Rape charge dropped against W&J student
Prosecutors dropped charges of rape and sexual assault against a Washington & Jefferson College student who will serve probation on a lesser charge.
Marlon Brown, 21, of Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of simple assault and was sentenced by Washington County Judge Gary Gilman to 18 months of probation.
Prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges of rape of an unconscious victim and sexual assault. Attorney Nicole Nino, who represented Brown, said that in entering the plea “my client, under no circumstances, took responsibility for any sort of sexual misconduct on his part.”
Washington city police filed charges against Brown in January 2014 in connection with an incident earlier that month which the alleged victim described as occurring during a night of drinking.
The woman told police she recalled being in Brown’s room on Chestnut Street and later drifting in and out of consciousness while he had sex with her.