Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Lawyer compared the embattled star to Democrat Presidential frontrunner Joe Biden in his court case in which multiple women have accused him of groping them. As Fox News reports:
Cuba Gooding Jr.’s attorney tried to defend the actor from groping allegations Tuesday — by comparing the charges to complaints leveled at Joe Biden for getting too handsy with a female politician.
“This indictment constitutes a distorted overreaction pandering to the current hypersensitive climate where innocent common-place gestures are now misperceived and mischaracterized as offensive as exemplified by the incredible condemnation of former Vice President Joseph Biden, who innocently touched a woman’s shoulder,” said defense lawyer Mark Jay Heller in Manhattan Supreme Court.
I don’t think mentioning girls is wise #CreepyJoeBiden pic.twitter.com/yCOcL9hJpG
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Heller gave the eyebrow-raising defense after the Oscar-winning actor was arraigned on four misdemeanor counts of sex abuse and forcible touching. He’s accused of squeezing a woman’s breast June 9 at a Midtown hotel bar and pinching another woman’s butt Oct. 24, 2018, at lower Manhattan nightclub TAO.
Biden landed in hot water in March after former Nevada politician Lucy Flores penned an op-ed for New York magazine, saying the former vice president and current presidential candidate made her feel “gross” when he grabbed her by the shoulders from behind and kissed her hair during a Las Vegas campaign event.
If Gooding’s lawyer is attempting to marshal sympathy for his embattled client, mentioning Joe Biden’s bizarre and creepy behavior toward women probably isn’t the way to do it.
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