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Defense Seeks to Ban Pink Clothing at LSU Student Madison Brooks Rape Trial | Crime Alert 08.06.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sylvanni, one of the three men accused of
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  Speaker 2: raping a young woman before she was killed, wants to
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  Speaker 2: prevent her family, friends, and supporters from wearing pink at
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  Speaker 2: his upcoming trial. Madison Brooks, a nineteen year old Louisiana
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  Speaker 2: State University student, was hit by a car and killed
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  Speaker 2: after a group of men allegedly raped her and dumped
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  Speaker 2: her on a Baton Rouge Highway in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: Desmond Carter, twenty one, is set to appear before a
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  Speaker 2: judge later this month. Prosecutors alleged Carter, alongside kave In
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  Speaker 2: Washington and Case and Carver, sexually assaulted Brooks inside a
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  Speaker 2: vehicle following a night of heavy drinking at a local bar.
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  Speaker 2: All three men face rape charges. Carter's defense team filed
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  Speaker 2: emotion seeking to prohibit pink attire and supportive messages, arguing
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  Speaker 2: it could unfairly influence the jury. The defense cited Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court cases Shepherd versus Maxwell and Estas versus Texas regarding
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  Speaker 2: media driven atmospheres and trial fairness. Prosecutors oppose the motion,
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  Speaker 2: characterizing pink clothing as victim advocacy rather than jury intimidation.
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  Speaker 2: Evidence submitted includes social media posts by Ashley Bostt, Brook's
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  Speaker 2: mother asking supporters to wear pink to court hearings while
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  Speaker 2: praying for justice for her daughter. Bostart says wearing pink
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  Speaker 2: is a peaceful act of remembrance, stating no legal defense
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  Speaker 2: motion can silence those who love Brooks. Bostt founded the
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  Speaker 2: Madison Brooks Foundation to advocate for young adult safety, sharing
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  Speaker 2: her devastating grief, It's.
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  Speaker 1: Been a complete nightmare. The worst possible thing that can
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  Speaker 1: happen to anyone happen to my daughter. And not only
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  Speaker 1: was my daughter, but she was my best friend. We
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  Speaker 1: did everything together. The best memories I have are spent
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  Speaker 1: being her mother, and that's what I have to hold
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  Speaker 1: on to every day. That's what gets me out of bed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to live as well as I can until
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  Speaker 1: I'm reunit reunited with her in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Brooks was allegedly raped in the backseat of a car
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  Speaker 2: by Carter tried as an adult alongside Washington and Carver
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  Speaker 2: after leaving Reggie's Bar. The defendants claim the encounter was
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  Speaker 2: consensual before leaving her on a roadway. However, vehicle. Footage
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  Speaker 2: shows Brooks arguing with her alleged attackers before stumbling out,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry that I shouldn't do that. Investigator said Brooks
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  Speaker 2: had a blood alcohol content of point three poet nine
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  Speaker 2: when she stumbled onto the road. The driver of the
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  Speaker 2: ride share car that struck her was cleared of charges
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  Speaker 2: after testing sober and immediately calling emergency responders. The coroner
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  Speaker 2: concluded Brooks died from traumatic injuries after being raped. More
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  Speaker 2: crime and justice news after this. In Eustace, Florida, a
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight year old man faces attempted murder and assault
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  Speaker 2: charges after police body worn camera shows him dragging an
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  Speaker 2: officer during a traffic stop. Eustace police noticed a vehicle
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  Speaker 2: swerving on South Bay Street around two thirty am. The
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  Speaker 2: driver attempted to evade officers by turning off a side
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  Speaker 2: road before stopping at South Eustace Street and Quail Avenue
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  Speaker 2: with smoke billowing from under the hood due to mechanical issues.
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  Speaker 2: Officers approached the driver, Shackoy Donovan, who refused repeated orders
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  Speaker 2: to turn off the ignition or exit the vehicle, leading
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  Speaker 2: to a tense exchange.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's not a smoking I mean it's not smoke.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it is doing. Its going turn it off.
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  Speaker 2: The star off is not going.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, but what's going on? Stop out? I'm not
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  Speaker 1: about I was going on. Stop out all right?
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  Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa?
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  Speaker 1: Get no, no, please get on me. No this is.
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  Speaker 2: Donovan then grabbed the female officer and drove off, dragging
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  Speaker 2: her by the vest. A second officer was dragged ten
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  Speaker 2: to fifteen feet, sustaining superficial injuries. The female officer was
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  Speaker 2: dragged over three hundred feet pinned between the suspect and
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  Speaker 2: the steering wheel before falling to the ground. Chief Craig
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  Speaker 2: Caprice stated that eight or nine seconds feels like hours
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  Speaker 2: when living through it. The officer was found motionless in
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  Speaker 2: the street and hospitalized. In Bloomington, Indiana, an eighteen year
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  Speaker 2: old man under arrest told police how he bit the
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  Speaker 2: skin of an infant in his care. Caden Lewis Shrum
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  Speaker 2: was arrested by Monroe County Sheriff's deputies following a search
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  Speaker 2: starting July twenty ninth. The investigation began July fifteenth after
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  Speaker 2: a pediatrician reported a nine month old baby with severe
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  Speaker 2: bitemarks covering the entire left cheek. While at the hospital,
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  Speaker 2: Shrum admitted to police and family that he was responsible.
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  Speaker 2: Shrum claimed he was watching television around four am when
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  Speaker 2: the baby began crying. In a bid to soothe the child,
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  Speaker 2: he nibbled the cheek before repeatedly chomping down on the
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  Speaker 2: infant skin. Shrum further described the baby to police as
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  Speaker 2: looking like a busted up egg. Following the violent encounter,
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  Speaker 2: online court records show Shrum has been charged with battery
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  Speaker 2: by means of a deadly weapon and criminal recklessness committed
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  Speaker 2: with a deadly weapon. Court records state he is held
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  Speaker 2: without bond. For more crime and justice news, be sure
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  Speaker 2: with this crime alert, I'm Sidney Silvani.