Ben Mlemore sentenced to more than 8 years in prison

The judge condemned the former guard of the NBA Ben McLemore to More than eight years in Wednesday in the front prison in Oregon after the jury found him guilty of rape and sexual assault at a 21-year-old woman At home entertainment 2021. years.

The Circamas County Harger last week sentenced 32-year-old at one account of each of the rape of the first degree, the first-literal illegal sexual penetration and second-degree sexual abuse. He is released in the second number of second-degree sexual abuse. McLemore, who last played in the NBA 2022. year, he pleaded not guilty of all charges.

The Attack happened 3. October 2021. Years on the House of Lake Suprega Since the then trail of Blazers, Prime Robert Covington, former McLemore teammate. After the police investigation, Mimmers was identified as a suspect. The Grand Jury of Circaqamasa accused him in February 2024. years after the victim’s testimony. US marshals arrested him for two months later.

During the relocation, McLemore appeared in the clothes issued by Zail Clackamas and was rejected to address the court. The woman, now 24, submitted a statement about the influence of the victim to the video.

“This was the longest for almost four years in my life,” she said, as Cited ESPN. “I’ve never imagined it to check in from 2021. year led to such an incredibly heavy and long journey.”

She described the current emotional trauma and added, “Now I understand, at a deep level, why so many victims are hesitantly or never reporting what happened to them.”

Ben Mclemore sentenced almost four years after the attack report

At the trial, Prosecutor County Clackamas Scott Healy told jurors that the woman passed on the couch after the big drink and later regained partial consciousness as Mllemore who sexually attacked her. Heali said McLemore initially pierced his fingers before she had relationships.

Defensive lawyers disputed the Prosecution’s case, claiming that a woman initiated sexual contact and had the ability to agree despite being intoxicated. In the ECPN statement, the Vinemiller’s lawyer said that the legislation of Oregon would consider certain provisions on cases like his, stating Mlemore “You think it is a life and directional life in the community.”

In a special statement that provides ESPN, Heali said the outcome should encourage others to find themselves.

“We hope that the strength and courage of the victim in this case will give others that they will be strong to progress in the circumstances where a sexual assault occurred,” Heali said.

McLemore was selected seventh as a whole in the NBA sketch from Kansas. He played for five teams at nine seasons, including kings, grizzlys, rockets, lakers and trages blessed. After its final season of the NBA, he continued a basketball career abroad, with stops in China, Greece and Spain.

The penalty judgment closes almost four-year legal proceedings and marks a dramatic reversal for a former choice of lottery.