No criminal charges for Zach Randolph

Memo details why district attorney's office did not pursue case against Trail Blazer forward in connection with alleged assault

LocalNewsDaily.com, Sep 20, 2006, Updated Oct 30, 2009

The Multnomah County District Attorney's office has declined to press charges against Trail Blazer forward Zach Randolph in connection with an alleged sexual assault of a woman Aug. 11 at the Hotel Vintage Plaza in downtown Portland.

District Attorney Michael D. Schrunk released a memo from his office Wednesday that said the case was brought to police when the woman told the staff at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center on Aug. 14 that she had been sexually assaulted by Randolph three days earlier.

But after more than a month of investigation, the memo said, "there is an insufficent basis to prove" that the woman had been been forcibly assaulted without her consent and that there were no independent witnesses who could corroborate what happened between the four people in the hotel room during the incident.

The memo said the police interviewed three of the four people involved; Randolph, through his attorney, Stephen Houze, refused to be interviewed.

According to the district attorney's office, the investigation showed that Randolph and a friend asked the alleged victim and another woman, who is Randolph's occasional sex partner, to perform a live sex show for them for $500. The people involved differed on whether the show was supposed to include actual sex between the two women but those interviewed agreed it only was simulated sex. The alleged victim, who had never met Randolph before, said she agreed to do the performance because she "needed the money."

After the show, according to the memo, Randolph was unhappy with the performance and refused to pay the alleged victim.

The woman said she did have consensual sex with Randolph's friend and then fell asleep "or passed out," the memo said, because she was extremely intoxicated. The memo said she woke up when Randolph started having sex with her, although she shook her head no. She did not describe any acts of force or threats by Randolph.

According to the memo, the other woman said she did not see what went on between the alleged victim, Randolph and his friend because she was ill from drinking and in the bathroom for two and a half hours.

The district attorney's office said the alleged victim sent a text message to the other woman on Aug. 13 demanding $10,000 from Randolph, saying she would take the matter "through lawyers" if she did not receive the money.

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