Prosecutors have dropped three felony fees towards Patrick Mahomes’ brother, Jackson Mahomes.
Johnson County Assistant District Lawyer Megan Ahsens filed a movement on Tuesday, January 2, to dismiss Jackson’s three counts of aggravated sexual battery. The 23-year-old appeared in court docket on Wednesday, January 3, and the felony fees have been formally dismissed.
The Related Press studies that the court docket cited a scarcity of cooperation from alleged sufferer Aspen Vaughn, who has refused to testify, as the rationale for the dismissal. Prosecutors famous in a submitting that they supposed to maneuver ahead with the case, claiming that surveillance video filmed the encounter. In keeping with Ahsens, the accuser “is actively thwarting makes an attempt to serve her” with subpoenas in an try and keep away from showing in court docket.
Jackson’s lawyer, Brandan Davies, insisted in an announcement to FOX 4 KC that his shopper “has completed nothing fallacious,” including, “We had full confidence that the reality of the matter would finally be revealed.”
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Jackson nonetheless faces a misdemeanor battery cost, for which he pleaded not responsible.
Information broke in March 2023 that Jackson was beneath investigation for assault after Vaughn, the proprietor of Aspens Restaurant and Lounge in Overland Park, Kansas, claimed he “forcibly kissed” her at her institution in February 2023. Jackson allegedly turned aggressive with two workers members, shoving a waiter who tried to return right into a room the place Jackson was with Vaughn.
“I used to be going into our workplace downstairs the place the workers are within the worker space, and he’s downstairs for I don’t know what purpose,” the waiter claimed to the Kansas Metropolis Star in March 2023. “And I’m making an attempt to get to the workplace, and he’s like, pushing me out … And he’s like, ‘No, get out, get out.’”
Vaughn claimed that Jackson made three completely different advances on her with out her consent.
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“He forcibly kissed me out of nowhere, and I’m telling him, pushing him off saying, ‘What are you doing?’” she informed the outlet. “After which he proceeded to do it two extra occasions, the place the final time I used to be pushing him off, and I can see on the cameras that any person was exterior the workplace door, and I used to be yelling for them to return assist, as a result of he’s huge and big.”
Vaughn alleged Jackson grabbed her by the neck after he tried to talk together with her privately in regards to the incident. Jackson’s lawyer denied the accusations in a March 2023 assertion, alleging there was “substantial proof refuting the claims of Jackson’s accuser, together with the statements of a number of witnesses.”
Jackson was formally arrested on 4 fees associated to the alleged altercation in Might 2023 along with his bail set at $100,000. Months later, Vaughn closed her restaurant, telling the Kansas Metropolis Star that she confronted demise threats and harassment and the institution was vandalized within the aftermath of the authorized drama.
Patrick, 28, addressed his brother’s arrest throughout a Might 2023 press convention, telling reporters, “It’s sort of a private factor that I’m going to maintain to myself.”
