"A federal jury in Manhattan found Kevin Spacey not liable for battery... after the actor Anthony Rapp filed a lawsuit accusing Mr. Spacey of climbing on top of him and making a sexual advance when Mr. Rapp was 14."

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The NYT reports. 

The 11-person jury in the Federal District Court in Manhattan spent less than 90 minutes deliberating.... The trial hinged on Mr. Rapp’s account of a night in 1986, when, he said, he attended a party at Mr. Spacey’s New York apartment during a Broadway season in which both of them were acting in plays. Mr. Spacey, who was 26 at the time, has denied that such an encounter ever occurred....

This was a tort case, and the burden of proof, which Rapp did not meet, was a mere preponderance of the evidence. 

Spacey testified and "denied that the encounter ever happened... that he had never been alone with Mr. Rapp."

A lawyer for Mr. Spacey, Jennifer L. Keller, also argued in court that Mr. Rapp had fabricated his story by borrowing details from “Precious Sons,” the Broadway play he was in that year. She said that in the play a character drunkenly mistakes his son, played by Mr. Rapp, for his wife, picking him up and lying on top of him in a way that mirrors Mr. Rapp’s allegations.

Mr. Rapp said his encounter with Mr. Spacey was unrelated to the staging of the play....

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