Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, January 22, 1994 TAG: 9401220236
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Charges of rape and sodomy were dropped Friday in Roanoke General District Court at the request of the victim, according to Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Greg Phillips.
"She re-evaluated her decision and decided not to prosecute," Phillips said.
Police have given the following account of the incident:
The 36-year-old woman told police she and two men - one of them her boyfriend - began playing strip poker the night of Dec. 23 at a Memorial Avenue Southwest home.
After leaving the game, the partially disrobed woman went to a bedroom where her boyfriend was sleeping and went to bed.
She was awakened a short time later when the man she had been playing poker with was sexually assaulting her, she told authorities.
The woman told police that her boyfriend was in bed with her but slept through the attack. When police arrived at 12:50 a.m., they found the man she accused.
He told police he had consumed half a pint of liquor while playing poker with the woman and her boyfriend and "gave a different version of the sexual act," according to a Police Department news release.
He had faced up to life in prison before the charges were dropped Friday.
by CNB