Rather than flagging the video, as state evidence law requires, prosecutors "sat on this video for almost four months and then buried it in over two terabytes of discovery" turned over only last month, defense lawyer Priya Chaudhry said in her request that the case be thrown out.
Jabbari, 30, is a London-based movement coach who met Majors, 33, on the set of this year's "
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania."
She can be heard in the March 25 video telling the three strangers that she is Majors' girlfriend – "No way!" one of the men responds – and that she'd left her phone and purse in their car after they fought and the actor "ran off."
"Ms. Jabbari was not only completely unharmed but was describing what had just happened by repeatedly insisting that Mr. Majors had texts from another woman on his phone, and making no reference to suffering physical violence of any sort," Chaudhry said in her court papers.
Majors makes a brief appearance at the end of the clip, as the trio offers Jabbari cab money and the use of their cell phones.
It's a non-speaking cameo. Majors, who is himself looking for the driver, says nothing as he walks past the group on the sidewalk, ignoring Jabbari as she asks, "Where's my bag? It was in the car!"
The clip ends with Jabbari and the three strangers following Majors out of the shot.
Before parting ways for the night, Jabbari and Majors would fight for another five minutes, though always in the presence of security cameras and eyewitnesses, including the three strangers and the driver, the defense says.
At no point in those final five minutes did Majors strike Jabbari, Chaudhry says the prosecution evidence shows.
Instead, "video shows Ms. Jabbari wildly grabbing and clawing at him, ripping off his coat buttons and tearing his coat pocket in the process," leaving the actor with scratches on his arm and face, the lawyer says in her papers.
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