ColoradoAg03

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He told his parents, who told him the only part that was his fault was getting that drunk. He also called his girlfriend, and they broke up because, in his words, he had cheated.

He said he believed his girlfriend’s new boyfriend, her ex before him, was the one who told everyone about what had happened, but he said he could not be sure.

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The jury was also shown text messages from the victim’s phone, verified by the same technical forensic investigator the state called before that included an exchange with the girlfriend’s new boyfriend. In those messages, the new boyfriend wrote that he knew everything, using an expletive and a racial slur.

He also wrote: “Couldn’t tap that (the victim’s ex girlfriend) so you got to tap the mayor right?” The victim replied: “Lowkey kind of disrespectful but I tapped that too.”

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