Hovey sergeant acquitted in rape

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Hovey sergeant acquitted in rape
By Erik Slavin, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, January 20, 2008

CAMP CASEY, South Korea — There were two versions of what happened at the Milan Hotel on May 4, 2007.

Either Sgt. Michael D. Daniels raped a junior enlisted soldier after a night of drinking in Dongducheon, or the woman had consensual sex and accused Daniels of rape to explain a large hickey to her new boyfriend.

The six-member court-martial jury, after deliberating 30 minutes, found Daniel not guilty in a Camp Casey courtroom Friday.

“This is a case about regret, nothing more,” defense lawyer Capt. Brigid Osei-Bobie said. “She couldn’t explain the glaring hickey on her neck to an angry boyfriend.”

According to lawyers’ statements and testimony from Daniels and the female soldier, the night went like this:


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