Sparks are bound to fly at Dominic Jones’ trial
Sex, vodka, the Gophers football and criminal defender Earl Gray.
Sexual violence against the trial of former University of Minnesota-football star Dominic Jones, starting today in Hennepin County District Court, promises to a rocky passage.
Gray and his clients contend that the alleged victim support of the sexual act with which he is charged. Assistant Hennepin County lawyers and Marlene Sénéchal Martha Holton Dimick said that, after eight shots of vodka, the woman was drunk, much less agreement.
Gray’s remarkable talents against the courtroom, the two experienced prosecutors in a process expected to last up to two weeks. Jury selection begins today will continue Tuesday.
Last week, Judge Marilyn Rosenbaum, cautioned against lawyers to speak publicly about the event until it is resolved, but others expect drama.
“It is a study of television,” Hamline University law professor said Joe Daly.
Jones was the only person who, in an incident with other players and four rockten University Cup program. All players were in the start-up team of the 2007 season, so the Gophers with the worst defense of the school football and a final record of 1-11.
The case recalls the 1986 Madison, Wis., sexual coercion against three basketball players Gophers. Coach Jim Dutcher resigned, but the men were eventually acquitted.
The loss of Jones was similar traumatic for the national football team. It was the best defensive player, perhaps even the best player on the team. He was regarded as a leading provider of the coach and his teammates, as well as its elegant, playing aggressive.
There was a shock, as Jones was signed in July with third-degree criminal sexual behaviour. It remains to the university. During recent meetings court, he wears costumes clean and quiet sitting appear Chat Soft-spoken, although in the lobby with the ungestüm Gray.
Jones, the wife to testify
Little is known about the alleged victim. The Star Tribune not to identify victims of sexual assaults. The woman is expected that the witnesses, as Jones. Another important element is the witness Jones’ former teammate Robert McField who is in prison in Missouri for cases of armed attacks.
The case began at 6 am on April 6, 2007, as a policewoman marked with a university near a Burger King, a report that he had been sexually abused at least two days earlier.
According to the complaint against Jones, 18, the woman and a female friend went to McField room at the University Village. McField attacked the woman to clean water from competition with shots of vodka Karkov filled to the edge. Football player Alex Daniels, E.J. Jones and Keith Massey not to drink, but the woman has had at least eight projectiles, the complaint said.
In a filing Gray, McField said the wife discovered her breasts to men. Some time later, Daniels, E.J. Jones and Massey “has transformed having sex with her in a bedroom, the complaint said.