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Sunday, May 19, 2002
Rapper
‘SPM’ convicted of sexually assaulting girl
Associated Press
HOUSTON — A
jury on Saturday convicted rap musician Carlos Coy, who is known
as “South Park Mexican,” of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old
girl who spent the night at his home last September.
Coy, 31, faces up
to life in prison. Jurors are expected to begin considering evidence
in the sentencing portion of his trial Monday.
State District Judge
Mark Kent Ellis required jurors to continue their deliberations
Saturday after they received the case on Friday. The jury spent
eight hours deliberating before returning the guilty verdict.
The girl, now 10,
testified at one point that she didn’t remember what happened
and that she could have dreamed Coy touched her inappropriately.
She later said the incident was real.
Coy’s attorney,
Chip Lewis, showed jurors portions of movies which the girl had
watched, including: Scream, Scream 2 and I Know What You Did Last
Summer.
He also showed portions
of Scary Movie and Scary Movie Part 2, which Lewis said depicted
the sexual acts the girl had alleged against his client.
“The principle
is that a child who is not sure if (the alleged act) was a dream
or reality has got to get the idea from somewhere,” Lewis
said.
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