LOS ANGELES — Race played a major role at the close of the Derrick Rose sex attack trial Tuesday — as the NBA star’s lawyer said the woman accusing him of gang rape used ugly stereotypes about young black men acting like “sexual deviants” to try and prove her $21.5 million civil case.
“Those adjectives tap into stereotypes and things we find difficult to talk about but they bear no relation to the evidence,” Mark Baute, the New York Knicks player’s attorney, told the six-woman, two-man jury during his closing statement Tuesday.