Text messages have been at the forefront of Derrick Rose’s civil rape trial.
Specifically the accuser withholding them (almost led to mistrial) and the accuser’s statements not matching up with her text messages.
Because of the withheld texts, the accuser had to get back on the stand and try to explain. She didn’t do a very good job.
Doe insisted that she did not remember sending the text messages and again repeated, “I don’t text that way.” In response, defense lawyers referenced several other text messages she sent to Rose back in June, trying to show that she did text “that way,” using language that was similar to the kind that was used in the missing text messages.
One text message they brought up several times to make this point was sent from Doe to Rose on June 20, 2013. It read, “Dam baby u make you pussy wet.”
This line of questioning was continued by co-defense counsel Mike Monico, who first read the pussy text and then went to another text message, in which Doe told Rose she was going to take a shower with her vibrator (“I’m about to take a cold ass shower with my vibrator smdh.”) Doe said that one was a joke.
Monico later rattled off another string of questions about a text message in which Doe asked Rose for money to pay cab fare for a friend who came with her to Rose’s place one night. The friend testified that she didn’t expect any money from Doe for their cab.
Monico asked if that meant the request for money was a lie; Doe said no. Why, then, did she ask for the cash? Because the friend was upset, Doe said. What was the cash for, he asked. Doe said it was for the cab. But the cab was only about $20, Monico said, and Doe had asked for more than $200 from Rose.
During another string of questions, Baute tried to push back against Doe’s claim that she didn’t normally send lewd or vulgar texts. In one of the text messages referenced, Doe called a friend a bitch. Baute then went on to point out that Doe was able to use perfect punctuation and give out her address in texts she sent to Rose on the night of the alleged assault, this despite her claim that she was blacked out from drinking too much during that time.
If this was a criminal case, the reasonable doubt would be so strong an acquittal would almost be guaranteed.
Since it is a civil case, the burden of proof isn’t as high, but with witnesses like the accuser’s own roommate saying she made it up the rape accusation for money, she is fighting an uphill battle to get the $21 million she is seeking.
Lavergne, in her deposition, said she came forward because she thought what Doe was doing was “morally wrong.” She said, “I have texts of her trying to use the situation for her gain.” She added that Doe “didn’t seem battered” or “off” at work the day after the alleged rape.
“I felt like if she felt like she had been raped, she would have told me,” Lavergne said.
Even with the evidence and witnesses presented the only people who know what happened in that room is Rose, his friends and the accuser.
Someone is lying and it is sad, because someone will be stereotyped and branded for the rest of their lives because of those lies.
If you want to see the texts from the roommate about what the accuser was going to do with the settlement money flip the pages….