CHATTANOOGA – A woman who works at Victoria’s Secret. A gospel singer who works in a funeral home. A woman whose sister was sexually assaulted when she was young. A machinist who was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault. A retiree whose wife is a fingerprint examiner. A candy maker.
Those are six of the 14 people who will hear the trial of Cory Batey next week in Nashville. The jury was chosen in Chattanooga, a process that took about nine hours over two days and finished about 11 a.m. Thursday.
Batey is accused of five counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery. He and three other former Vanderbilt University football players have been charged in the assault of an unconscious female student in a dorm in June 2013. Prosecutors say Batey carried out five of those crimes and is responsible for the other two because he aided the others.
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