NEW HAMPSHIRE
ABC News
Aug 18, 2015
By SUSANNA KIM and MICHELE McPHEE
via GOOD MORNING AMERICA
Opening arguments and testimony begin today for a rape case involving an elite New Hampshire prep school that has raised questions about the campus culture.
The defendant, Owen Labrie, 19, of Tunbridge, Vermont, is a graduate of St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. He is accused of raping a 15-year old girl on campus on May 30, 2014, days before he graduated.
Labrie’s attorney, Boston defense attorney J.W. Carney, displayed enlarged printouts of email exchanged between Labrie and the alleged victim before that time, including what he called “romantic” language in French.
“Neither of us were there. None of you were there. What we have to focus on is the evidence,” Carney told the jury today, asking them to zero in on the alleged victim’s words about whether she was a “willing participant.”
He read to the jury a text message conversation that allegedly took place after May 30 in which the alleged victim asked Labrie if he wore a condom and he asks if she was using “the pill,” and the two text “haha” several times.
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