In an important development in the trial of New York Knicks guard Derrick Rose for the civil equivalent of rape, attorneys for Rose’s accuser called Rose to the stand. According to the Associated Press, Rose denied that he committed rape and stressed that the sexual encounter was consensual. Rose further portrayed his accuser as aggressively soliciting him to have sex on the day of the incident. Rose claimed that she texted him with the message she “wakes up horny” from thinking about him and that she, rather than he, texted about having sex. He also reportedly testified that his accuser, while at Rose’s Beverly Hills house earlier in the evening, propositioned him to have sex, a proposition he says he rebuffed.
Derrick Rose and his accuser square off in court, as Rose moves for mistrial
