PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon choose on Wednesday sentenced former NBA participant Ben McLemore to over eight years in jail, per week after a jury discovered him responsible of raping a lady at a 2021 social gathering on the residence of a then-teammate.
The ex-Portland Path Blazer was sentenced to 100 months in jail by Clackamas County Circuit Courtroom Choose Michael Wetzel, Portland TV station KGW reported. The jury final week discovered the 32-year-old responsible of rape, illegal sexual penetration and one depend of sexual abuse. He was discovered not responsible on one other depend of sexual abuse.
throughout the first half in opposition to the Houston Rockets at Moda Heart on March 25, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. Getty Photos
The fees concerned a 21-year-old girl and stemmed from a celebration at a house owned by then-teammate Robert Covington within the Portland suburb of Lake Oswego.
In the course of the trial, Clackamas County prosecutors described the sexual encounter as rape. The protection argued it was consensual intercourse.
The lady testified that she was incapacitated on account of alcohol, and was unable to consent, KGW reported. McLemore mentioned he had additionally been ingesting however testified that it was consensual.
McLemore, who performed faculty at Kansas, was the seventh choose within the 2013 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings. He additionally performed for Memphis, Houston and the Los Angeles Lakers earlier than his final NBA season with Portland in 2021-2022.
Since then, he has performed professionally abroad in Europe, China and Turkey.
