Sex abuse suspect, co-owner of Bluffs bar seen on 'Bar Rescue' will rely on the defense of intoxicat

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/sex-abuse-suspect-co-owner-of-bluffs-bar-seen-on/article_507f3958-f355-11e5-9a6e-5b6de74abe7a.html

POSTED: SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 2016 8:19 AM | UPDATED: 8:21 AM, SAT MAR 26, 2016.
By Derek Sullivan / World-Herald News Service

An owner of O Face Bar, made notorious on Spike TV’s “Bar Rescue” in 2014 and accused last month of sexually abusing a woman, will get his day in court.

The trial for Matthew Overmyer has been set for May 10.

Overmyer was arrested on Feb. 4, and has been charged with second-degree sexual abuse, a class B felony; and assault with intent to commit sexual abuse, a class D felony. On March 18, Overmyer’s lawyer, Michael Hooper, filed court documents saying that his defendant was going to rely on the defense of intoxication.

Messages left Friday for Hooper were not returned. Assistant Pottawattamie County Attorney Dan McGinn, who is prosecuting the case, said an intoxication defense traditionally means that the defendant was at a diminished capacity at the time of the alleged event and could not form specific intent.

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Matthew Overmyer

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. I watch bar rescue. Missed that episode

[Islandurp]

2. I think that's the one that Taffer didn't even bother helping.

[maveric]

4. That was the only episode where John walked out and refused to help.

The guy is an abusive asshole who would hit his own employees and get shitfaced drunk at work.

[whatthehey]

3. The question is either intoxication diminishes responsibility or it doesn't

FWIW I'm of the latter opinion, legally speaking.

But rationally, ethically, medically you have to pick one. If drunkenness absolves people of the ability to understand and give consent, it absolves them of the ability to understand and form intent.