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1. He was accused of having sex with her.
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 10:40 PM
Jun 2016

By "having sex" I mean "engaged in vaginal intercourse."

Those charges were dropped.

He was found guilty of inserting a foreign object into her while she was (1) intoxicated and (2) unconscious. That "foreign object" would be his finger(s). He was also convicted of attempted rape. Those are the three counts. They're sexual assault, fit some people's definition of rape (but not many others', nor the California statutory definition, it would seem). I'm not sure most people would consider that having sex with her.

Oddly, I don't think he was accused of dragging her behind the dumpster. There's no evidence one way or the other apart from what he said as to how she got there, as far as I know, and all he said is that she was conscious and mobile at that point. At what point she became unconscious only he could say; the two other witnesses can't, and she can't.

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