Ex-NBA player Ben McLemore found guilty of rape after 11-day Oregon trial
Former NBA guards Ben McLemore was found guilty of rape by an Oregon jury on Thursday.
The jury in Clackamas County found the former 32 -year -old Portland Trail Blazers player McEMORE guilty of raping a woman in 2021 after an 11 -day hearing.
McLemore, who claims that he was not guilty of all numbers, was found guilty of first -degree rape, a accusation of first -degree illegal penetration and a number of second -degree sexual abuse.
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The jury also did not find him guilty of second -degree sexual abuse.
“We know that individuals with famous status or who have a position to go to the forefront can prevent prosecution. Clackamas County is not in Clackamas County,” said Clackamas District Lawyer John Wentworth. He said. According to Espn.
“This case shows that my office prosecute criminal actions, regardless of the status of community.”
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The incident occurred in October 2021, when McEMORE was defined by the authorities as a suspect after the woman’s complaint, in Lake Oregon Orego.
In February 2024, a Clackamas County Grand Jury listened to the evidence in the case, including the statement of the woman who said that McMemore attacked him. McLemore was arrested by Marshals two months later.
During the hearing, a Clackamas district prosecutor Scott Healy said the jury had passed through a living room couch at 2 in the morning after the woman had heavy drinking. The next morning, McLemore regained the partial consciousness that he had sexually penetrated him with his fingers and then continued to have sex with him.
McEMORE’s lawyer team, saying that sexual contact and consent to this, he objected to the allegations. Lawyers also claimed that the woman was sober enough to consent to sexual theme.
McEMore, a Kansas product, played for nine seasons in the NBA with the seventh -receiving Sacramento Kings in the 2013 NBA draft.
In the 2021-22 season, Memphis Grizzlies, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Lakers and finally Portland Trail Blazers jumped in the league.
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