Joshua Sills has been found not guilty of rape and kidnapping charges. The 25-year-old was barred from practice and games when charged months ago.
. She told investigators that late one night in December 2019, Sills drove her and her cousin home after a night of bar-hopping and exchanging Snapchat messages. She told her cousin she’d be inside in a minute, and the cousin went inside and went to bed.
At one point, Bing pulled up in the driveway. She told jurors she saw Sills’ truck parked there, but assumed he was inside the house. Sills’ lawyers cast doubt on the woman’s assertion that the football player forcefully held her down, suggesting in closing arguments that she did not want to be seen in the truck with Sills.
“He’s a guy that’s paid to fight and to struggle, he’s an offensive lineman for the Philadelphia Eagles, the team that lost the Super Bowl,” attorney Steven Dever told jurors.
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