PITTSBURGH (AP) - Jurors resume deliberations Wednesday in the trial of a former Pittsburgh restaurant owner charged with breaking into a woman’s home and sexually assaulting her.
Allegheny County prosecutors allege that 47-year-old Adnan Pehlivan stalked the woman and her friends from a bar to their home, then broke in and sexually assaulted her.
Prosecutors allege that surveillance footage shows Pehlivan - owner of now-closed Istanbul Sofra -systematically stalking the women as they walked to their car.
Defense attorney Lee Rothman contended that the alleged victim simply regretted a “hookup” and wanted to save herself the embarrassment.
Jurors deliberated from about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday until shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday, asking in mid-afternoon to hear the 911 call again and to see surveillance footage of the women entering and leaving the bar.
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