T.I. & Tiny Ask Judge To Throw Out Sexual Assault & Battery Lawsuit
T.I. (severe name Clifford Harris) and his spouse Small (genuine determine Tameka Harris) ended up sued for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting a female earlier this calendar year, and the handful of are now striving to have the circumstance dismissed.
In January, a man or lady determined as Jane Doe filed a lawsuit from the two for a 2005 incident with claims of “sexual battery, assault, carelessness and wrong imprisonment” in addition to the crimes described more than.
According to lawful paperwork received and published by AllHipHop on Friday (July 5), the defendants are now challenging the validity of the civil complaint in a California courtroom.
“All the claims asserted in the Complaint are time-barred simply because the statute of limitations for these statements has lengthy expired above sixteen years in the past,” their attorneys argued. “Further, notwithstanding the truth that Defendants Clifford Harris (‘Mr. Harris’) and Tameka Harris (‘Mrs. Harris’) (collectively ‘Defendants’ or ‘Harrises’), deny that any of the alleged perform even occurred, the Complaint fails to allege facts to sufficiently create any of the promises alleged in the Complaint.
“Accordingly, Defendants seek to dismiss all the promises in the Complaint … for failure to condition a claim on which any aid can be granted. Mainly because there is no achievable cure for these deficiencies … Defendants seek out dismissal of this whole action.”
The pair are hoping to have the circumstance dismissed with prejudice. That generally indicates, if the movement is productive, Jane Doe will be unable to refile the criticism.
For every the lawsuit, the Atlanta rap legend and his spouse allegedly met up with the plaintiff at a nightclub in Los Angeles although she was enlisted in the Air Force.
The female believes that Small could have tampered with a individual of her beverages, adhering to which she and two other ladies seemingly ended up at a resort property with the “What You Know” rapper and his spouse. Just soon after showering with the Southern MC and his spouse and massaging him although he viewed porn, she alleges that Tip penetrated her vagina with his toe even even though she constantly told him not to do so.
“Are you alright? Seems to be like you in final position,” she claimed he stated to her instantly soon after she went to the bathroom to vomit.
The lady statements to have then handed out, only to be escorted out of the hotel region the pursuing early morning while she was nonetheless in “serious pain.”
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Though the episode in problem occurred just about two a lengthy time ago, the window to refile the lawsuit has been reopened numerous thanks to California’s Sexual Abuse and Include Up Accountability Act.
T.I. and Little have vehemently denied all of the accusations, writing it off as an extortion endeavor.
In a statement shared with HipHopDX, the couple’s authorized employees wrote: “On the heels of positivity, negativity always rears its unappealing head. This plaintiff has been threatening to file this lawsuit for A few a long time. For Three several years, we have emphatically and categorically denied these allegations.
“For Three decades we have managed our innocence and refused to pay out these extortionate calls for for factors we didn’t do. For Three many years, we have taken care of the identical position although the statements in this story have transformed time and time again. Our placement is clear… We are innocent of these faux statements, we will not be shaken down, and we look ahead to our day in court.”
