*New York Knicks point guard, Derrick Rose, finds himself in a bit of a pickle, so to speak, because attorneys for a Jane Doe plaintiff alleging in a civil lawsuit that the athlete and two of his friends raped her, are making note that in a deposition Rose said he did not understand the meaning of consent.
Attorneys Waukeen McCoy and Brandon Anand made that claim during a teleconference with media in which the Jane Doe person also talked about the alleged rape and her desire for anonymity during the trial, which is set to begin Oct. 4 and last approximately eight days, reports USA Today.
“When asked at his deposition, Mr. Rose did indeed not have any answer as to what consent means, and we believe that the record very clearly shows that he and his friends are sexual deviants who essentially decided they would have sex with the plaintiff no matter what,” Anand said. “His friends may have pushed this issue, but all three certainly knew that she was severely intoxicated, she could not consent and she would have never consented.”
Near the end of the teleconference, McCoy read aloud a portion of that deposition.
Question: “Do you have an understanding as to the word consent?”
Rose: “No but can you tell me?”
Question: “I just wanted to know if you had any understanding.”
Rose: “No.”
Here’s the yuk part of the story. McCoy said Rose took his condom, put it back in the wrapper and took it with him “as if he was never there.”
“One of the malicious acts of the three of them is that they laughed about the fact Mr. Rose had his condom in the wrapper when leaving the apartment,” McCoy said. “Even the next day they laughed about it, and he testified to that in the deposition.”
The plaintiff, who is asking for $21.5 million, alleges Rose, Randall Hampton and Ryan Allen raped her on Aug. 27, 2013, in Beverly Hills. The defendants say the sex was consensual. Rose’s attorneys have accused McCoy of pandering to the news media.
has been a nasty back-and-forth between the two sides. The plaintiff’s attorneys have accused the defense of painting their client as a sexual aggressor, and the defense has accused the plaintiff of trying to “tarnish Mr. Rose’s public image in an effort to extract a large extortionate payment from him.”
“Mr. Rose is confident that the evidence of plaintiff’s consent will be clear once all the facts are heard. The plaintiff consented to sex each and every time they had sex during their twenty month relationship, including on the night that is the focus of this lawsuit,” Rose’s lawyers said in a written statement. “The salacious allegations of a woman who is now on a media tour — who also claims to not remember much from that night — do not change what transpired that evening, which was consensual intercourse between Mr. Rose and the plaintiff. The plaintiff’s ever-changing cast of lawyers is such that their latest strategy is to pander to the media with headline grabbing theories that bear no relationship to the actual evidence, because they mistakenly believe that such pandering will embarrass or intimidate Mr. Rose into a large and unwarranted settlement payment. The trial starts soon, and Mr. Rose looks forward to clearing his good name and moving past this unfortunate saga.”
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