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Audiotape played in court

Druckenmiller says alleged victim was awake

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Posted: Thursday July 22, 1999 01:21 PM

Druckenmiller leaves the courthouse accompanied by his mother after the prosecution rested in his rape trial. AP

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) - Quarterback Jim Druckenmiller told police that he and a Virginia Tech student who accused him of rape had consensual sex and she told him, "I know what I'm doing," according to a tape played at his trial today.

Attorneys for Druckenmiller played an audiotape of a conversation the athlete had with a police sergeant the day after the alleged assault last March. Druckenmiller told the officer that the young woman was awake while they had sex and that they undressed each other beforehand.

Afterward, he asked her if everything was OK and she said, "I'm drunk. I know what I'm doing. Everything's fine," Druckenmiller said on the tape played for the jury in his rape trial.

He said she started crying when she realized her friends had gone home without her. She declined Druckenmiller's offer of a ride and called a friend instead, he said.

The officer asked Druckenmiller if he knew why she had started to cry and he said, "Maybe she was regretting what she had done," according to the tape.

Druckenmiller, a 26-year-old reserve quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, faces five years to life in prison if convicted.

Three men who know Druckenmiller testified Wednesday they heard his accuser say she wanted to have sex with the former Virginia Tech star. Druckenmiller visited his alma mater in March, and he, the woman and several friends were out drinking at two bars before ending up at a Blacksburg house where Druckenmiller was staying.

The 22-year-old accuser, a Tech graduate, testified that she was "just talking to him" and didn't recall kissing him or telling him she loved him and wanted to have sex.

"Do you remember saying yes when Jim asked you about your promise that you had made earlier, if you two could still have fun?" asked defense attorney Deborah Caldwell-Bono. The woman said she did not recall.

The woman testified that she passed out in a bed at the house and awoke to find Druckenmiller on top of her.

"What was he doing?" asked assistant prosecutor Peggy Frank.

"Having sex," the woman replied. "It took me a while to realize what was going on. I was disoriented. I had no idea where I was."

The woman said she got dressed afterward, felt scared and wanted to go home. She declined Druckenmiller's offer of a ride and called a male friend to pick her up, she said.

 

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