NEW HAMPSHIRE
CNN
[with video]
By Aaron Cooper, Boris Sanchez and Steve Almasy, CNN
Concord, New Hampshire (CNN)Speaking in a calm and assured tone, the graduate of a prestigious New England prep school on trial for rape testified Wednesday that he put on a condom but didn’t have sex with a female fellow student because it “didn’t feel like the right move.”
With his accuser watching in the courtroom, 19-year-old Owen Labrie described the encounter last year with the now-16-year-old girl as consensual.
Labrie said that the two sneaked into an attic room in a St. Paul’s School academic building a few days before graduation and together spread a flannel blanket Labrie brought with him.
Sweatshirts, shirts and later pants were removed, he testified, but all of their underwear stayed on.
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