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Doc: Player was so drunk, he’d struggle to join a gang-rape

Corey Batey is seen during the Vanderbilt rape trial on Wednesday Jan. 21, 2015, in Nashville in Tenn. Brandon Vandenburg and Batey, along with two other former football players, are accused in the rape of an unconscious 21-year-old neuroscience major in a dorm room at the Nashville university. All four have pleaded not guilty. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, John Partipilo) Corey Batey is seen during the Vanderbilt rape trial on Wednesday Jan. 21, 2015, in Nashville in Tenn. Brandon Vandenburg and Batey, along with two other former football players, are accused in the rape of an unconscious 21-year-old neuroscience major in a dorm room at the Nashville university. All four have pleaded not guilty. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, John Partipilo)

By Associated Press January 23, 2015 1 min read

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A defense witness in the case of four former Vanderbilt football players charged with gang-raping a fellow student says one of them was so drunk that he would have struggled to form the intent to commit such a crime.

Neuropsychologist James Walker testified Friday that Cory Batey told him he had 14 to 22 alcoholic drinks before the players allegedly raped the unconscious co-ed.

All four former players have pleaded not guilty. Batey’s defense says his judgment was changed by a campus culture of binge drinking and promiscuous sex.

Walker testified that Batey told him he was “horrified” by his actions.