IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – Jurors have resumed deliberating in the case of a former University of Iowa football player who is charged with sexually abusing a female athlete while she was passed out in 2007.
Former Hawkeye Cedric Everson has pleaded not guilty to third-degree sexual abuse, which could send him to prison for up to 10 years if he is convicted.
Prosecutors say Everson snuck in a dorm room where his teammate Abe Satterfield was in bed with the woman and assaulted her while she was asleep. Prosecutors say Satterfield had assaulted the woman first, but Satterfield testified the sex was consensual.
Everson’s defense lawyer argued the woman was in a “functional blackout” and doesn’t remember having consensual sex with his client.
Jurors continued discussing the case Wednesday after beginning deliberations Tuesday.
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