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Baltimore Sun: Midshipman claims alleged assault victim was aware during party encounter

The Baltimore Sun reports:

A Naval Academy midshipman once accused of sexual assault testified for the first time in open court Tuesday, telling a military judge that when he got into a car with a female classmate outside a 2012 off-campus party, he didn’t think she was too drunk to know what she was doing.

Midshipman Eric Graham said the alleged victim may have smelled of alcohol, but was talking and moving around on the night of a party that resulted in accusations of sexual assault against Graham and two others.

“I didn’t see anything wrong with her,” he testified during a deposition in military court at the Washington Navy Yard.

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