A nursing student told women he met on an online dating site that he was a doctor, an astronaut or spy in a ruse to lure them out so he could drug and rape them, a prosecutor said Monday.Jeffrey J. Marsalis, the 34-year-old on-and-off student, met six of the seven women he is accused of raping on Match.com, prosecutor Joseph Khan said in opening statements of Marsalis' trial Monday.
"He seemed well-spoken. He seemed well-educated. He seemed intelligent. He seemed charming," the prosecutor said. "None of these people knew the real Jeffrey Marsalis."
Defense lawyer Kathleen E. Martin called the case one of regret, not rape. She said the women consented to sexual intercourse, even if they regretted it after learning they had been duped.
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