Judge Leonard Hanser dealt a significant blow to the prosecution in the Robert Kraft prostitution case on Monday.
In a 10-page ruling issued to the public, Hanser officially suppressed the video evidence taken from secretly-installed cameras in the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida. The surveillance footage reportedly contained visual proof of Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, and 24 other men paying for and receiving illicit services from the massage parlor employees.
Hanser decided that the footage is inadmissible as evidence in the upcoming court trial though, because “the fact that some totally innocent women and men had their entire lawful time spent in a massage room fully recorded and viewed intermittently by a detective-monitor is unacceptable.