Sexual Assault Charges Against ‘Atomic Blonde’ Producer David Guillod Dismissed by Judge
thewrap.comJessica Barth and another incident involving an unnamed waitress from 2018 who claimed she was raped. But the Santa Barbara district attorney’s office was forced to drop the charges Tuesday after it was unable to show whether the attacks happened within the DA’s jurisdiction.
The case will now be referred back to the Los Angeles district attorney’s office, though the L.A. DA has declined to prosecute the case.
The Santa Barbara judge, Judge James Voysey had back in May previously authorized the two charges and ordered Guillod to stand trial.
But the same judge had dismissed rape and sexual assault charges connected with four other women, who accused him of assault or rape while they were drugged or intoxicated between 2012 and 2020, after determining there was insufficient evidence to try Guillod.Voysey had also questioned the credibility of the women in the case, in one instance citing text messages between Guillod and the accuser corroborating witness testimony that she had cuddled and flirted with him at the 2014 company retreat where she accused him of raping her. “What she said and what she did are very telling,” Voysey said, according to Santa Barbara local site Noozhawk. “Those behaviors tell the court [she] didn’t think she was raped that night.” However, people who were at the retreat in Santa Barbara County had a different take when they spoke to TheWrap in 2017 about the incident.
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