She said it was years later, when Corfman was an adult, that Corfman told her about Moore's action. Wells, the first witness, she said she had no doubt that it was Moore who approached her and her daughter at the courthouse in 1979. Moore's attorneys tried to put Corfman's character on trial, calling her vindictive and scheming, saying she was a troubled teenager and questioning a decision by her mother, Nancy Wells, to let her daughter read Harlequin romance novels as a young teen. "Bottom line is you have to decide who you believe," Eagan told jurors. Eagan said Corfman had nothing to gain by coming forward. "It's simply dirty politics," Moore told a crowd. Corfman's lawyers played a tape of Moore recorded at campaign events saying he did not know women who accused him and did not engage in sexual misconduct. After getting her telephone number, Moore brought her to his home on two occasions, kissing her and taking off her clothes, Eagan said. Eagan said Corfman met Moore in 1979 when she was 14 and sitting with her mother outside an Etowah County courtroom for a custody hearing and Moore, an assistant district attorney at the time, offered to sit with her. While Corfman is seeking only a ruling that Moore defamed her, McPhillips said Moore seeks monetary compensation. "She filed the suit so she can keep on backing in the limelight." It's unclear how long the trial might last. "The political motivation should be clear, why else would she do it?" McPhillips said. Politics Alabama's Roy Moore Sues Over Embarrassing Appearance On Sacha Cohen Series Republican Tommy Tuberville defeated Jones in the next election. The allegations overshadowed the conservative Republican during the 2017 campaign as Moore ultimately fell in a stunning red state defeat to Doug Jones, the first Alabama Democrat elected to the Senate in 25 years. Leigh Corfman, who claimed Moore touched her sexually when she was 14 and he was 32, sat across an Alabama courtroom from Moore as jurors in the civil trial began hearing opening statements from lawyers and the initial witnesses. Senate candidate Roy Moore and a woman who accused him of molesting her decades ago, derailing his 2017 campaign, went on trial Tuesday with the woman's lawyer telling jurors it was up to them to decide who to believe. Dueling defamation lawsuits filed by failed U.S. Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser/via AP Moore and Leigh Corfman, who accused him of sexual assault, are suing each other for defamation. Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, right, and his attorney Julian McPhillips, left, leave the courtroom in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday following jury selection.
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