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Report: Woman raped while passed out

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Posted: Wednesday May 26, 1999 07:08 PM

Jim Druckenmiller's trial for rape is set for July 19. AP

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- A woman accusing San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jim Druckenmiller of rape told a hospital technician that she passed out in a bed during a party and awoke to find him on top of her, a lawyer said Wednesday.

Defense attorney Deborah Caldwell-Bono read portions of the hospital report during a preliminary hearing.

Druckenmiller was visiting Virginia Tech, his alma mater, on March 3 when he and the woman, a senior, went with a group of people to two bars near the campus.

Caldwell-Bono, while going over evidence favorable to her client that was obtained from prosecutors, said one of the woman's sorority sisters told an investigator that the accuser was drinking with Druckenmiller and bought him a shot of liquor.

The group of six to eight people piled into a car after the bars closed and went to a house party, Caldwell-Bono said.

"According to her statement at the hospital, she does not remember anything after getting into the car," Caldwell-Bono told Judge Ray Grubbs. "She remembers waking up and he [Druckenmiller] was on top of her. She did not tell him to stop. She let him finish. She did not say help and when they finished she started to cry."

According to reports written by investigators, the woman didn't tell her roommate when she got home that she had been raped and didn't go to the hospital until late in the morning, Caldwell-Bono said.

Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Peggy Frank declined to comment on the evidence outlined by the defense attorney and revealed no evidence considered unfavorable to Druckenmiller, who is set for trial July 19.

Caldwell-Bono accused prosecutors of withholding evidence supporting Druckenmiller's contention that the woman pursued him and wanted to have sex with him. Frank said the defense attorneys have all the information they're entitled to get.

Grubbs said he was frustrated by the bickering between attorneys, adjourned and asked them to reschedule the hearing.

 

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