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A Doctor Was Convicted of Raping Her at a Marriott. The Criminal Case Closed. The Civil Case Is Just Beginning. The headline you read — six years in prison for a hotel rape — is about the criminal case, and the criminal case alone. It tells you what the State of California proved at trial. It does not, and could not, tell you what the survivor is still owed. A criminal conviction punishes the state’s interest in law enforcement. A civil suit compensates her — the lost research, the years of therapy, the night she cannot walk past a hotel lobby without her chest tightening, the job offer she turned down because she could not leave the apartment. The two systems run in parallel. The criminal case is over. The civil case is the one where her name is on the verdict, and California law gives her years to bring it. This page is the full civil-justice map for a survivor of sexual assault by a guest at a San Mateo County hotel — what claims she can bring, against whom, what the evidence is, what it’s worth, and how a firm like ours builds the case that does what…