Madison Brooks Rape Trial- Its been over 2 years

BATON ROUGE - An appeals court has ruled that defense lawyers cannot use Madison Brooks' sexual history in their attempt to combat rape charges.

Arrest documents say Brooks, a 19-year-old LSU student, left Reggie's Bar with Casen Carver, Kaivon Washington, Desmond Carter and Everett Lee in the early morning hours of Jan. 15, 2023. The group went to a parking lot, where Washington and Carter are accused of raping Brooks in the backseat of Carver's vehicle. The men told officers that Brooks requested to go home and they took her to an address in the Pelican Lakes subdivision and dropped her off. After they left, Brooks wandered into the roadway and was hit and killed by a rideshare driver.

Washington, Carter and Carver were arrested for rape. Carver is charged with rape even though there is no evidence that he had sex with Brooks.

Attorneys for Carver and Carter argued that new evidence presented a year after Brooks was killed showed that she had consensual rough sex with another man the day before she died. They said the injuries noted during her autopsy were not from the alleged rape that occurred in the back of Carver's vehicle.

In March 2024, District Attorney Hillar Moore said the motion violates the Louisiana Code of Evidence because it discusses a victim's past sexual behavior, which the code requires to be in documents kept separate and sealed.

A year later, the First Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the DA, saying that the newly found evidence could not be used at trial.

"The evidence of M. B.' s alleged past sexual behavior is excluded at this juncture. The fundamental right to present a defense does not require the trial court to admit irrelevant evidence or evidence with such little probative value that it is substantially outweighed by other legitimate considerations," the decision said.
Moore said his office was satisfied with the decision.

"We are pleased with the court’s ruling that will prohibit the defendant from introducing overly prejudicial and irrelevant evidence at the trial.," he said in a statement.

WBRZ

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Who is Madison Brooks?

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LSU student who was allegedly raped by several guys in a car while she was drunk, then left to walk home by herself leading to her being hit by a car and killed.

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then left to walk home by herself leading to her being hit by a car and killed

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This should get some triggering responses

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Was the guy that hit her arrested?

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No, he was an Uber driver and it was dark AF and she was in the middle of the road.

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Complicated case with multiple defendants 3-4 years I would guess before a trial

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wouldn't be at all surprised if the prosecution is going slow trying to work a plea deal at the family's request, there's potential for a lot of unpleasant things to be revealed at trail

This case doesn't move the needle for me. Allison Rice is the big case that needs a resolution.

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Complicated case with multiple defendants 3-4 years I would guess before a trial

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I see that now.

None of this is good.

That poor girl.

This trial is gonna be a mess

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What happened to Allie?

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Shot at the government tracks

Police worthless in finding anything

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Shot at the government tracks

Police worthless in finding anything

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Good lord.

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Defense is gonna show that she regularly got wasted and let randoms bang her.

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so will these other people get arrested for rape too?