IW jury awards $1.85M in defamation lawsuit over false rape accusation

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2024-08-30 21:06

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'An Isle of Wight County jury, on Aug. 29, found that a Smithfield woman falsely accused her ex-fiance of rape, and ordered that she pay him $1.85 million in damages.

Virginia Beach lawyer Roger Hinde, 64, alleged in a 2022 lawsuit against 62-year-old Ana Meyers, also spelled “Myers” in other court documents, that the two met in August 2021 via the online dating website match.com and became engaged later that year.

Hinde’s lawsuit accused Meyers of “malicious prosecution” and “defamation and slander” for having gone to a magistrate days after the couple split up in May 2022 and taken out four felony warrants accusing Hinde of rape and three counts of sexual battery.'

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