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College Student Sentenced To Over 12 Years In Prison For Rape But Didn't Have Sex With Victim

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Albert Wilson has maintained his innocence throughout the very complicated trial.

The case of Albert N. Wilson sounds like something out of an episode ofLaw and Order SVU. Wilson, a former University of Kansas student, attended a bar with a friend and met a girl who was visiting a family member who attended KU. The two were underage and under the influence when they left the bar to go back to Wilson's apartment. What happened next has changed both of their lives, leaving Wilson with a sentence of over 12 years in prison for rape, despite the notion that the two didn't have sex.

Lawrence Journal-World reports Wilson was given the sentence on Wednesday (April 3) in addition to a lifetime of probation and a mandatory sex offender title for the events that transpired in September 2016. Wilson, who was 20 at the time, met the then-17-year-old girl at popular college spot Jayhawk Cafe. While Wilson used a friend's ID to get into the bar, the young woman and her cousin who attended KU weren't carded.

Both parties agreed that they met while heading to the dance floor (weirdly titled the "Boom Boom Room") and danced with one another. Wilson allegedly lifted up the girl's skirt and touched her while they kissed. Shortly after, Wilson invited the girl back to his place, which was walking distance from the bar. Neither party apparently asked about each other's age.

The victim claimed Wilson took her back to his place where he raped her but Wilson shared a different story with the jury. “She didn’t seem intoxicated at all,” Wilson said as he claimed the two kissed and engaged in other sex acts but never had sexual intercourse.

Kansas Bureau of Investigation scientists testified that Wilson’s DNA was found on the girl’s chest — where he said he kissed her — but no seminal fluid or DNA was found. Swabs were collected from the girl the day after the incident from a nurse a local hospital. Photos of bruises were also taken on her inner thigh.

During the trial, Wilson maintained his innocence and explained why he initially claimed he didn't remember what happened at his apartment. “I don’t know how to explain this, but I come from a different background than you, ma’am,” said Wilson, who is black to Judge Sally Pokorny, who is white. “… I just felt like the police [were] against me at that point.”

Wilson's court-appointed attorney Forrest Lowry stated that the former student wasn't the man he was painted to be in the trial. The now 23-year-old was a Wichita Southeast High School football player with no criminal record. He earned his associate degree from a community college before transferring to KU and had dreams of becoming a sports journalist.

“It was a chance meeting. Obviously, my client misread what was going on,” Lowry said in court. “…If there was ever a case that deserved a departure of any kind, I think this is it.”

After a six-hour deliberation, the all-white jury convicted Wilson of rape. Wilson was given the reported "lowest end of what’s called for by Kansas sentencing guidelines for rape."

The case has gained attention, including supporters creating a website detailing some questionable aspects of the incident. Video surveillance showed the two engaging with one another throughout their encounter and that they were only at the apartment for five minutes before they headed back to the bar.

Many have questioned why Wilson was given a lengthy sentence but actual convicted rapists like Brock Turner were given lighter sentences.

Read more details of the case here and see reactions below.


beyonce's 1st born.@__AllThatJaz
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You mean to tell me there is video of her showing interest in him, walking back normal and there is no evidence or DNA that they had and he got 12 years in prison?!? Wtf!!! Then an all white jury with majority women. He was set up to fail smh #AlbertWilson

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Talia Marquez@TaliaMarquez
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Imagine this it’s 2009, 13 year-old Albert Wilson is beginning his 7th grade school year with his assigned summer reading To Kill A Mockingbird. As he’s reading, he stops and thanks God as he thinks to himself, “ill never have to face the racism that existed in 1936.”

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BREAKING: A former KU student has been sentenced to more than 12 years for raping a teen he met at a Lawrence college bar https://ljw.bz/2TTfCFt



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Anastasia Krasuski@ana_krasuskiNFL
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I didn’t personally know Albert but I am good friends with people who do know him. They are nothing but wonderful, kind, loving and selfless people and I assume the same traits about Albert. Please pray for this INNOCENT man and his family. #FREEALBERTWILSON

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BREAKING: A former KU student has been sentenced to more than 12 years for raping a teen he met at a Lawrence college bar https://ljw.bz/2TTfCFt



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Abiel@AbielTekie
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My heart is heavy tonight. This is the most pain i have felt in a long time. The world we live in is so cruel. Please, pray for Albert Wilson and his family. Please.


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Serious Jest@SeriousJest
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How does the jury convict of rape when a physical vaginal exam was done shortly after alleged crime and showed no DNA? And when surveillance video appears to counter her version that she was stumbling, incoherent, and led away? All-white... https://www.freealbertwilson.com/


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Kailey Ogden@teaamplasstic
· Apr 4, 2019

This makes me SICK. I’m all for women getting justice, but this girl blatantly LIED. This man is INNOCENT. Don’t @ me.


Kailey Ogden@teaamplasstic

If you don’t know this story, but want some background information, look at this website. The Kansas system has failed this guy. He needs justice. https://www.freealbertwilson.com


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This is an atrocity and Jay-z's legal team need to help this young man.The NFL,NBA and some Rappers/entertainers need to donate a thousand to help fight this case and get him out.

Being judge by a group of your peers is bullshit,white jurors,white judges,white legal system is bullshit and still hanging n-word for sport.I pray he gets out
 
:smh: So sick of shit like this.

No intercourse, video evidence of them and they were only at his apartment for minutes before returning to the bar and he still gets railroaded.

The fuck!?!?!? :angry:
 
Man this is some complete bullshit. :angry:

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Just like ole times...only difference is methodology.. In 1893...after a confession obtained through torture Henry Smith was hung in Paris, Tx..for murdering a lil white girl but, only after being beaten, tortured and castrated..the steaming buckets mid gallows are hot tar poured on him to illicit screams for the crowd's enjoyment before hanging him.

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Family Day Weekend in Lawrence, KS is a yearly tradition where student’s family and friends come together to celebrate the start of the new school year. Thousands of people visit creating a contagious excitement that carries into the night, especially in the area known as “The Triangle”.

A night that would come to be filled with accusations against Albert Wilson. The night began at a famous bar within "The Triangle” — that bar historically known as “The Hawk”.

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According to the affidavit obtained from the court, Mr. Wilson and his friend are seen on camera entering the bar at this time. Advertised as a 21 and older bar, “The Hawk” has gained an infamous reputation for allowing the entry of underage kids using fake ids. This is what Mr. Wilson is seen doing to gain entry into the bar.

On the other end of the bar, according to the testimony of Daniel Carroll — a witness that worked at “The Hawk” — and as seen on video, the accuser, her cousin, and him walk into “The Hawk” without getting carded or stopped. All this occurs under the management of Sam Amrein, also, another witness in this case.

As the night goes on, Mr. Wilson is enjoying his night like any other student in the local bar. He did not know that an interaction that had sparked up with a girl in the line to the “Boom Boom Room” would change his life forever. The accuser and her cousin meet Albert and his friend. The accuser pulls his arm as they head into the dance room, but Mr. Wilson hesitates in order to ensure his friend was coming in as well — this was seen on video and heard during testimony presented to the court.

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Once in the dance room, Mr. Wilson admits to having kissed and touched the accuser.

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As seen on video, Mr. Wilson and the accuser are seen leaving the bar together and walking down 14th Street hand in hand.

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According to Google Maps, it takes approximately 4 to 5 minutes to reach Mr. Wilson’s home when leaving “The Hawk” depending on the conditions of the area. According to the affidavit, Mr. Wilson’s friend received a call from Mr. Wilson at 12:17am.

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Using the assumption from Google Maps, Mr. Wilson and the accuser would have reached his house at 12:20am. According to the affidavit, Mr. Wilson’s friend calls Mr. Wilson back at 12:21am.

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According to the affidavit, around approximately 12:30am the morning of September 11th, 2016 Mr. Wilson calls his friend. Mr. Wilson is seen walking back with the accuser then meeting up with his friend and leaving. Using the assumption from Google Maps, Mr. Wilson and the accuser would have left his home around 12:25am in order to make it back at 12:30am.

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After appearing in court on November 22nd, Mr. Wilson sat there listening to the accuser tell events of the night. Mr. Wilson watched on, his attorney, Forest Lowry, began to cross examine the accuser. It was after his cross examination and asking the accuser if force was directly use that Mr. Wilson’s charges were changed from one count to two counts after Amy McGowan requested a short recess.

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In addition Mr. Wilson’s trial is pushed back to a later date.

January 7th 2019
The trial begins with jury selection on January 7th. Mr. Wilson is up against an all-white jury.

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January 8th 2019
Throughout the day Amy McGowan gave her opening statements and the accuser and witnesses took the stand.

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January 9th 2019
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Mr. Wilson takes the stand to give the court his account of the events. Also, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation testifies that no seminal or DNA evidence was found.


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January 10th 2019

Amy McGowan gives her closing arguments..

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Mr. Wilson’s attorney gives he closing arguments.

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After 6 hours of deliberation, the jury finds Mr. Wilson guilty for the accusation of rape that occurred at his home, but could not agree on the accusation of rape that occurred at “The Hawk”.
 
Defendant at trial: ‘She didn’t seem intoxicated at all … I didn’t rape her’
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JAN 9, 2019 - 7:50PM

SARA SHEPHERD
sshepherd@ljworld.com


  • heard a young woman tearfully testify that she was 17, dizzy-drunk at a college bar, assaulted on the dance floor and then led away and raped by a man she’d just met.

    Jurors heard a very different account from that man.

    Albert N. Wilson, 23, of Lawrence, took the stand at his own trial on Wednesday and described the Saturday night in September 2016 when he met the alleged victim at the Jayhawk Cafe, better known as the Hawk, just off the University of Kansas campus at 1340 Ohio St. He’s charged with two counts of rape, for alleged contact in the bar and then at his home nearby.

    “She didn’t seem intoxicated at all,” Wilson said. He also said the pair’s contact inside the bar was mutual and that they never had intercourse, as the girl testified.

    Wilson was the final witness in the trial, in which the girl’s level of intoxication and disputed consent are key factors. Attorneys are to give closing arguments Thursday morning before turning the case over to the jury. Wilson is free on bond.

    Wilson testified that he now lives in Wichita but was a full-time KU student at the time, after getting his associate’s degree at a community college. That night, he and a friend met the girl and her cousin in line to get into the Boom Boom Room — the dark, crowded dance floor in the basement of the Hawk.

    He didn’t know she was 17, and she seemed like any other college student, he said. She was staring at him, they talked, and then she started touching him, he said.

    Surveillance footage from the bar, shown in court Wednesday, shows her pulling him by the hand into the Boom Boom Room.

    In the dark room, Wilson said his back was against the wall and they both started touching each other. He denied placing the girl’s hand inside his pants, as she testified, and said she placed her own hand on him. He said he did touch the girl under her skirt but that it was consensual and she never rebuffed him.

    When he told her he was going home and that she could come if she wanted, she said, “OK,” Wilson testified.

    He denied the girl’s previous testimony that she resisted or said anything about needing to find her cousin, whom she’d lost in the crowd.

    Surveillance footage from the bar shows Wilson pulling the girl by the hand back through the crowded bar and outside. Other cameras show the pair walking hand in hand around the corner and down the 14th Street hill toward Wilson’s house, two blocks away at 1340 Kentucky St.

    While the girl previously testified that she drunkenly stumbled, Wilson said she stumbled on a sidewalk crack on the steep hill. When he asked if she was OK, he said that she jumped on him, wrapping her arms and legs around him and continuing to kiss him.

    While consent was never verbalized, Wilson said, he believed they were headed to his place to have sex and that she was on board. The girl testified that she told Wilson no, but he testified that she never said that.

    Wilson responded to a series of questions about their interactions from his appointed attorney, Forrest Lowry.

    “Did she ever tell you, ‘No, I’m too drunk, I don’t want to do this?'”

    “No, sir.”

    “Did she ever do anything or say anything to make you think she didn’t want to have sex with you?”

    “No.”

    “If she had said no, what would you have done?”

    “I would have took her back to the bar.”

    Videos show the two returning to the bar — this time not hand-in-hand — about 15 to 20 minutes after they left.

    Wilson estimated they were only actually inside his room for about 5 minutes. He said the girl came upstairs with him, lay on the bed and they continued to make out. He said he never removed her clothes and that he did not have sex with her.

    Wilson said he got a “where you at” text and a missed call from his friend at the bar and decided to go see what he needed. When he told the girl he was leaving, she gave him a “mad look,” and they both walked back toward the bar, Wilson said.

    Prosecutor Amy McGowan attacked this in particular, asking why Wilson didn’t just ignore his buddy or text back that he was with a girl and to leave him alone.

    “That’s what you want us all to believe that happened?” she said.

    “Yes,” Wilson responded.

    McGowan also reiterated that Wilson had watched the woman, with whom he had no prior history, in tears saying that he raped her. McGowan asked if Wilson thought she made that accusation because she was mad that he wouldn’t have sex with her.

    “I believe so,” Wilson said.

    He reiterated that the girl was not drunk, they didn’t have sex and, “I didn’t rape her.”

    Kansas Bureau of Investigation scientists testified that while Wilson’s DNA was found on the girl’s chest — where he said he kissed her — no seminal fluid or DNA was found on her clothing or on a vaginal swab.

    The nurse who performed a sexual assault examination on the girl at a hospital the day after the incident testified on Tuesday. Diana Layson said that in addition to collecting swabs from the girl, she took photos of bruises on her inner thigh.

    Confronting Wilson in court, McGowan also pointed out that his story on the witness stand didn’t match what he previously told police.

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    Albert N. Wilson, charged with rape, appears Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, during his trial in Douglas County District Court.

    About two months after the incident, Wilson went to the police station willingly and cooperated when officers searched his apartment, but repeatedly told officers that he didn’t remember anything about that night.

    “I told the police I didn’t remember because I didn’t want to say anything to incriminate myself at that time,” Wilson said in court Wednesday.

    The alleged victim in the case is white. McGowan, who is also white, asked Wilson why — if he didn’t do anything wrong — he didn’t just tell the officers what he told the jurors, who all also appear to be white.

    “I don’t know how to explain this, but I come from a different background than you, ma’am,” said Wilson, who is black. “… I just felt like the police was against me at that point.”

    • Also on Wednesday, longtime Lawrence-based forensic psychologist John Spiridigliozzi described his evaluation of the woman, corroborating trauma she and her mother previously described to jurors.

    “She said she was raped … and it destroyed her,” he said.

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    John Spiridigliozzi, a Lawrence-based forensic psychologist, testifies on behalf of the state on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, during the trial of Albert N. Wilson in Douglas County District Court. Spiridigliozzi evaluated the alleged victim, who testified that Wilson raped her after they left a Lawrence college bar together in September 2016.

    Spiridigliozzi, hired by the district attorney’s office, said he interviewed the woman and people she was close with in early 2018. He diagnosed her with post-traumatic stress disorder, with “very serious symptoms” persisting even at the time of his evaluation, more than a year after the incident. She maintained stellar grades in high school and when she went on to college out of state, he said, but because of unhealthily throwing herself into schoolwork to cope.

    He said her mental health and family and friend relationships deteriorated. He said she had recurring nightmares, could not function in crowds at school, couldn’t sleep and had continuing panic attacks, among other problems.

    • The Lawrence police officers who investigated the case shed some light on two notable delays in the process.

    For one, almost a month passed before the girl reported the rape to police. Then, a full year passed before authorities filed criminal charges against the alleged assailant.

    Officer Lindsay Bishop said that police were first notified of the incident by the Kansas Department for Children and Families. The nurse who examined the girl at the hospital, considered a mandated reporter, told the agency about the situation because the girl was 17 at the time, Bishop said.

    Bishop said she made several attempts to contact the girl before, a few weeks after the incident, the girl’s mother called the Lawrence Police Department. She described the incident and had questions and concerns about what an investigation would look like and what it would mean for her daughter. They then scheduled the girl’s police interview in early October 2016, about a month after the event.

    As for the charges, the department sent forensic samples to the KBI for testing but didn’t get them back until September of 2017, Bishop said. She said those results may have been considered prior to charging Wilson.
 
THREAD_CRITIC said:
Why do people say dumb shit like this ?
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cause niggas like you won't do shit,you're apart of that generation that's part of the problem.You probably skipped out on jury duty a bunch of times which might of helped someone that looks like you from going to prison on bullshit like this case.
 
34real said:
cause niggas like you won't do shit,you're apart of that generation that's part of the problem.You probably skipped out on jury duty a bunch of times which might of helped someone that looks like you from going to prison on bullshit like this case.
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Says the person who instead of talking about what he was going to do or suggested a gofund me immediately went to talkin about rappers and athletes:rolleyes:
 

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