Plea expected in false lawsuit against molestation victim

Published December 2, 2010 5:00am ET



A Southeast D.C. man is expected to admit that he filed a defamation lawsuit falsely accusing a young man he molested of faking the molestation allegations. David Copeland-Jackson briefly won a $3 million defamation judgment against his victim in 2007, based on a civil suit in which he claimed the victim admitted to making up the molestation charges.

The judgment was vacated when his plot was uncovered, and Copeland-Jackson was indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit perjury and obstruction of justice last year.

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