Former porn star Ron Jeremy has been declared incompetent to face in his upcoming rape trial as a result of his extreme dementia.
In 2021, Jeremy was indicted on greater than 30 sexual assault counts involving 21 alleged victims during the last twenty years.
69-year-old Jeremy pleaded not responsible to all fees, which included 12 counts of forcible rape, seven counts of forcible oral copulation, and 6 counts of sexual battery by restraint.
Now, in keeping with an electronic mail obtained by the L.A. Times, L.A. County Deputy District Lawyer Paul Thompson revealed that psychological well being specialists on either side of the case revealed Jeremy’s dementia after the previous movie star stated he didn’t recognise his defence lawyer when his trial started in 2021.
Thompson wrote: “On account of the settlement of the specialists, the defendant will likely be declared incompetent to face trial … his prognosis for enchancment is just not good.
“If he doesn’t enhance, we will be unable to attempt him for his crimes. As a result of legal proceedings are suspended so long as he’s incompetent, we additionally can’t get a responsible plea from him or talk about different measures to get justice for the victims on this case.”
Jeremy will now seem in courtroom on January 17 and is now anticipated that he will likely be declared incompetent after which be transferred to a state-run hospital.
The actor, who’s nicknamed “The Hedgehog” is among the most prolific within the porn trade and has appeared in over 2,000 movies, has come up in opposition to comparable fees prior to now.
A case in opposition to him was declined by the District Lawyer’s Workplace in 2020 ‘as a result of inadequate proof stemming from an incident in 2016’.
This most up-to-date indictment covers allegations relationship from 1996 to 2020 with victims aged 15 to 51. The counts are believed to be similar to fees filed in opposition to Jeremy final 12 months, which he additionally denied.
Jeremy has been held in jail on $6.6million bail since his arrest in June 2020. If convicted of all fees, he might face a sentence of greater than 330 years to life in state jail.