Howard jury hears police interview with Columbia rape suspect

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A Howard jury faces the “he said, she said” dilemma in determining whether a Columbia teen attacked and raped a young woman behind the Columbia Association tennis court in October 2007.

Dedrick Wilkerson, 18, could face up to life in prison if convicted of first-degree rape, sex offense and assault charges in connection with the alleged attack on a 23-year-old woman that Wilkerson met about 9 p.m. Oct. 18 at a Columbia Bank ATM machine in the Wilde Lake Village Shopping Center.

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