BRIGHAM CITY — A detective investigating one allegation of rape against a then-Utah State University football player urged the suspect to be confident, failed to ask tough questions and falsely told the linebacker he wasn't investigating a rape.
Logan City police detective Kendall Olsen treated the star athlete "with kid gloves," according to prosecutors. But an attorney for 25-year-old Torrey Green called the friendly approach "a very real tactic" to gain rapport and get Green to talk with police.
"That was my hope," Olsen testified Monday in Brigham City's 1st District Court, the first day Green's defense team called witnesses in a trial on charges he raped five women and sexually assaulted a sixth.