The former NBA guard Ben McLamore was considered guilty of rape in Oregon
Content notice: This article contains representations of alleged sexual aggressions.
A jury in Oregon discovered that the former NBA guard Ben Mclermore was judged to have raped a 21 -year -old woman on Thursday, during an accident during her period with the Portland Trail Blazer.
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The trial lasted 11 days in the County of Clackamas, as well as 10 hours of resolutions of the jury, for Espn. Mclermore was sentenced on charges of first degree rape, first degree illegal sexual penetration and second degree sexual abuse, although it was declared not guilty of a second count of second degree sexual abuse.
The 32 -year -old McLemore, who declared himself not guilty for all four reasons, has a conviction scheduled for next Wednesday.
The declaration of the local district prosecutor:
“We recognize that there are those who fear that people with celebrity status or a position of importance can avoid the accusation. Not in the County of Clackamas. This case shows that my office proceeds criminal acts regardless of the state of the crime community,” said the district prosecutor John Wentworth.
The accident in question occurred on October 3, 2021 at a party at the home of the then teammate of Blazers of Mclermore Robert Covington. Public ministries said that the victim was “drunk unconscious hammer”, to the point of vomiting and having difficulty walking. According to reports, he passed out on a living room sofa at 2 in the morning
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Presumably McCamore started sleeping on the same sofa and woke up to the victim at 6, penetrating his fingers and then having sex with her. According to reports, the victim was still “fading inside and outside” of consciousness, but sought a specialized medical examination for the victims of sexual aggressions later that day.
Ben McCamore was the seventh overall choice of the 2013 NBA Draft. (Photo of Soobum IM/Getty Images)
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In his defense, McLemore’s legal team said that the meeting was consensual and that he was also more drunk than the victim, through Kgw:
The defense lawyer Lisa Maxfield claimed that McCamore should be acquitted. “The only reasonable verdict in one case in which two people get drunk and have sex and the man is drunk with the woman, the only reasonable verdict in such a case is not guilty,” said Maxfield.
Mclermore was arrested for the first time in April 2024 and promised that the “truth will come to light” shortly after being released on bail.
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The seventh overall choice of the 2013 NBA Draft, Mclermore did not appear in the NBA from the 2021-22 season. He played in the NBA for nine years, with periods on the blazers, Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies and Sacramento Kings, the team that originally enrolled it.
Since 2022, Mclermore has played for teams in China, Greece, Spain and Türkiye. He spent last season with Yukatel Merkezefendi waiting for the trial.