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Spacey lawyer says accuser deleted ‘exculpatory’ messages

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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2019 file photo, a pedestrian walks past The Club Car Restaurant on Monday, J in Nantucket, Mass. Actor Kevin Spacey is accused of groping the teenage son of a former Boston TV anchor in the restaurant\'s crowded bar in 2016. On Thursday, May 30, Nantucket District Court Judge Thomas Barrett ruled that the restaurant must hand over any surveillance footage taken there on the night in question. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi, File)

NANTUCKET, Mass. – Kevin Spacey’s attorney is accusing the man who says the actor groped him at a Nantucket bar in 2016 of deleting “exculpatory” text messages.

Defence attorney Alan Jackson says in court documents filed Friday that Spacey’s accuser went “to great lengths to remove text messages that he believes did not fit his narrative.”

Jackson wants the court to order prosecutors to hand over a “complete and unaltered” forensic copy of the accuser’s cellphone.

Spacey’s lawyer is also seeking any communications about the case made by a top prosecutor in the Cape & Islands District Attorney’s Office who disclosed that his sister is friends with the accuser’s mother.

An email seeking comment was sent Friday to a spokeswoman the prosecutors’ office. An attorney for Spacey’s accuser declined to comment.

A hearing in the case is scheduled for Monday.

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