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Testifying about a campus tradition which allegedly encourages seniors to have sexual encounters with as many younger female students as possible. 19-year-old defendant owen labrie has pled not guilty and he has the emails and text messages to prove it. >> you are a gem. let me know if theres anything i can do. he replies, youre not too bad yourself. >> time to bring in arthur aidala and jonna spilbor, both former prosecutors. its a he said, she said with text messages thrown in, right, jonna? >...

Invitation to meet, he took him up on his offer. >> eventually, i was thinking, okay, heres a person who has paid special attention to me. how nice. it sounds like hes pretty genuine. >> a school statement regarding the purported contest says in part, current allegations about our culture are not emblematic of our school or values. msnbcs jamie novograd is live outside the courthouse jamie, this accuser seems to have made a big impact in her testimony today. >> well, reverend, so far the case is...

Countrys most elite schools. its a laboratory for our national leadership, any number of government leaders and business leaders have been produced by this school. and the boy is accused of raping this young woman as a part of a campus practice of sexual conquest. the former student says that he did not have sex with her, as you noted. and he says that he had a moment of, quote, divine inspiration, and im quoting from an interview that he did with police in that he said interrupted whatever he w...

Think he will testify in this case. and the prosecutors know what theyre up against. this is a young man who was appointed a dorm leader. he has a stellar academic record. he was a senior at a prep school and had plans to attend harvard university. the prosecutors looked at the juror in her opening statement and told jurors, take a look at him. this is not what most people thing a typical rape accuser looks like. look at the defendant. they know thats what theyre up against. this accusers credib...

Girls, of this senior rite to rape women. >> sexual conquest. >> sexual conquest. >> which the accused has already admitted goes on. hes just saying is it didnt happen in this case. >> yes, hes admitted that its gone on. and thats where the prosecution has to be very careful about, not to overstate that part of it in reference to what happened because when you have an accuser like this, just like judge faith just said, when you have an accuser and they dont have any physical evidence, its going ...

Thank you as always. >> all right. you bet. now to a small town trial gaining national attention, a serious case, a 19-year-old graduate of an elite boarding school accused of raping a 15-year-old girl at the school. prosecutors allege its part of a sick game and tradition. what can you tell us? >> reporter: ari, good afternoon. the defendant or rather the accuser in the case, a woman who was 15 at the time of the alleged crime, has just taken the stand. she is being questioned by the prosecut...

The scene of the alleged room, the roof or the top area of a math and science building and after that they visited an interview room inside the local police department here. in the absence or prior to the testimony from the accuser in this case, much of this case was hinging on the culture of the school. this morning we heard opening arguments from the prosecution and the defense, both of which made reference to the culture at the school but in different ways, ari. the prosecution framed the cas...

Prosecution and defense. heard their opening statements and each side said that the accuser, the defense said that the defendant will testify in this case, which means that the court will hear each side of this story that has raised a lot of uncomfortable questions about sexual life, particularly on the campus of one of the nations most elite schools. in the meantime, what the court heard from, or heard about today, was this issue of the culture on campus. the prosecutor, we all heard the sound ...

The people who represent our student body, alumni, faculty and staff." beyond that, when you look at the defendant himself, were learning that he was supposed to go to harvard. he was actually going to study religion. do you think that some of that information is going to come up in this trial, phillip, to sort of build up his character? >> i do. because a persons good character, on the other hand, can sometimes be used as a defense. the things we saw in these opening statements, thats not evide...

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