![]() ![]() She said she wasn’t sure what happened, but the other students had left en masse. Suddenly, she said, they were alone in the room. She let him know she wasn’t comfortable with that, she said, but he continued to kiss her roughly, using his teeth. Had she refused, she said, “I don’t know what people would have thought of me.”Īt the frat, the two were talking in a room with a number of other people when Wolff started trying to take off her dress and pinned her hands to the wall, she said. The woman said she was open to getting physical with Wolff, in part because there was social pressure to do so: “This is what you do, you hook up with your date after date party,” she testified. A friend of hers repeatedly got in between them with an electronic cigarette to try to provide some relief, she said.Īfter the boat party, a number of students went back to Phi Psi, at 2424 Warring St., to continue to socialize. She said Wolff got into an argument with a security guard and came off as “entitled.” As they danced, he repeatedly encroached on her personal space in a way that made her uncomfortable. On the boat, the young woman testified, she and Wolff talked and got to know each other, but there were immediate red flags. As part of that event, older members of Phi Psi and the young woman’s sorority (which she has since left) set up younger members on dates. 2, 2017, social event that their Greek organizations had arranged. Wolff and the young woman were both UC Berkeley freshmen who met for the first time on campus as part of the Nov. 3, 2017, attributing that largely to the social expectations from her sorority and Wolff’s fraternity that the two of them would have sex after a “date party” on a boat several hours earlier. She acknowledged that she never tried to leave the Phi Psi bedroom where they spent about 2.5 hours alone on Nov. When she testified, Jane Doe 1 described extensive, deep bruising on her body resulting from Wolff, which did not heal completely for more than two months. Cooper argued, further, that his client had not been able to maintain an erection that night, so there had been no “actual intercourse.” Jane Doe 1, Cooper said, had an “after-the-fact realization” where she came to think she had been raped. On Monday, Judge Thomas Rogers ruled, at the end of the preliminary hearing, that sufficient evidence had been presented for the case to proceed to trial.Ĭooper, who was retained privately by the Wolff family, had asked the judge to dismiss all the 2017 charges against his client because Wolff believed, at the time, that it had been a consensual encounter. In May, the Alameda County district attorney’s office charged Wolff with three counts of forcible rape in relation to one woman, in 2017, and sexual battery and forced oral copulation in connection with the other, in 2019, among other charges, court documents show. The fraternity removed Wolff from Phi Psi in December 2018, its leadership told Berkeleyside previously, following multiple allegations of sexual assault against him during his freshman and sophomore years at UC Berkeley. The other said Wolff grabbed her aggressively, bit her and repeatedly raked his teeth across her body, at times breaking the skin, until she eventually agreed to have sex with him after a fraternity “date party” in 2017 at Phi Kappa Psi. One of the young women said Wolff punched her twice and forced her to perform oral sex on him on a balcony on Warring Street in March. Wolff and his parents both appeared in court for the hearing, which began Wednesday and ended Monday.īoth women - addressed by the court as Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 due to the nature of the charges - testified during three days of hearings. Wolff’s attorney, Colin Cooper of Cooper, Cooper and Morris, said the young man is living with his parents in Utah while the case is underway. ![]() Photo: BPDįinn Wolff, the 20-year-old man who was arrested at his Southside Berkeley home by police investigators in May, is on interim suspension from Cal as a result of the allegations against him. Photo: Emilie RagusoĪ UC Berkeley student charged with raping one young woman at his former fraternity in 2017 and forcing another to perform oral sex on him earlier this year must stand trial, an Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled Monday afternoon. Finn Wolff leans against the wall as he waits with his parents during a break from court Sept. ![]()
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