Taylor Swift wins groping trial
Unanimous verdict against ex-radio DJ David Mueller
Taylor Swift has won. After just a few hours of deliberation, the jury in Swift’s groping trial reached a unanimous verdict Monday: They believe Swift was groped — assaulted and battered, in legal terms — by ex-Denver radio DJ David Mueller in 2013.
Also, the jury decided that Swift’s mother, Andrea, and a manager, Frank Bell, were not responsible for Mueller’s firing, that they were within their rights to contact Mueller’s bosses about what Swift said happened to her during a photo op at a preconcert meet-and-greet.
The verdict is a total vindica- tion for Swift and her team, and a total loss for Mueller. The two have spent the last two years in dueling civil lawsuits. The decision comes at the end of a six-day trial in federal court in Denver.
“I want to thank Judge William J. Martinez and the jury for their careful consideration, my attorneys ... for fighting for me and anyone who feels silenced by a sexual assault, and especially any- one who offered their support throughout this four-year ordeal and two-year long trial process,” Swift said in a statement.
Swift already was a winner in the case: On Friday she was dropped as a defendant in Mueller’s 2015 lawsuit charging her with pressuring Denver radio station KYGO to fire him for alleged-