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Ex-Vanderbilt players convicted in rape might get new trial

JUN 16, 2015 12:42a ET

JUN 16, 2015 12:42a ET

In a strange turn of events, two former Vanderbilt football players who were convicted in January on multiple counts of rape and sexual battery might get a new trial.

Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey, both 21, are currently jailed due to their convictions in a case that involved a woman being sexually assaulted while unconscious during June 2013.

According to the Associated Press, a judge will rule next Tuesday on whether to declare a mistrial in the initial proceedings after it became known that one of the jurors may have withheld relevant information during jury questioning.