A Superior Court judge scheduled a hearing on a series of motions filed by former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield, who is accused of raping a disabled woman at his Morgan Hill home.
Stubblefield appeared at South County Courthouse in Morgan Hill June 10. After meeting behind closed doors with Stubblefield’s attorneys and prosecutors, Judge Jacqueline Duong set a hearing for June 24 on Stubblefield’s motion to compel Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s office to recuse itself from the case.
At the June 24 hearing, the judge will also hear a defense motion to reconsider a protective order that currently prohibits Stubblefield from contacting his alleged victim. Stubblefield filed that motion June 10, just before the latest hearing.
Stubblefield, 45, is charged with five felony counts related to the alleged rape. He is accused of assaulting the woman, 31 at the time, on April 9, 2015. Stubblefield has denied the allegations.
Investigators said Stubblefield asked the woman to come to his home to interview for a babysitter job. He initially contacted the woman through the website sittercity.com, and asked her to visit his home the next day for a job interview.
After a brief interview, the woman left, according to authorities. But Stubblefield called her back and offered to pay for her time. When she returned, he carried the woman to a room, raped her, forced her to perform oral sex and then gave her $80, according to police reports.
The woman drove straight to the Morgan Hill police station from Stubblefield’s home to report the incident, according to authorities.
After a year-long investigation, Morgan Hill police arrested Stubblefield May 2.
In a statement after he made bail May 3, Stubblefield denied all the charges against him. He said he had consensual sex with the woman he is accused of raping.
On June 24, the court will also hear a motion filed by Stubblefield seeking the results of a background check performed by the agency that listed his alleged victim as a babysitter for hire.
Stubblefield’s attorney Gary Winuk said after the hearing that the defendant wants the California Attorney General’s Office to replace Rosen’s office as the prosecuting agency in the case in order to gain a better chance for a fair trial. He criticized the DA’s office for sending press releases to the media following Stubblefield’s arrest, claiming that he “unconscionably assaulted” the woman.
Stubblefield is charged with one count each of rape by force, violence, duress, menace or fear; rape of a victim incapable of giving consent; oral copulation by force, violence, duress, menace or fear; oral copulation with a person incapable of giving legal consent; and false imprisonment.
