Rape Trial Set For Ex-Bsu Student Officer

Thu., June 13, 1996

From Staff And Wire Reports

A trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 7 for former Boise State University student vice president Darryl L. Wright, who pleaded innocent to raping an unconscious Idaho State University student leader.

Wright, 28, of Boise, is accused of raping the woman in his Lewiston hotel room last Oct. 15 during a statewide student government conference.

Magistrate Stephen Calhoun ruled on Tuesday after almost two days of testimony at Wright’s preliminary hearing that there was substantial circumstantial evidence that the woman was raped while she was unconscious as a result of drinking.

At the request of his lawyers, Wright was arraigned within the hour before 2nd District Judge Ida Rudolph Leggett, who accepted his plea and set the trial date.

The issue to be decided is not whether sexual intercourse occurred between Wright and the woman, who was 20 at the time, but whether she was conscious and able to consent.

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