Jeffries was accused of raping a 21-year-old woman of a Northside address in Belize City on the morning of March 13, 2004 ? after partying for much of the previous night.

Reports are that Jeffries and the young lady met for the first time the night of March 12, and along with four other persons – two of Jeffries? close friends and the victim?s sister and another friend made their way to a dance in Hattieville in Jeffries? vehicle.

After leaving the dance, the group apparently headed to MJ?s Nightclub on Newtown Barracks, but it was closed. Reports are that the group then headed to Raul?s Rose Garden, but that club was also closed.

There are conflicting reports as to what happened after that, with one version being that the group went to Gulf Hotel on the Northern Highway only to find that only one room was available. And so the group then went to Diamond Motel, further up the Northern Highway – where they found the requisite three rooms.

The other version, the victim?s version, is that they never went to Gulf Hotel, but straight to Diamond Motel, where the victim said that she was going to wait outside in the car for the rest of the group, but was convinced by her sister that it was better she waited in a room with Jeffries since the others would have been occupied.

The victim said she agreed to go into Room #8 because she believed that, ?C.J. is a police officer: he will not do me anything.?

The trial lasted three weeks, and after listening to a total of 16 witnesses, from both the prosecution and defense, the jurors listened to four hours and 20 minutes of summation from defense attorney, B.Q. Pitts. By comparison, prosecutor Cheryl Lynn Branker Taitt spent 30 minutes wrapping up.

In her closing remarks, the prosecutor asked the jurors to remember that the victim had been raped and that she had told the court that it was the accused, Crispin Jeffries, Jr., who had raped her, that it was not a consensual act, that she was dragged to the bed and raped.

The prosecutor concluded by saying that the jurors should believe the victim for several reasons ? that the victim had no motive to fabricate the story she had given in court. Why would she accuse someone like Jeffries, who works as a DJ part-time, lives in an average home and is not an ostentatious person, asked the prosecutor.

The victim did not know the accused before the incident; she was not caught by a jealous lover; there was no animosity, and the report of rape was not for financial gain, said the prosecutor.

The prosecutor and the victim were convincing to the jury of seven men and two women, at least more than the defense attorney, who has not indicated whether he will appeal the verdict.

Pitts said, ?Remember, on the brief of the accused there was hair detected, but the forensic analysis was unable to determine whose hair they were; no semen or blood was detected on the accused?s beige long pants.

?Hair was found on the long pants, but the forensic analysis also could not say whose hair it was. No blood or hair was detected on the tights, although seminal fluid was detected on the right leg of the tights, but the expert could not say whose semen it was either…? said Pitts.

All the findings were inconclusive because there was no confirmation that the tissue material was that of the accused. A DNA test was needed to determine these findings, concluded B.Q. Pitts.

For his part, Jeffries told the court under oath that he did not even have sex with the victim.

He said that once in the room he and the victim tickled each other and ?played rough.? And although he had pulled down the young lady?s tights to her ankles, he never had intercourse with her.

Jeffries said that the playing became so rough that she scratched him on the neck. After the playing had ceased, Jefferies said that both of them lay side by side on the bed, breathing heavily from the playing.

He then recalled that he heard her whisper something, but it was unclear to him. She repeated it a second time, but it was still unclear, he recalled.

He said he then asked her what she had said, and the young lady told him that ?Yuh could call dis rape.?

The young lady, though, had a different version of what happened.

She said that once in the room Jeffries said he was going to sleep, and she told him that she was going to go to the room that her friend was in. But as she was about to turn the door knob, the accused, she claimed, grabbed the back of her blouse, dragged her to the bed, held her hands over her head and began to remove her pants.

The victim said that she tried to fight him off, but he used his legs to pin her down. At this point, she said, she screamed and yelled for help, and then began kicking him. He released her hand for a while to hold down her feet and she choked him around the neck.

According to the victim, he tried to pull away, but she managed to scratch him on his neck.

She tried to escape a second time, but he dragged her to the bed again. She said that she pleaded for him not to rape her because she was menstruating; but, according to her, he said he did not care, and raped her.

The policeman?s victim said that after the incident she managed to escape and run towards her friend?s room, across from the room that she was in with the accused. She knocked on the door and sat outside the room, screaming, traumatized by what had just happened.

The jurors believed the victim?s version, and tonight Crispin Jefferies, Jr., the son of Assistant Police Commissioner, Crispin Jefferies, Sr., is at the Hattieville Prison awaiting sentence. He faces a minimum sentence of eight years imprisonment, and a maximum of life imprisonment. Sentencing is set for October 14.