<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>The Multnomah County district attorney?s office will not pursue criminal charges against four Utah Jazz basketball players who were accused of rape in an October incident at a downtown Portland hotel.In a memo declining prosecution dated Jan. 2, Senior Deputy District Attorney Donald Rees wrote that the accuser could not positively identify her two attackers, though she had gone up to a room in the RiverPlace Hotel with four Jazz players: Dee Brown, Deron Williams, Ronnie Brewer and Paul Milsap. Investigators found no physical evidence implicatingany of the men.The accuser has stopped cooperating with police and has not returned repeated phone calls from the victims? advocate assigned to her case, according to the memo.The memo said the Jazz players met the woman, whose name is redacted from the copy obtained by the Portland Tribune, at a strip club where she worked. They flirted in a taxi on the way to the hotel, stopping off in a convenience store along the way so Brewer could buy condoms.Rees wrote that the accuser, according to the cabdriver?s statement, reportedly said she wanted to have sex with two of the men at the same time.At about 2:30 a.m. Oct. 23, RiverPlace employees saw Brown, Williams, Brewer and Milsap enter the hotel lobby with the woman. The players appeared to have to convince the woman to go farther, Rees wrote, but after a little time they all got in an elevator and went up to the fourth floor together. About 40 minutes later, according to Rees? memo, the woman emerged ? alone and naked ? from an elevator. She collapsed to the floor.?They raped me,? she said.Hotel employees called Portland police, who found the woman screaming and crying in the lobby, according to the memo. Rees also wrote that the woman appeared extremely intoxicated to the officers and ?seemed to have difficulty remaining conscious.?Police took her to Oregon Health & Science University Hospital, where she was examined. She said she thought the players had drugged her. Three of them assaulted her, she said ? two of them by forcing her to have sex with them.A hotel employee later found her clothes in a hallway on the fourth floor, where the players had rooms, according to the memo.In the meantime, police separated the players, who the memo described as cooperative and giving consistent versions of events.Brown told police he had eight drinks at the strip club and went back to his room to play video games after returning to the hotel.Williams said he was initially in the room with the woman, Brewer and Milsap, but left not long afterward.?Williams stated he observed [the woman]becoming upset and crying, stating she had been raped three times before and did not want to be raped again,? according to the memo. ?Williams said [she] was crying even though no one had touched her.?Brewer said the woman got naked and flopped on his bed. He built a divider with blankets and pillows, telling her she could sleep on the bed or the floor if she wanted to stay.?Brewer stated he decided not to have sexual intercourse with [her] because she was too drunk and acting strangely,? according to the memo.The players agreed among them that no one would have sex with her, according to the memo, in part because of her saying she had been raped in the past.Milsap left the room after she started crying and talking about rape, according to the memo.?Absent an admission from one of the suspects, it appears unlikely that identity will ever be established,? Rees wrote. ?That fact alone bars prosecution of this case, because identity must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.?</div>Wow! That's pretty big news. Hard to tell whether they did it or not, though. This woman seems pretty crazy...
