Former Miss Hall’s staffer fights 3 rape charges Thursday
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× Watch Now: NewsChannel 13 Live at 4 Former Miss Hall’s staffer fights 3 rape charges Thursday Sarah Darmanjian WNYT 32 minutes ago Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Skip Backward Skip Forward Mute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:00 Loaded : 0% 0:00 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 1x Playback Rate Chapters Chapters Descriptions descriptions off , selected Captions captions settings , opens captions settings dialog captions off , selected Audio Track Picture-in-Picture Fullscreen This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Text Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Caption Area Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Drop shadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Advertisement Motion to dismiss charges against former Miss Hall’s staffer A motion to dismiss charges against former Miss Hall's staffer Matthew Rutledge in Pittsfield will be heard in Pittsfield on Thursday. PITTSFIELD, Mass. (WNYT)- A former Miss Hall’s School staffer is asking a court to dismiss felony rape charges ahead of a hearing this week. A hearing on whether the court will dismiss three felony counts of rape against Matthew Rutledge will be held Thursday afternoon. Rutledge is accused of raping two former students at Miss Hall’s School. He is arguing the claims are outside the statute of limitations. NewsChannel 13 reached out to the Berkshire County district attorney for comment on the upcoming hearing. The district attorney’s office said it is opposing the motion to dismiss.