Judge: Jury can’t view video in Iowa assault case

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The judge presiding over a former University of Iowa football player’s sexual abuse trial has denied a request from deliberating jurors to review video testimony from one of the alleged victim’s friends.

Judge Paul Miller told jurors Wednesday that they must rely on their memories of the video testimony of Christine Kuczek.

Kuczek testified that she was drinking with the alleged victim hours before the alleged assault happened in October 2007. Kuczek said her friend told her the next morning she had been raped, and that she took her friend to the hospital.

Prosecutors say former Hawkeyes defensive back Cedric Everson had nonconsensual sex with the woman while she was passed out in a dorm room and after one of his teammates sexually assaulted her. He denies wrongdoing.