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A man was found guilty of sexually assaulting a bridesmaid after a Pennsylvania jury saw video of him pulling the woman into a locker room just two days before his 2019 wedding.
Daniel Carney, 30, was found guilty on four sexual assault charges on Thursday after a 29-year-old bridesmaid accused him of forcing himself on her while she was unconscious at a pre-wedding celebration in Delaware on August 30, 2019.
Although his wife, Nicole Norris, 30, defended him on Wednesday, claiming the bridesmaid was 'conscious' during the incident, prosecutors presented a video on Thursday showing the moment he pulled the victim into the men's shower room at the Shawnee Inn, in Smithfield Township, WFMZ reported
Carney faces up to 10 years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender following his sentencing in July.
His attorney said he would be filling an appeal, TMZ reported.
Daniel Carney, 30, was carried out of Monroe County Court on Thursday after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting charges a bridesmaid at a pre-wedding celebration in 2019
Nicole Norris, 30, defended her husband (pictured here in the profile picture for their wedding registry) in court on Wednesday. Carney, who will file an appeal, faces up to 10 years in prison
Carney will have to register as a sex offender following his sentencing in July
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Monroe County Assistant District Attorney Christy Schlottman said the victims was happy after hearing the guilty verdict.
'She's overwhelmed with emotion, and I think she's pleased with the verdict as well,' Schlottman told WFMZ.
The verdict comes two days after Norris testified that the bridesmaids was 'conscious and aware' of what she was doing with her then-fiancée when she caught the two of them in the shower.
The prosecutors, though, say Norris was not there the entire time the two of them were in the shower of the men's locker room at the Shawnee Inn in Smithfield Township, so she could not have fully known what had happened.
The bridesmaid, an unnamed then-29-year-old woman from Oregon, claimed in the aftermath that, although she did not remember exactly what had happened, she had 'woken up' twice during the encounter.
She said she remembers Carney grabbing and biting her, and later that her bikini bottoms were off and Carney was on top of her.
Carney claims that the encounter was 'consensual' and insists that the bridesmaid actually initiated it.
Nicole claimed in court that the bridesmaid, who has not been named, was conscious and aware of what she was doing when Nicole found her and Daniel in the shower of a men's locker room on August 30, 2019
The entire saga unraveled in August 2019 during a
