Nearly five years after a Newport Beach, California, doctor and his girlfriend were accused of drugging and raping multiple women in a criminal case that quickly became enmeshed in political battles, courtroom testimony over the past week has for the first time painted a clearer picture of the charges Dr. Grant Robicheaux and Cerissa Riley now face.
Having significantly pared back the high-profile criminal case to focus on two alleged victims rather than the seven women Robicheaux and Riley were initially accused of sexually assaulting, prosecutors from the California Attorney General’s Office spent five days of testimony in a Fullerton courtroom over the past week outlining the evidence they hope will persuade an Orange County Superior Court judge to allow the case to proceed to a jury trial.
According to investigators, the two women both described meeting Robicheaux and Riley at Newport Beach restaurants, having drinks bought for them by Robicheaux and waking up later at the Robicheaux’s Balboa Peninsula home. The women said they felt as if they had been drugged, and they believed that Robicheaux and Riley were attempting to sexually assault them.
