After convening for three hours, a federal jury of six women and two men on Wednesday found New York Knicks guard Derrick Rose not liable for sexual battery and related civil offenses. The 28-year-old Chicago native will thus not be ordered to pay Rose’s accuser—whom Sports Illustrated and other media outlets refer to as “Jane Doe” in light of her status as an alleged victim of sexual violence—any money in damages. Doe sought $21.5 million in the case.
In a civil case such as Doe v. Rose, the burden of persuasion is the “preponderance of evidence” or, more colloquially, “more probable than not.