Crime & Courts

Jury selection begins for ex-UAF hockey player's sex assault trial

FAIRBANKS — Jury selection has begun for the trial of a former University of Alaska Fairbanks hockey player accused of sexually assaulting a woman on campus.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that Nolan Youngmun is charged with two counts stemming from an April 5 incident in on-campus housing.

Charging documents say Youngmun and another male visited a woman at a campus apartment at 3 a.m. Prosecutors say Youngmun entered another woman's room naked, woke her and sexually assaulted her despite her requests that he stop.

University of Alaska Fairbanks police later recorded a conversation between the woman and Youngmun in which he denied forcing the woman to do anything.

This is one of two sexual assault cases against Youngmun.

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