‘I wasn’t scorned about it’
At the end of the night, Brown suggests, E.M. felt “scorned” because the men didn’t say anything nice to her, walk her out of the room or call her a cab.
She says that’s not true and she didn’t feel scorned, but she did feel disrespected.
“I’d never had an encounter that ends in that way,” she testifies. “I wasn’t scorned about it. I felt disrespected the whole night, so I’m not sure why I thought the end would be any different.”
After she left the room, E.M. realized she’d forgotten a ring, so she went back. It’s a recollection she brought up earlier in the trial.
Brown says she told Formenton it was her grandmother’s ring and it had sentimental value, but E.M. says that’s not true — it was just a ring from the ball.