Man puts 'crazy' case behind him; rape charges dropped after he spent 7 months in jail

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'Bradshaw met the woman at Hair of the Dog, where he was working as a server, in late July. The Russian-sounding woman was flirtatious, he said. When his shift ended at 5 p.m., they shot a few games of pool at The Honest Pint and she had one drink.

Two days later, the woman told police that Bradshaw took her back to his apartment the night they met, pretended to be a Marine and brutally raped her.

He says that's not what happened.

"I think she just has lots of issues and I just happened to be the scapegoat that was there," Bradshaw said.

Nonetheless, Bradshaw was arrested and charged with rape, kidnapping, assault and aggravated assault.
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Bradshaw eventually made bond and got out of jail. But when word of his arrest got back to Idaho, where he was on parole from a grand theft conviction, he ended up back in the Hamilton County Jail for violating his parole.

It was February before DNA results in the rape case against him came back from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation crime lab.

"The tests can definitely keep them in longer than what we would think would be fair, especially given the results," said Joy Radice, a defense attorney and associate professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville's College of Law.

At the March 2 hearing, Assistant District Attorney General Leslie Longshore said there was DNA in the rape kit, but it excluded Bradshaw.

"It did not corroborate the victim's story," Longshore said.
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"If everyone knew the whole story, they could make a movie out of it," he said. "It's something you couldn't write. It's too crazy."'