Cross-Examination Ends for Accuser of Tyson : Trial: Boxer’s attorney presses previous assertion that the woman sought long-term relationship.

Mike Tyson’s chief defense lawyer, Vincent Fuller, finished his cross-examination Friday of the 18-year-old Rhode Island woman who has brought rape charges against the former heavyweight boxing champion.

And as was the case when she was first called to the stand Thursday, she calmly--even glibly at times--answered Fuller’s direct questions.

Tyson, who is charged with four rape-related counts, faces a maximum of 63 years in prison if found guilty on all four. The trial, being heard by an eight-man, four-woman jury, enters its sixth day today.

Questioning the woman about her Thursday testimony, that Tyson had kissed her on the lips when he picked her up in his limousine early in the morning of July 19, Fuller asked:

“Were you not taken aback that Mr. Tyson, a perfect stranger, would kiss you on the lips?

“Did that not send a signal to you? You were not alarmed that a man you didn’t even know would kiss you on the lips? Did you not consider the ramifications of entering his bedroom?”

The 5-foot-4, 108-pound woman alleges that the 220-pound Tyson took her to his room at the Canterbury Hotel in Indianapolis, lured her to his room and raped her between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Tyson maintains that she consented to sexual intercourse.

Fuller pressed his previous assertion that the woman had sought a long-term relationship with Tyson, and that she had designs on his wealth. She denied it, saying: “I would never see him again, how could I?”

She also said at one point that Tyson “begged” her to join him during a phone call to her room at the Omni Hotel at 1:36 a.m.

“He kept saying: ‘Can you come out? I just want to talk to you.’ He was begging. So I went.”

Fuller followed: “On prior occasions, have you received phone calls from young men who asked you out at at 1:40 a.m.?”

She said she had not.

The woman had said Thursday that she used the bathroom in Tyson’s room immediately after he had told her: “You’re turning me on,” and immediately before the alleged attack.

Of that testimony, Fuller said: “Is it not true that after Mr. Tyson uttered a sexually explicit remark to you, you did not walk straight out of his bedroom and go toward the parlor (and the front door) but instead went into his bathroom?”

She said that was true.

There is no indication whether Tyson will testify. Fuller, in his opening statement Wednesday, used phrases such as “Mr. Tyson will tell you” and “Mr. Tyson will say.”

But speculation is that because Tyson was considered ineffective in a grand jury appearance here in September, Fuller will not call him to the stand.

And in a criminal trial, the prosecution can’t call the accused to the stand.

After Fuller had finished cross-examination Friday, prosecutors Greg Garrison and Barbara Trathen called Canterbury Hotel personnel to testify about the movements of Tyson and his bodyguard, Dale Edwards, who occupied a suite next to Tyson’s.

The prosecution is trying to establish that Tyson, immediately after the alleged assault, was in a hurry to leave Indianapolis. The defense contends that Tyson had planned to leave early on the morning of July 19. The accuser, in fact, testified that Tyson had told her in his 1:36 a.m. phone call that he couldn’t see her later that day because he was leaving.

The woman says her encounter with Tyson has caused her to have recurring nightmares.

“I slept with my mom when I got home (last summer), because of the nightmares,” she told the jury. “I still have nightmares.”

The woman was a contestant in the Miss Black America pageant in Indianapolis.

Tyson sat impassively Friday, as he has throughout the trial, showing little emotion.