Former NFL star Dana Stubblefield says rape charges are false
Former San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders defensive star Dana Stubblefield vigorously denied Tuesday charges that he raped a developmentally disabled woman after she went to his Morgan Hill home to interview for a babysitting job last year.
Stubblefield’s lawyers said that the charges came after a consensual sexual encounter and that the woman was motivated by money.
The alleged rape happened April 9, 2015, one day after Stubblefield contacted the woman through a nanny networking website seeking a sitter for his children, according to a probable cause affidavit from Morgan Hill police Detective Sheena Pevehouse.
“Mr. Stubblefield has been unfairly targeted in his case by both the alleged victim and the district attorney’s office because of his celebrity and wealth,” said his lawyer Ken Rosenfeld.
Another one of Stubblefield’s attorneys questioned whether the woman is disabled, saying she had the mental capacity to create a profile on the nanny website and file complex court documents.
Stubblefield, a defensive tackle, was drafted by the 49ers in 1993 and was named to the NFL All-Pro team from 1994 through 1997.
In his final season, the NFL fined Stubblefield and three other Raiders for testing positive for steroids.
In 2009, a federal judge fined him $5,000 and placed him on two years’ probation for lying to an Internal Revenue Service agent about his steroid use.