http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/sports/basketball/judge-rules-derrick-rose-case-will-continue.html 2016-10-12 20:04:58 Judge Rules Derrick Rose Case Will Continue The judge in Derrick Rose’s civil rape trial denied a motion by Rose’s legal team for a dismissal or a mistrial on Wednesday. === LOS ANGELES — The judge in Derrick Rose’s civil rape trial denied a motion by Rose’s legal team for a dismissal or a mistrial on Wednesday morning, and the trial entered its sixth day. The lawyers for Rose, an All-Star guard acquired by the Knicks over the summer, and two other defendants argued that the omission of three text messages from evidence submitted by the woman’s lawyers was grounds for dismissal or a mistrial. Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald acknowledged that the texts could be helpful to the eight-person jury, but he ruled that their exclusion did not measure up to the precedent established in previous cases for which a dismissal or a mistrial was declared. Calling the omission inadvertent, Brandon Anand, one of the representatives for the woman who accused the defendants of rape, said, “They don’t add anything new.” Anand noted that he and another lawyer, Waukeen McCoy, had replaced the woman’s previous legal team, and suggested the switch could have resulted in an oversight — and the failure to disclose the texts. Rose’s lawyer, Mark Baute, accused the defense’s representatives of consciously leaving the texts out of the evidence. “If anyone in court believes this legal team did not hold the texts on purpose, that is naïve,” Baute said. Michael Monico, the lawyer for the two other men, Ryan Allen and Randall Hampton, added: “This isn’t random. They knew exactly what they were doing.” Rose and the woman have completed their testimony, though Baute indicated he would seek to question the accuser about the contents of the texts. The woman is asking for at least $21.5 million from Rose, Allen and Hampton. Rose