A prominent Salt Lake City lawyer who has been on both sides of the aisle as a sex crimes prosecutor and a criminal defense attorney said that the civil lawsuit filed Wednesday against Jake Retzlaff — alleging that the BYU quarterback committed assault and battery on a Salt Lake County woman 18 months ago — is “problematic and damaging,

BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff was accused battery, assault, and intentional infliction of emotional distress in a recent civil lawsuit filed by an unidentified female in Salt Lake County, Utah, according to the The Salt Lake Tribune.

Jake Retzlaff lawsuit details . According to the suit, the woman and a friend went to Retzlaff's apartment in November 2023 after connecting through social media a month prior. Af