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Former NBA subordinate Ben McLemore has been recovered blameworthy of raping a 21-year-old pistillate during a water location enactment attended by galore of his then-teammates from the Portland Trail Blazers, a assemblage ruled Thursday.
The assemblage successful Clackamas County, located straight southbound of Portland, recovered McLemore, 32, blameworthy of rape, unlawful intersexual penetration and 1 number of intersexual abuse. He was recovered not blameworthy connected different number of intersexual abuse, Portland tv presumption KGW reported.
Sentencing was scheduled for Wednesday.
"We admit determination are those who fearfulness individuals with personage presumption oregon a presumption of prominence tin debar prosecution. Not successful Clackamas County. This lawsuit demonstrates my bureau prosecutes transgression acts careless of the offender's assemblage status," District Attorney John Wentworth said successful a statement.
Former Portland Trail Blazer Ben McLremore, who was convicted July 3, 2025, of raping a woman, is pictured successful a courtroom successful Oregon City, Oregon, connected June 17, 2025.
Beth Nakamura, Oregonian via AP
The charges stemmed from a enactment connected Oct. 3, 2021, astatine the Lake Oswego location owned by his Trail Blazers teammate Robert Covington.
Prosecutors claimed during the proceedings that the intersexual brushwood was rape, portion McLemore's lawyer countered it was consensual sex.
The pistillate said she was incapacitated aft a nighttime of dense drinking and was incapable to springiness consent. Prosecutors submitted photos of the pistillate hovering implicit a toilet and past passed retired connected a couch, The Oregonian/Oregon Live earlier reported.
She said she woke up astatine 1 constituent during the rape and froze successful terror.
"I don't cognize who this idiosyncratic is," she testified. "This is simply a random idiosyncratic that is doing thing similar this to me." The Associated Press mostly does not place victims of intersexual assault.
At 1 point, she said she fto her assemblage descent to the level successful an effort to halt the assault. The pistillate testified McLemore pulled her backmost onto the sofa and continued.
Covington earlier testified helium saw the pistillate flirting with McLemore portion they sat connected a couch.
McLemore testified helium was besides drinking but claimed the enactment was consensual. He besides said helium and the pistillate did not person a speech before, during oregon aft the act, aft which helium instantly near the home.
One of his attorneys, Kris Winemiller, said McLemore near aft receiving an aggravated connection from this then-wife, who tracked him and wanted to cognize wherefore helium wasn't successful their ain Lake Oswego home.
Clackamas County authoritative Scott Healy said determination was nary confusion. "When you look astatine each the surrounding circumstances and you measure the grounds successful this case, I taxable to you that the suspect is guilty," helium said during closing arguments Tuesday.
Another defence attorney, Lisa Maxfield, argued for McLemore's acquittal.
"The lone tenable verdict successful a lawsuit wherever 2 radical get drunk and person enactment and the antheral is drunker than the woman, the lone tenable verdict successful a lawsuit similar that is not guilty," she said.
The pistillate said she did not prosecute an lawyer to writer McLemore and didn't question wealth from him. Instead she pursued the transgression lawsuit due to the fact that "you can't bash that to somebody, fto unsocial idiosyncratic that you don't know."
McLemore, who played assemblage astatine Kansas, was the seventh wide prime successful the 2013 NBA draught by the Sacramento Kings. He besides played for Memphis, Houston and the Los Angeles Lakers earlier his past NBA play with Portland successful 2021-2022.
Since then, helium has played successful Europe and China. Last August helium signed with a squad successful Turkey.
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