Robert Kraft is ordered to appear in court next week on prostitution charges despite judge banning video evidence in case and sex spa worker invoking her right to remain silent
- Robert Kraft will appear in court next week for a previously scheduled court hearing in his prostitution case
- The Patriots owner managed to get crucial evidence in his case tossed out this week, including hidden video of his visits to Orchids of Asia
- One of the women who performed a sex act on Kraft has also invoked her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent
Robert Kraft is facing slight setback in his prostitution case just days after getting three big wins over Palm Brach County prosecutors.
Judge Leonard Hanser stated in court papers filed on Friday that despite recent developments in the case the trial would still proceed as planned, and that Kraft must be in attendance for the next court date.
Those court papers, which were obtained by DailyMail.com, also revel that this decision was made following a status conference on Friday and lasted just two minutes.
Kraft scored a number of key victories earlier in the week when Judge Hanser ruled that hidden camera footage that was shot in Orchids of Asia Day Spa could not be used during Kraft's trial.
As a result of that decision, the subsequent traffic stop of Kraft was also deemed unlawful by Judge Hanser because it relied on the video to identify the billionaire.
A few hours after that decision was made public, one the sex spa workers who was allegedly seen on camera with Kraft declared she would not testify about him by invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination
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Patriot act: Robert Kraft (above at the Super Bowl in February) will appear in court next week for a previously scheduled court hearing in his prostitution case
Multiple women who visited the Orchids of Asia Day Spa back in January were being watched by members of law enforcement while they took off their clothing and received legal massages.
This was revealed on Tuesday by Judge Leonard Hanser, the Palm Beach County magistrate who is overseeing the Robert Kraft case.
It did not stop there either according to Judge Hanser, who wrote that 'more than one woman had a significant portion of her spa time viewed... and the entirety of her spa time recorded and placed in Jupiter Police Department record.'
This was problematic for a number of reasons, he went on to state, with the most glaring being the fact that 'the search warrant did not allege that women were seeking illegal contact.'
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In the order announcing that evidence obtained from hidden cameras and a traffic stop of Kraft would not be permissible at trial, Judge Hanser also detailed the flaws in the warrant obtained by the Jupiter Police Department to conduct their sting operation.
'The fact that some totally innocent women and men had their entire lawful time spent in a massage room fully recorded and viewed intermittently by a detective-monitor is unacceptable and results from the lack of sufficient pre-monitoring written guidelines,' said Judge Hanser.
The number of women is not known at this time.
A lawsuit was previously filed by a male client however who claimed he was at the spa while the sting was being conducted by Jupiter police.
A complaint filed in federal court y by attorneys Edward Mullins of Reed Smith and Joe Tacopania of The Law Offices of Tacopina & Seigel on behalf of a John Doe, accuses authorities of violating Doe's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure, Fourteenth Amendment right to procedural due process, and constitutional right to privacy.
Doe states that he was visiting the spa on January 19 for a massage that did not include any manual or oral sex act from a spa employee.
The filing, which was submitted in the United states District Court for the Southern District of Florida, goes on to state that Doe had a reasonable expectation of privacy as he undressed inside the spa and then received a massage while in the nude.
He is now seeking monetary, punitive and exemplary damages while demanding that no copy of any of the tapes showing men inside the spa be released to the press or public.
Doe also wants those tapes, and any copies, destroyed for good.
