US lawyer representing woman in civil claim against Jarryd Hayne a veteran of rape claims
ONE of the US lawyers squaring up against Jarryd Hayne is a veteran of rape claims against sporting stars and the other holds a legal Street Fighter of the Year award.
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ONE of the US lawyers squaring up against Jarryd Hayne is a veteran of rape claims against sporting stars and the other holds a legal Street Fighter of the Year award.
Veteran rape claim lawyer John Clune, 47, and civil rights lawyer Micha Star Liberty are jointly representing the 25-year-old restaurant worker known as Ms J.V.
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Mr Clune is part of the team at Boulder firm Hutchinson Black and Cook which has taken on what he calls “David and Goliath” cases against gender violence.
In 2003 he represented the 19-year-old woman who accused former basketball star Kobe Bryant of raping her at the mountain resort where she worked at the front desk. Bryant said the sex was consensual.
Two years later the case settled out of court after the woman decided not to testify in the criminal trial, and Bryant issued an apology.
Since then the former Colorado prosecutor has specialised in representing alleged victims of sex crimes, including a former Baylor University soccer player who claimed she was raped in a case that exposed a culture of sexual assault at the world’s largest Baptist university.
Ms Liberty, who runs her own firm, was in 2015 awarded the Street Fighter of the Year award by the Consumer Attorneys of California after successfully holding the Contra Costa County School District accountable for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old special needs student by another special needs student.
Representing Hayne is Sydney property specialist Ramy Qutami, whose clients include controversial former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer.