Etowah County Circuit Judge Gregory Williams on Wednesday dismissed former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore’s defamation suit against a woman who accused him of sexual assault.

The lawsuit is the last in a series of suits launched by the former hopeful for U.S. Senate who saw his campaign derailed by a number of accusations of past sexual misconduct.

Moore had hoped to charge this accuser, Beverly Nelson, with defamation for a written statement she made in 2017 a month before the special election.

In that statement, Nelson accused Moore of groping her and attempting to sexually assault her when she was a 16-year-old waitress and Moore was in her 30s.

Williams wrote Wednesday that Moore failed to adequately challenge the veracity of Nelson’s claims and therefore fell short on pro

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