absence of any fees.

No matter data Bauer may be taught from these information might assist him argue that he did nothing mistaken, as he claimed in a video final month, and that he shouldn’t be suspended for what he mentioned have been two nights of tough however consensual intercourse.

Bauer’s attorneys have instructed the court docket they believed the information might present how the lady carried out “a plan to hunt tough intercourse so she might later search to revenue.” Within the listening to on the restraining order, the lady’s attorneys denied she pursued the case for fame or cash.

His attorneys have instructed the court docket the information might assist their competition that her attorneys have been conscious they have been “misusing a continuing designed to guard actual victims of home violence to achieve publicity” and Bauer thus ought to be reimbursed for his authorized charges.

Bauer served the subpoena to the Pasadena Police Division, which obtained the cellphone throughout its sexual assault investigation. The town of Pasadena initially objected to Bauer’s subpoena, partially over issues “future victims of sexual abuse could also be dissuaded from reporting abuse” in the event that they believed their private information may very well be opened to the general public or the alleged perpetrator of the abuse, even exterior a trial.

Bauer’s attorneys subsequently supplied the court docket with a letter from town legal professional by which Pasadena agreed to show over the telephone information on the situation the court docket would decide which of them have been related and supply applicable confidentiality.

The lady’s attorneys alleged Bauer has neither sought nor obtained approval from the court docket to subject the subpoena, as an alternative pursuing “back-door negotiations” with Pasadena to acquire the lady’s non-public information, with out involving her in these negotiations.

“Mr. Bauer can not ignore or get rid of her issues by merely ignoring her and excluding her from … discussions,” her attorneys wrote.

Her attorneys requested that Bauer reimburse them for “at least $10,000” in authorized charges incurred in combating the subpoena.