Second Judge Recuses Herself From Steven Tyler ’70s Sexual Assault Case

In 2022, a woman named Julia Misley (formerly Julia Holcomb) sued Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, accusing him of sexually assaulting her in the '70s, when she was a minor. Misley filed her lawsuit in the final days of the Child Victims Act, a 2019 law that temporarily voided the statute of limitations for victims of child sexual abuse. She met Tyler when she was 16 and he was 25, and he became her legal guardian during their three-year relationship, which Tyler wrote about in his own 2011 memoir. The trial was set to start later this month, but now two different judges have recused themselves from the case.Rolling Stone reports that Los Angeles County judge Patricia A. Young recused herself from Misley's lawsuit on Tuesday, saying that she disclosed a potential conflict of interest to both sides on the previous day. Misley's lawyer says that the two sides couldn't agree to waive that potential conflict, so Young had to recuse herself. According to Rolling Stone, Young had been consulting with another judge about the case but then learned that the other judge had "previously been removed from the case for undisclosed reasons." The trial, previously set to begin Sep. 28, has been rem...