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Rape accuser loses $21.5 millon civil suit against Knicks guard Derrick Rose

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"ra-headers">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><strong>New York Knicks basketball player Derrick Rose arrives at U&period;S&period; District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday&comma; Oct&period; 6<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 id&equals;"ra-headline"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380a13&semi;">NBA star Derrick Rose&comma; 28 was found not liable in civil rape trial by a Los Angeles jury<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380a13&semi;">Jane Doe&&num;8217&semi;s rape allegations found not to be credible <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380a13&semi;">Rose was accused of gang rape by a 30-year-old woman&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;d been in an on and off physical relationship with her for two years before &&num;8216&semi;dumping&&num;8217&semi; her via text<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380a13&semi;">She reported the alleged rape two years after&comma; because she was &&num;8216&semi;too embarrassed at the time&&num;8217&semi;&comma; then filed a 21&period;5 million civil lawsuit against Rose a couple of weeks later <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380a13&semi;">All three accused men testified they had consensual sex with the accuser at Rose&&num;8217&semi;s LA home before accepting her invitation to have more sex with her on Aug&period; 27&comma; 2013<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module top h">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"ra-figure"><figcaption>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-85904" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;10&sol;derrick-rose2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"derrick-rose2" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"800" &sol;><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<aside id&equals;"ra-left">&NewLine;<section class&equals;"ra-meta">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-byline">Derrick Rose was with the Chicago Bulls when the case initial blew open<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-byline">The jury has rejected a woman&&num;8217&semi;s &dollar;21&period;5 million rape lawsuit against Knicks&&num;8217&semi; guard Derrick Rose&period; The case before the California jury centered around the woman&&num;8217&semi;s capacity to give consent for sexual activity with her partners&comma; because she claimed she was too drunk at the time&comma; passed out&comma; to give consent&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The woman identified as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jane Doe&comma;” who claimed to be an ex-girlfriend accused Derrick Rose of drugging and gang raping her along with two of his friends&period; The suit named his personal manager Randall Hampton and pal Ryan Allen&comma; as her other attackers&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;section>&NewLine;<&sol;aside>&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body">Rose&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer&comma; Lisa Cohen&comma; at he time dismissed the lawsuit as &&num;8220&semi;outrageous&period;&&num;8221&semi; and stated that it &&num;8220&semi;will be dismissed&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The jury deliberated for just under four hours Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court before finding the accuser hadn&&num;8217&semi;t proven her claim that Rose and two friends gang-raped her while she was drunk or drugged in her central California apartment&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Rose showed no emotion as the verdict was read&comma; and just shook his lawyer’s hand&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Outside of court&comma; he said he was thankful the jury &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;understood and agreed with me&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The accuser filed her multi-million dollar civil lawsuit last year&comma; claiming the men drank tequila with her and possibly drugged her at a Beverly Hills rental home on Aug&period; 26&comma; 2013&comma; and then let themselves into her apartment a few hours later to gang rape her while she was drifting in and out of consciousness&comma; unable to consent&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Rose and his co-defendants Randall Hampton and Ryan Allen&comma; frinds since their teenage days in Chicago&comma; denied the woman&&num;8217&semi;s claims&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Each testified during the two-week trial&comma; saying they all had consensual sex with the accuser at the luxury rental house&comma; later accepted an invitation to have more sex with her in the predawn hours of Aug&period; 27&comma; 2013&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In his closing argument Tuesday&comma; Rose&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer Mark Baute said the woman welcomed the men into her bed with &&num;8220&semi;open arms and open legs&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In her lawsuit Doe claimed the sexual assault took place in August 2013&comma; when Rose and his friends of slipped drugs into her drink at his Beverly Hills house&period; Although she managed to return home with the help of a friend&comma; Rose and his friends broke into her apartment later that night and gang raped her while she was incapacitated&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She’s only coming forward with the accusations now because she was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;ashamed and embarrassed” at the time of the alleged rape&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;With no physical evidence in the case&comma; the jury was left to make its decision based on often-lurid testimony and a series of text messages produced by the woman&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;As the trial strived to reach consensus between both sides on the cognitive state of Jane Doe at the time of the alleged rape&comma; Rose testified &&num;8211&semi; on three separate days altogether &&num;8211&semi; he was calm&comma; called himself a &&num;8220&semi;loner&&num;8221&semi; and said he believed he had consent from the woman based on her words&comma; actions and their nearly two year dating history&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He told the court&comma; the alleged victim sent him sexually suggestive text messages the morning of Aug&period; 26&comma; 2013&comma; engaged in sexual activity with him at the Beverly Hills house&comma; invited him back to her apartment in text messages and then soberly led him and his two friends into her apartment and explicitly told them to take turns&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;If someone tells you come in one at a time&comma; and you&&num;8217&semi;re a guy&comma; what is that&quest;&&num;8221&semi; Rose testified&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He testified that his accuser &&num;8220&semi;grabbed&&num;8221&semi; him when he entered her bedroom and initiated the sex that ended with him stowing his used condom in his pocket&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;If I&&num;8217&semi;m in a room with her and she says no&comma; no&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m never going to force myself &lpar;on her&rpar;&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he testified&period;<img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-85897" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;10&sol;derrick-rose1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"derrick Rose1&period;jpg" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"859" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module h">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"ra-figure"><figcaption>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption">Star guard Derrick Rose &num;25 of the New York Knicks<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Asked why he took his used condom with him&comma; he said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;In my profession&comma; they teach us right when we enter the NBA&comma; if you can&&num;8217&semi;t flush it&comma; take your condom with you&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He pointed to the texts from the morning before&comma; when Doe texted him out of the blue&comma; saying he was her &&num;8220&semi;inspiration&&num;8221&semi; and that he&&num;8217&semi;s the reason she wakes up &&num;8220&semi;horny&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;When she sent texts like that&comma; 99&percnt; of the time&comma; it ended with sex&period; So what do you expect&quest;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In the second week of the trial&comma;Gabriela Chavez&comma; a former friend of Doe&&num;8217&semi;s  told jurors the accuser is a scheming liar&period; Chavez testified that the woman identified as Jane Doe told her the sex she had with the trio was consensual — and she &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;was scheming” to get Rose’s money&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Chavez said Doe invited her to Las Vegas in September 2013 and confided that she had sex with Rose and his two friends&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;She told me she had sex with all three of them&comma; and she was upset that Derrick was OK with it&comma;” Chavez said in a sworn statement&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Doe was grilled on the stand over text messages she sent to Rose before arriving at his house&comma; especially one in which she claimed to be buying a sex belt at a &&num;8220&semi;girls on girls&&num;8221&semi; store&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She said she fabricated the story because she previously received the belt as swag at an event and wanted Rose to think it was new&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I didn&&num;8217&semi;t want him to think I was regifting&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she testified&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In closing Doe&&num;8217&semi;s attorney &comma; Waukeen McCoy&comma; called the sex belt a &&num;8220&semi;red herring&&num;8221&semi; used by the defense for &&num;8220&semi;slut shaming&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In more than eight hours of her own tearful testimony&comma; the woman said she blacked out at the Beverly Hills house and only remembered vomiting in her bathroom before passing out with her room &&num;8220&semi;spinning&period;&&num;8221&semi; She claimed she woke up to &&num;8220&semi;flashes&&num;8221&semi; of the defendants having sex with her without her consent&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t consider sex happening to a person that&&num;8217&semi;s blacked out&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t consider that sex&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&comma; crying&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Rose&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer said during his closing argument Tuesday that the woman was a liar looking for a &&num;8220&semi;wealth transfer&&num;8221&semi; from Rose&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;This woman packaged a fake rape case&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I submit to you all&comma; this is young 20-somethings doing what young 20-somethings are doing all over the country&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Baute said of the sexual activity that night and early morning&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;The only reason we&&num;8217&semi;re here is because Derrick Rose has money and she wants some of it&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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