The fate of three men accused of raping a 19-year-old Flagstaff woman this spring in the woods near Doney Park is now in the hands of a Coconino County jury.

Prosecutors in the trial against David T. Huskon, 40, Michael Reed Jr., 31, and Aaron C. Charley, 37, all of Cameron on the Navajo Nation, questioned their last witness Thursday. The defense then called one defendant, Charley, before resting.

Judge Fred Newton will formally hand the case over to the jury for deliberations this morning.

In his testimony, Charley, a laborer, said he had sex with the accuser in his car, parked in the woods off Silver Saddle Road. He said she had made advances toward him and the sex was consensual.

Under cross-examination, deputy county attorney Dennis Harrison picked at inconsistencies between Charley’s interview with a sheriff’s department detective and his testimony on the stand, characterizing much of his police interview as untruthful.

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