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Seattle mayor can ‘expect to be questioned’ about facts in alleged rape case

Apr 12, 2017, 1:31 PM | Updated: 1:34 pm

The lawyer for a man who alleges Seattle Mayor Ed Murray raped him as a child has requested a deposition in May.

Attorney: Heart of complaint against Seattle mayor is false

On Wednesday, a formal court notice, initially reported on by The Seattle Times, requests that Murray be deposed at the law offices of the lawyers representing D.H., the person suing Murray for damages.

According to the document, Murray “can expect to be questioned” about “various potential causes of the medical matters referenced publicly by his attorneys in a news conference on April 11, 2017.”

On Tuesday (April 11) Murray’s private attorney Bob Sulkin said the description of Murray’s physical appearance by D.H. was false. D.H. made specific remarks regarding the mayor’s body, including a mole on his genitalia. According to Sulkin, an examination “found no abnormalities in that area.”

Sulkin asked that the plaintiff’s lawyers drop the case.

But lawyers representing D.H. say that the examination doesn’t prove Murray innocent.

An excerpt from the court notice:

Those medical causes could include multiple medical complications stemming from having promiscuous sex with multiple child prostitutes. Bumps, warts, and/or moles do not always remain 30-years, depending upon the root cause.

Murray, according to the court document, will also be asked about “the prior use of campaign funds to extinguish the voices of other victims, and all other topics related to this lawsuit.”

D.H. alleges the mayor molested and raped him as a teenager in the 1980s.

D.H. was allegedly a troubled youth who was homeless, using drugs, and whose parents were also addicted to drugs. According to The Seattle Times, the man — then a teen — was addicted to crack-cocaine. Court documents state that the teen met Murray on the bus and the two “developed a friendly interaction.” Murray was 32 years old at the time.

In the lawsuit, D.H. describes the inside of Murray’s former Capitol apartment, gives his old phone number, and describes the mayor’s genitalia. The Seattle Times reports two other men have accused Murray of sexual abuse in the past decade.

Sulkin argued that knowing someone’s old phone number or what the inside of an apartment from 30 years ago looked like is not enough to accuse someone of illicit sex. He said the fingerprint in the case was the description of the mayor’s genitalia “and it’s false.”

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