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Alleged "BYU Groper" Nathan Fletcher pleaded not guilty Thursday to two counts of class A misdemeanor sexual battery and asked for a jury trial.
No new court dates were immediately set.
During a preliminary hearing last month in Provo's 4th District Court, Fletcher, 23, was identified as the jogger who allegedly assaulted two of 16 women who reported attacks on and near campus earlier this year.
Several of Fletcher's former track teammates at Brigham Young University testified that they recognized his gait and his build in surveillance footage police showed to them.
Fletcher's teammates testified that they each identified Fletcher independently as they saw the gait of a jogger filmed in BYU's Smith Fieldhouse on March 15, close to the time a victim said a jogger grabbed her breast.