UPDATE, JULY 8, 2023: A decide dismissed intercourse assault fees in opposition to a former actuality TV surgeon and his girlfriend on Friday.
Orange County Superior Court docket Decide Michael Leversen stated there was inadequate proof on allegations that the couple drugged and sexually assaulted two accusers. The couple claimed they had been swingers and that each one acts had been consensual.
They’re nonetheless going through lesser fees of drug and gun possession and poisoning. They’re free on $1 million bail forward of a trial.
UPDATE, June 15, 2023: A former actuality present star and surgeon and his girlfriend await a decide’s determination on whether or not they may stand trial for allegedly drugging and sexually abusing ladies.
Dr. Grant Robixcheaux and girlfriend Cerissa Riley declare they’re swingers and that an any acts had been consensual.
An Orange County listening to this week included testimony from two ladies who claimed they had been assaulted by the 2.
A decide will decide on July 9 as as to whether there’s sufficient proof to go to trial.
UPDATE: An Orange County decide has authorized a request by prosecutors to scale back fees in opposition to a Newport Seashore hand surgeon and his girlfriend, who’ve been accused of drugging and raping a number of ladies. The transfer means Dr. Grant Robicheaux, who starred on an episode of the 2014 Bravo actuality present On-line Courting Rituals of the American Male, and Cerissa Riley are actually going through fees involving solely two alleged victims. The pair have each pleaded not responsible to the amended fees.
Prosecutors have reportedly interviewed no less than 13 alleged victims. At one time, Robicheaux was charged with harming seven victims and Riley with 5. On the identical time, prosecutors requested to dismiss three firearms enhancements in opposition to Robicheaux and Riley and to scale back 4 felony fees of drug possession on the market to misdemeanors. The decide within the case had requested the state to file a quick explaining why it deliberate to dismiss sure fees earlier than he decided.
EARLIER: Prosecutors stated Friday that intend to go ahead with a brand new criticism charging a former actuality star and his girlfriend.
Grant Robicheaux, 40, and girlfriend Cerissa Riley, 34, had been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a number of ladies. The brand new fees will contain downsizing the instances to no less than two alleged victims.
Julie Garland and Mary Katherine Strickland of the Lawyer Normal’s Workplace informed Orange County Superior Court docket Decide Frank Ospino Friday that they intend to file an amended criticism. The brand new cost would contain two ladies as an alternative of the earlier 5. The brand new criticism would additionally reportedly modify drug fees within the case to extra precisely mirror the allegations, they stated.
Robicheaux is at the moment charged with sexually assaulting 5 ladies and Riley is charged with three alleged victims. At one time, Robicheaux was charged with seven victims and Riley with 5.
Prosecutors have reportedly interviewed no less than 13 alleged victims.
A earlier movement indicated that an unbiased evaluation indicated that some allegations couldn’t be proved past an inexpensive doubt.
EARLIER: State prosecutors moved on Friday to dismiss a number of rape fees in opposition to Dr. Grant Robicheaux, who starred on an episode of the 2014 Bravo actuality present On-line Courting Rituals of the American Male.
Robicheaux and his girlfriend, Cerissa Riley, stood accused of a number of rapes in Newport Seashore, Calif.
By dismissing rape fees in opposition to them, prosecutors will think about a 2017 sexual assault cost in opposition to the 2. That case was bolstered by new allegations that medicine had been utilized in that assault.
The case in opposition to the 2 started two years in the past, with Robicheaux, 40, and Riley, 33, painted as sexual predators who preyed on weak ladies. They had been accused of drugging ladies they’d meet at varied Newport Seashore venues after which taking them to their Newport Seashore residence to sexually assault them.
Robicheaux was charged with sexually assaulting seven ladies, with Riley charged with 5 assaults. They’ve each pleaded not responsible and have denied that something that occurred was not consensual.
Prosecutors requested to dismiss 10 intercourse crime fees involving six of Robicheaux’s seven accusers. The movement indicated that an unbiased evaluation indicated that some allegations couldn’t be proved past an inexpensive doubt.
On the identical time, prosecutors requested to dismiss three firearms enhancements in opposition to Robicheaux and Riley and to scale back 4 felony fees of drug possession on the market to misdemeanors.
On Friday, the decide within the case requested the state to file a quick explaining why it plans to dismiss sure fees earlier than he decides.
If the decide decides to grant the prosecutor’s needs, the state will transfer its focus to an incident that occurred in April 2017. The couple had been charged of assault with intent to commit a sexual offense.
In that incident, Robicheaux allegedly started chatting with the girl on a relationship app. They agreed to fulfill in individual at a Newport Seashore restaurant, with Riley becoming a member of them and posing as a good friend.
The group later went to a bar, and prosecutors allege the alleged sufferer’s drinks had been drugged. The lady, described as in her 20s, awakened within the couple’s residence through the sexual assault. She ran to the toilet and locked herself inside till the morning.
Prosecutors declare Robicheaux and Riley administered medicine with the intention to “engage in sexual intercourse with an incapacitated victim.” In addition they allegedly gave the girl cocaine and PCP.
“The defendants’ actions of facilitating the victim’s excessive consumption of alcohol and drugs to ultimately prevent her from possessing the ability to resist sexual intercourse was the underlying motivation for their behavior,” state prosecutors wrote of their movement.
Metropolis Information Service contributed to this report.
UPDATE, June 15, 2023: A former actuality present star and surgeon and his girlfriend await a decide’s determination on whether or not they may stand trial for allegedly drugging and sexually abusing ladies.
Dr. Grant Robixcheaux and girlfriend Cerissa Riley declare they’re swingers and that an any acts had been consensual.
An Orange County listening to this week included testimony from two ladies who claimed they had been assaulted by the 2.
A decide will decide on July 9 as as to whether there’s sufficient proof to go to trial.
UPDATE: An Orange County decide has authorized a request by prosecutors to scale back fees in opposition to a Newport Seashore hand surgeon and his girlfriend, who’ve been accused of drugging and raping a number of ladies. The transfer means Dr. Grant Robicheaux, who starred on an episode of the 2014 Bravo actuality present On-line Courting Rituals of the American Male, and Cerissa Riley are actually going through fees involving solely two alleged victims. The pair have each pleaded not responsible to the amended fees.
Prosecutors have reportedly interviewed no less than 13 alleged victims. At one time, Robicheaux was charged with harming seven victims and Riley with 5. On the identical time, prosecutors requested to dismiss three firearms enhancements in opposition to Robicheaux and Riley and to scale back 4 felony fees of drug possession on the market to misdemeanors. The decide within the case had requested the state to file a quick explaining why it deliberate to dismiss sure fees earlier than he decided.
EARLIER: Prosecutors stated Friday that intend to go ahead with a brand new criticism charging a former actuality star and his girlfriend.
Grant Robicheaux, 40, and girlfriend Cerissa Riley, 34, had been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a number of ladies. The brand new fees will contain downsizing the instances to no less than two alleged victims.
Julie Garland and Mary Katherine Strickland of the Lawyer Normal’s Workplace informed Orange County Superior Court docket Decide Frank Ospino Friday that they intend to file an amended criticism. The brand new cost would contain two ladies as an alternative of the earlier 5. The brand new criticism would additionally reportedly modify drug fees within the case to extra precisely mirror the allegations, they stated.
Robicheaux is at the moment charged with sexually assaulting 5 ladies and Riley is charged with three alleged victims. At one time, Robicheaux was charged with seven victims and Riley with 5.
Prosecutors have reportedly interviewed no less than 13 alleged victims.
A earlier movement indicated that an unbiased evaluation indicated that some allegations couldn’t be proved past an inexpensive doubt.
EARLIER: State prosecutors moved on Friday to dismiss a number of rape fees in opposition to Dr. Grant Robicheaux, who starred on an episode of the 2014 Bravo actuality present On-line Courting Rituals of the American Male.
Robicheaux and his girlfriend, Cerissa Riley, stood accused of a number of rapes in Newport Seashore, Calif.
By dismissing rape fees in opposition to them, prosecutors will think about a 2017 sexual assault cost in opposition to the 2. That case was bolstered by new allegations that medicine had been utilized in that assault.
The case in opposition to the 2 started two years in the past, with Robicheaux, 40, and Riley, 33, painted as sexual predators who preyed on weak ladies. They had been accused of drugging ladies they’d meet at varied Newport Seashore venues after which taking them to their Newport Seashore residence to sexually assault them.
Robicheaux was charged with sexually assaulting seven ladies, with Riley charged with 5 assaults. They’ve each pleaded not responsible and have denied that something that occurred was not consensual.
Prosecutors requested to dismiss 10 intercourse crime fees involving six of Robicheaux’s seven accusers. The movement indicated that an unbiased evaluation indicated that some allegations couldn’t be proved past an inexpensive doubt.
On the identical time, prosecutors requested to dismiss three firearms enhancements in opposition to Robicheaux and Riley and to scale back 4 felony fees of drug possession on the market to misdemeanors.
On Friday, the decide within the case requested the state to file a quick explaining why it plans to dismiss sure fees earlier than he decides.
If the decide decides to grant the prosecutor’s needs, the state will transfer its focus to an incident that occurred in April 2017. The couple had been charged of assault with intent to commit a sexual offense.
In that incident, Robicheaux allegedly started chatting with the girl on a relationship app. They agreed to fulfill in individual at a Newport Seashore restaurant, with Riley becoming a member of them and posing as a good friend.
The group later went to a bar, and prosecutors allege the alleged sufferer’s drinks had been drugged. The lady, described as in her 20s, awakened within the couple’s residence through the sexual assault. She ran to the toilet and locked herself inside till the morning.
Prosecutors declare Robicheaux and Riley administered medicine with the intention to “engage in sexual intercourse with an incapacitated victim.” In addition they allegedly gave the girl cocaine and PCP.
“The defendants’ actions of facilitating the victim’s excessive consumption of alcohol and drugs to ultimately prevent her from possessing the ability to resist sexual intercourse was the underlying motivation for their behavior,” state prosecutors wrote of their movement.
Metropolis Information Service contributed to this report.
