Overview
- The Suffolk Superior Court jury began deliberations Thursday and resumed Friday after asking the judge for clarification on legal language.
- Prosecutors showed DNA matches and phone videos they say depict unconscious women filmed and tied those materials to a pattern of posing as a rideshare driver to target intoxicated bar patrons.
- The defense argued the encounters were consensual and said the commonwealth failed to prove kidnapping or nonconsensual sex beyond a reasonable doubt.
- Alvin Campbell Jr. faces multiple counts including seven rape counts, kidnapping charges, indecent assault and battery, secret photography counts, and one assault with intent to rape, and he has been held without bail since his January 2020 arrest.
- The case has drawn public attention because Campbell is the older brother of Attorney General Andrea Campbell and because jurors’ verdict will decide both criminal accountability for the alleged victims and whether prosecutors’ forensic and video evidence meet the legal standard of proof.