Nevada court should get Ronaldo police file issue, says US Judge

A bid by the New York Times to obtain information that Las Vegas police compiled about Cristiano Ronaldo after a Nevada woman claimed in 2018 that the international football star raped her in 2009 appears to be on its way from federal to state court. He noted that Las Vegas police were not a party to the Mayorga-Ronaldo hush-money deal, and said that denying the New York Times access to what Las Vegas police collected “would almost certainly raise the ‘specter of government censorship.’” Albregts added that after a flurry of court filings in recent months, attorneys for Ronaldo and Mayorga "came to agree” that state court, not federal court, is the proper venue to decide whether Nevada law obligates Las Vegas police to release the file. READ: United boss Rangnick backs Ronaldo to shine against Atletico Albregts’ scathing recommendation also blamed Stovall for bad faith and inappropriate conduct for using the Football Leaks documents to prosecute Mayorga’s case, and for relying on what the judge termed leaked and stolen documents detailing attorney-client discussions between Ronaldo and his lawyers. Mayorga went to Las Vegas police at the time, but police closed the investigation because Mayorga neither identified her alleged attacker by name nor said where the incident took place, authorities said.