Man who says Spacey groped him invokes right not to testify

The man who accused Kevin Spacey of groping him at a Massachusetts resort island bar in 2016 asserted his Fifth Amendment [wut] right against self-incrimination [wut] and refused to testify Monday after being questioned about text messages [Spacey's] defense [atty] claims were deleted.

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After being pressed by Spacey's lawyer about whether he knew that altering evidence used in a prosecution is a crime, the man invoked [Fifth Amendment protection], and the judge said his testimony Monday would be stricken from the record.
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The judge said he would not immediately dismiss the case, but acknowledged prosecutors would have a tough time bringing it to trial if the man won't testify. "Once exercised, it may be pretty hard to get around this privilege at trial," Judge Thomas Barrett said.

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The allegations were first made in 2017 by the man's mother, former Boston TV anchor Heather Unruh. ...Unruh told investigators that she deleted items concerning her son's "frat boy activities" from the phone before giving it to authorities. She acknowledged Monday deleting things that "concerned" her but denied touching text messages or anything else relevant to the case.

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