indicted Busfield<\/a> in February and charged him with four counts of criminal sexual contact of a child. The since-dismissed charges stemmed from his alleged behavior with two actors, who are brothers, on the set of the Fox crime drama \u201cThe Cleaning Lady.\u201d The actor, known for \u201cThe West Wing\u201d and \u201cThirtysomething,\u201d has pleaded not guilty to those charges. <\/p>\n\u201cTim said from the beginning that he was innocent,\u201d attorney Larry Stein said in a statement to The Times. \u201cThat he would fight to prove his innocence. And he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Bernalillo County district attorney\u2019s office told The Times on Friday prosecutors are \u201cevaluating our options to determine how we will proceed.\u201d <\/p>\n
A New Mexico judge issued a warrant for Busfield\u2019s arrest in January, citing two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor and a single count of child abuse. Busfield was accused of inappropriately touching the child actors during his time as an actor, director and producer on \u201cThe Cleaning Lady,\u201d according to an affidavit filed by New Mexico officials. <\/p>\n
One child actor alleged Busfield first touched his \u201cprivate areas\u201d multiple times on set when he was 7 years old, according to the complaint. He said that Busfield touched him inappropriately again several times when he was 8. The affidavit also detailed a police interview with Busfield in which he suggested that the boys\u2019 mother might have sought \u201crevenge\u201d on the director for \u201cnot bringing her kids back for the final season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Busfield filed his motion to quash the indictment in June, alleging the court refused to provide members of the grand jury with additional information and that prosecutors refused to allow jury members to hear from other witnesses, among other claims, according to court documents. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe State treated the grand jury not as an independent body, but as the arm of the prosecution our courts have forbidden,\u201d the motion says. \u201cThe resulting indictment must be dismissed.\u201d Prosecutors rebutted Busfield\u2019s allegations in a response to the dismissal and asked the court to deny his motion. <\/p>\n
Before Friday\u2019s order, a jury trial was scheduled to begin May 10, 2027. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Mexico judge on Friday ruled in favor of Emmy winner Timothy Busfield, tossing out multiple child…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-499745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}