If the revelation of text messages purportedly between Jonathan Majors and his girlfriend is any indication of the kind of evidence the movie star’s lawyer claims will exonerate him from assault charges, the uphill legal implications he’s facing may have just gotten significantly steeper.
Attorney Priya Chaudhry exuded confidence in her initial statements surrounding the police investigation into Majors’ alleged assault of his girlfriend in New York City. But a quick look back at some of the other high-profile cases she has handled suggests the outcome for the actor may not be as favorable as she predicted it would be.
Expectations were high after Chaudhry claimed in the immediate aftermath of Majors’ arrest that she had secured video footage as well as two separate “written statements” from the woman “recanting” her claims the actor strangled, assaulted and harassed her during a taxi ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan last weekend. But on Thursday, Chaudhry produced neither videos nor official statements.
Instead, Chaudhry made public a screenshot of a brief text message exchange purportedly between Majors and the woman that left even more questions than answers. It wasn’t exactly the flex she may have intended, as shown by reactions across social media. While there is no proof that Majors committed an assault, critics online suggested the texts’ self-blaming language was similar to the kinds of things “battered women” say to excuse abuse.
Below is an example of the type of discourse that flooded social media timelines after the texts were made public.
The release of the texts also cast aspersions on Chaudhry since they seemed to have the opposite effect she likely intended.
The texts — all apparently sent and received on Saturday before and after Majors was arrested — are absent of context and show one message supposedly from the actor asking if keys were left before he said “goodbye.”
Hours later, a…
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