Posted on 07/19/2005 7:47:19 PM PDT by SmithL
OAKLAND - A November trial has been scheduled for Tanda Rucker, the former Encinal High School basketball coach and East Bay prep star, who is charged with 26 felony counts of unlawful sex with four teenage girls.
Today, Judge Thomas Reardon set a Nov. 7 trial date for Rucker, 31, who is free on bail.
Rucker was a standout basketball player at Berkeley High School who later played two seasons at Stanford.
Prosecutors contend that Rucker met three of the teens when she was the basketball coach at the Alameda high school from 2000 until 2002.
Rucker was excused from court today and did not attend. She was charged in March 2004 after a lengthy investigation by Alameda police.
Prosecutors initially filed 18 felony counts based on accusations by two former Encinal students and a third girl from Richmond who reportedly met Rucker through high school basketball.
Prosecutors later added eight additional counts against Rucker, alleging that she engaged in an illegal sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl from Oakland during the summer of 1995 when Rucker was 22.
Funny, I thought the title read "Trial scheduled on sex CHANGES for Berkely star"
(What do you expect? It's Berkely.)
I believe her father is Weldon Rucker, a former city manager of Berkeley.
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