The civil rape trial of NBA star Derrick Rose opened Wednesday with jurors hearing two starkly different versions of events during an encounter in which the New York Knicks player and two friends are accused of sexually assaulting a woman. “”She was coherent, organized and the orchestrator,” said Mark Baute, Rose’s attorney. They were the first volleys in a trial that will pit the credibility of Rose against his accuser, a former girlfriend. The incident left her fearful and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, McCoy told jurors. During more than a year of legal wrangling in court filings and hearings, Fitzgerald had granted the woman’s request to keep her identity concealed from the public, despite protests from Rose’s attorney.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 06, 2016 04:30 UTC