Jury weighing fate of man accused of raping jogger

Read previous coverage of the trial: Victim calmly describes attack in Finley Stadium rape trial.

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The case against Devontavious Bryant, accused of raping a jogger in 2012, is in the hands of the jury.

During the third and final day of Bryant's rape trial, the 20-year-old repeatedly said on the stand that he wasn't guilty.

"No sir," Bryant told his attorney. "I didn't rape that woman."

Bryant held that line under Assistant District Attorney General Cameron Williams' cross-examination too.

Bryant said he and co-defendant Deacon Williams, who he called his "charge partner," went together to City Cafe around 4:30 a.m. on the morning of Oct. 12. They got fries and soda. They finished, and when they left, Bryant gave back a yellow jacket and afro wig he had borrowed from Deacon Williams at the beginning of the night.

That jacket and wig were crucial to the state's case because the victim remembered a man in a yellow jacket choking her from behind and later raping her.

City Cafe video shows Bryant in those clothes before the attack. About an hour later, video taken outside the Chattanooga Convention center shows two young black man on bikes, one wearing a yellow jacket and afro wig, following behind the woman.

Bryant said he gave the bike he borrowed from Deacon Williams back too. He said the man on the second video was not him. After eating, he went to a friend's house and fell asleep.

But prosecutor Cameron Williams said the woman's testimony Wednesday left no room for interpretation.

"She left no doubt," he said. "She left no doubt that this man raped her."

Stay with the Times Free Press for more details as they develop.

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