Dan Nelson
You know you’re in for a treat when, while reading excerpts from a guy’s testimony, you already think he’s a prick. But then, this guy’s prick is sort of the point of this case, so maybe I am getting ahead of myself.
We have an attorney on trial, Dan Nelson, an IP litigator, who is accused of attempted rape and sexual abuse after a date last August.
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The accuser in the case has testified that after meeting Nelson at a bar for drinks she agreed to accompany the attorney back to his home, but instead he took her to his midtown office. Apparently Nelson intended it to be more than just an opportunity marvel at his impressive legal briefs as he has a Murphy bed — which he also testified has seen action with other women — set up in his office. Flip-and-f*cks, not just for college dorm rooms anymore.
That’s when the story takes two different paths. According to the opening statement of ADA Maxine Rosenthal, as reported by the New York Post:
“He pulls her down on the bed, pushes her backward and pins her down with his body weight and suddenly his fingers are inside her.”
The woman told him, “No! Stop!” the prosecutor said.
“He tried to force her to have sex with him while she repeatedly said no,” Rosenthal said.
Nelson allegedly snarled, “You want me to stop? I’m going to f- -k you so hard!”
He choked her until she became light-headed, Rosenthal said.
The victim then escaped, and wound up in just her sandals in the street flagging down a truck driver for help.
According to Nelson’s testimony, he couldn’t rape his accuser because he’d forgotten his Viagra. According to reports, he claims his erectile disfunction was the reason the alleged victim wound up naked on the street looking for help:
The intellectual-property lawyer — who makes $50,000 a month and drives a $150,000 Aston Martin convertible — said the mockery [of his erectile disfunction] made him mad and he told her to get out.
He admitted he angrily grabbed her arm and hair and pushed her toward the door.
“At first, she wouldn’t budge. Then she lunged away from me and twisted around, at which time her dress tore and came off in my hand and her wig came off, ” Nelson told jurors.
So this lawyer is hoping Viagra gets him off… of attempted rape charges. Cf. Juan Monteverde.
But the state of Nelson’s dick isn’t the only unsavory information contained in his testimony:
“Do you have anger issues relating to women?” the prosecutor asked.
“I do,” he said.
He testified that he met his accuser at Bull McCabe’s bar in the East Village, where he arrived after drunkenly text-messaging about 10 other women.
It is an interesting strategic move to admit to being drunk, prone to be quick to anger with women, and so desperate for poon to text 10 women that night before turning on a dime to say you screwed up your Viagra. Maybe it’s time for Cialis.
Lawyer’s limp defense: I didn’t try to rape date, I can’t even get it up [New York Post]
Lawyer sexually assaulted woman on office’s fold-out bed: prosecutors [New York Post]