Brian Melley

Jurors have cleared NBA star Derrick Rose and two friends in a lawsuit that accused them of gang raping his ex-girlfriend when she was incapacitated from drugs or alcohol. The jury reached the verdict Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court after hearing dramatically different accounts of the August 2013 sexual encounter.

The judge in the trial of a rape lawsuit against NBA star Derrick Rose and two other men said Tuesday that he’s considering a mistrial after criticizing the plaintiff’s lawyers as “unbelievably careless” in production of exhibits. Rose’s lawyers asked U.S. District Court Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald to declare a mistrial because they had not been given three text messages important to their case until Friday, when Rose was on the witness stand.

A woman who accuses Derrick Rose and two friends of gang rape in a $21.5 million lawsuit became emotional Thursday after the NBA star entered the courtroom for the first time as she testified about how intoxicated she was on the night in question. “I’ve never felt like that before,” the 30-year-old said. “I just felt I was less in control, more goofy.” As she began to connect a night of drinking at Rose’s Beverly Hills mansion on Aug. 26, 2013, with the disputed incident in the early morning at her apartment, there was a long pause as she wept quietly, hiding her face behind a computer screen on the witness stand.

A federal court jury of six women and two men was selected Wednesday for the trial of a $21 million lawsuit by a woman who claims she was gang-raped by NBA star Derrick Rose and two other men.