'Stuck in the web': opening statements given in sex abuse trial of Nathan Chasing Horse

Описание: (20 Jan 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

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Las Vegas - 20 January 2026
1. Nathan Chasing Horse enters courtroom
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bianca Pucci, Prosecutor:
“Life for a life. Your body is no longer yours. It's this or your mom dies. Those are the words of Nathan Chasing Horse.”
3. Courtroom
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bianca Pucci, Prosecutor:
“She submitted alone in a closet with only Nathan Chasing Horse. She was told there was no other option. Her mother would die unless she agreed, so she's submitted.
5. Close up of Nathan Chasing Horse
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bianca Pucci, Prosecutor:
“From 2003 through 2020, Nathan Chasing Horse spun a web of abuse. Caught many girls in that web. And after all of the evidence is presented, that web will be untangled and the evidence will establish the defendant Nathan Chasing Horse guilty of all 21 counts”
7. Nathan Chasing Horse in court
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Craig Mueller, Nathan Chasing Horse's attorney:
“Now a lot of these statements were carefully calculated to inflame your passions, to make you think Nathan Chasing Horse is a monster and he deserves to go to prison. But what you've heard is exactly one side of what is in fact a divorce case.”
9. Defendant Plaque
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Craig Mueller, Nathan Chasing Horse's attorney:
“He's a movie star. Now, the movie's a little older, and they're kind of a specialized thing, but in the world of the Sioux Indians, he's famous. Dances With Wolves, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. He's a handsome young man, and he's got a film career, and he is a hereditary medicine man of the tribe. He is a man who has standing.”
11. Lawyers speak with a judge
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Craig Mueller, Nathan Chasing Horse's attorney:
“This is a criminal case. It's based on evidence. And there's quite literally no evidence. You'll hear no DNA, you'll hear no eyewitnesses, you will hear no physical examinations, you'll hear nobody came in and found them naked together. You're gonna find no evidence at all. All you're gonna have is the brief word of a woman who clearly has motive."
13. various court scenes
STORYLINE:
Opening statements begin today in the trial for Nathan Chasing Horse, the “Dances with Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls.

Prosecutors allege he used his reputation as a medicine man to take advantage of his victims, who came to him for healing.

Chasing Horse's attorney says there is no evidence and called the case a “divorce case” rather than a criminal case.

Chasing Horse pleaded not guilty to 21 charges that spans two decades. Attorneys for the state of Nevada are making their case after a week of jury selection. 

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