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So Did An LA Jury Say That 35-Year-Old Women DO Go Down in Cars?
The curious case of the handsome UCLA doctor and his Supervisor-with-(alleged)-benefits has come to an end.
Yesterday an LA jury denied Dr. David Martorano's claim that UCLA had passed him over for a coveted position as "chief resident" at the Neuropsychiatric Institute because he broke up with his former supervisor, Dr. Heather Krell.
The jury also denied Dr. Krell's counter-suit that Dr. Dave made the whole affair up, including the ludicrous claim that Krell would give him oral sex in a car.
[Krell's lawyer, Donald Garrard] also argued that jurors should not believe Martorano's claim that Krell had performed oral sex on him parked in an Audi in front of her apartment, because a 35-year-old physician would obviously choose to go to her apartment rather than stay in the car. Garrard urged jurors to punish Martorano for acting like "a 14-year-old boy" by awarding Krell punitive damages.
Martorano's attorney, however, argued that the evidence that Martorano and Krell had an affair was hard to dispute. He pointed to dozens of phone calls, social events they attended together and testimony that they watched a movie about a porn star titled "The Fluffer." - LA Times
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