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Rape trial begins for former San Francisco 49ers star Dana Stubblefield

SAN JOSE — The rape trial for former San Francisco 49ers star Dana Stubblefield began Monday, nearly four years after he was charged with sexually assaulting a developmentally disabled woman he invited to his Morgan Hill home to interview her as a prospective babysitter.

Former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield sits at a press conference with his attorneys in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, May 3, 2016. Stubblefield is on trial on charges of raping a disabled woman in his Morgan Hill home in April 2015. The woman had answered an ad for a babysitter position. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group file photo)

In their opening arguments, Deputy District Attorney Tim McInerny and defense attorneys Ken Rosenfeld and Allen Sawyer laid out starkly divergent accounts of the April 9, 2015 encounter between Stubblefield and his accuser, referred to in court as Jane Doe.