Osan jury weighing verdict in rape case

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Osan jury weighing verdict in rape case
By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, May 10, 2008

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — A jury here was weighing a verdict Thursday night in the case of an airman accused of raping a fellow airman in an Osan dorm last fall.

Airman 1st Class Kyle Mitchum of the 51st Operations Group is charged with rape. His court-martial was heard by a seven-member jury of Air Force officers and senior noncommissioned officers and military judge Lt. Col. Gregory Friedland.

The woman accused Mitchum of forcing her onto a bed in his dorm room the night of Oct. 22 and raping her. Mitchum has contended the sex was consensual.

In closing arguments Thursday afternoon, prosecutor Capt. Ryan Hendricks asked jurors to believe the woman’s account of events.

“Make no mistake,” he said, “this is what rape looks like.”


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