Mike DiNovo-USA TODAY Sports
Michael W. Fitzgerald, a United States District judge in Los Angeles, has ruled that the woman who filed a civil suit accusing Derrick Rose of rape must reveal her identity if she is to proceed. Until today, the woman has been known only as Jane Doe. Framing the case as not one of rape, but extortion, and pointing to press conferences and interviews she has conducted, Rose's legal team has attacked the accuser's credibility and argued that the Knicks point guard would be harmed by her continued anonymity. Judge Fitzgerald apparently agreed.The accuser alleges that Rose and two of his friends forced their way into her apartment and gang raped her in the early morning of August 27, 2013, after she blacked out and vomited from drinking so much.''As soon as I woke up, I was dressed, I had my dress on from the previous night and I never go to sleep with what I'm wearing. I always prepare myself first to go to sleep,'' the women said during the interview in Oakland, a couple of hours from where she grew up in Northern California. ''So I had the dress and it was up on my neck and I felt very wet and slippery. There was lubricant all over my bed and on my legs. Everything was tossed in my bed. There was a condom wrapper and a closed one not used.''That was just shocking to see all that, almost like I didn't want to believe it.''Rose's legal team has similarly attacked the accuser's decision to file the 2015 civil suit, rather than press criminal charges. However, according to TMZ and her attorney Brandon Anand, she has filed a police report and intends on pressing charges. Anand told TMZ the decision to file a civil claim first was because the two-year statute of limitations was about to run out, whereas the statute of limitations in a criminal case is six years.[AP]
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