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By her own admission, over the next few hours, the woman had about 10 drinks, including two double gins and soda and four shots.

At some point, the defendant joined the group at another bar nearby; his girlfriend also worked at the restaurant.

He and his girlfriend invited the complainant and her co-worker to continue the party at his downtown apartment.

The complainant first helped her friend walk her dog and then when the friend begged off, she went to the apartment alone.

The defendant and his girlfriend and another male friend were there, doing lines of cocaine almost as soon as the woman arrived.

She herself, she testified, did “around four lines of cocaine.”

She found that cocaine “can kind of sober you up a little bit,” she said, and it did. By about 7 a.m. when she made her way to the bathroom, she guessed she was only about “a four out of 10” on the intoxication scale.

It was near the bathroom that the defendant offered her “some G.” She knew it, she said, as “a date-rape drug” — she had taken it once before, with a friend, at the Pride parade in 2011 — and found it had made her “a little bit sleepy.” Since she had to work at 10 that morning at a fitness club, her second job, “I figured it was a good way to get some rest.”

I felt messed up about it — confused, ashamed, upset

The defendant warned her: “Be careful; it’s a bit strong.”

But, the woman said, “I took the shot.”

When she came out of the bathroom, the defendant offered to give her a tour of the apartment; his girlfriend and the other man were still out on the balcony.