Overview
- Busfield’s lawyers filed a motion on Thursday, June 18, asking a New Mexico judge to quash the grand jury indictment returned in February.
- A Bernalillo County grand jury indicted Busfield on four counts of criminal sexual contact of a child related to alleged incidents with two child actors on The Cleaning Lady.
- The motion accuses the grand jury prosecutor of misstating the law and says prosecutors suppressed exculpatory material, including an independent Warner Bros. inquiry, witness affidavits, and a claimed polygraph result.
- Busfield has pleaded not guilty, surrendered to authorities on Jan. 13, was released with conditions that bar contact with the alleged victims and minors, and has a status hearing set for June 30 with trial scheduled for May 2027.
- If the judge finds so‑called structural prosecutorial errors, the indictment could be dismissed, but courts treat grand jury challenges as fact‑specific and dismissal is not guaranteed given the secrecy and high legal bar for overturning grand jury proceedings.