The verdict came in the second day of Brian K. Ussery’s trial in Douglas County District Court in Lawrence.

He and three other men were charged last summer with raping the girl at her home, after she drank shots of hard liquor.

Before the case went to the jury, prosecutor Shelley Diehl pointed out that Ussery had admitted during an interview with Lawrence police that he had had sex with the girl, who now is 14.

“Why would Brian Ussery tell the detectives that he had sex with (the girl), if it didn’t occur?” Diehl asked during closing arguments.

But Ussery’s defense attorney, Michael Clarke of Olathe, countered by saying that the girl had been inconsistent in testimony she gave on Monday and that she had had too much to drink to know, with certainty, what had occurred.

“There’s no evidence that his alleged statements (to police) were audio-recorded or video-recorded,” Clarke added.

On Oct. 7, a jury found co-defendant William N. Haney, 19, Lawrence, guilty of rape. He’s scheduled to be sentenced today. Another defendant, 18-year-old Dana S. Jackson of Lawrence, reached a plea agreement in juvenile court and was sentenced to 30 months at a juvenile detention center.

The fourth defendant, a 27-year-old Lawrence man, was sent to Larned State Security Hospital in September for a competency evaluation.

— Eric Weslander, reporter with the Lawrence Journal-World, contributed to this story.