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A February trial has been set for a former Utah State University fraternity member accused of sexually assaulting two women.
Jason Brian Relopez, 27, is charged in 1st District Court with one count each of aggravated sexual assault and rape, both first-degree felonies.
The four-day trial is set to begin Feb. 8 before Judge Brian Cannell.
During an August preliminary hearing, a 19-year-old Utah State University student testified that during a July 12 night of drinking at the Sigma Chi fraternity house she and Relopez started making out.
But she became terrified, she testified, when Relopez slapped her across the face and then raped her five to six times throughout the night.
She said she never explicitly told him "No," but said she did not give consent to the assault.
She went to police a week later.
The other alleged victim, a 20-year-old USU student, testified she was raped by Relopez inside her Cache Valley home as the two were studying together in October 2014.
She said the two began making out. But when Relopez asked her if she "wanted to go all the way," the woman testified that she said, "No."
Relopez, however, pinned her arms and legs down and raped her, she said, ignoring her pleas to stop.
That woman said she didn't go to the police about the encounter until nearly a year later, when she heard through a Greek life adviser that Relopez had been accused of raping the 19-year-old woman.