Raiders’ Wallace to Get New Trial on Damages for Alleged Assault

DALLAS — Raider linebacker Aaron Wallace, who was ordered to pay $225,000 to a woman who claimed he sexually assaulted her, will get a new trial.

State District Judge Eric Moye ordered the new trial Thursday after attorneys for the player submitted sworn statements from jurors who said they had considered some results from a lie-detector test, which had been ruled inadmissible.

The civil verdict was awarded after a February trial, during which the woman testified she had passed a Polygraph. Moye instructed the jurors to ignore the testimony.

However, jurors interviewed later said the lie-detector results were discussed.

The judge had rejected the same request in March and entered a judgment in the woman’s favor, reducing the damages to $18,250.

The 26-year-old woman accused Wallace, a former Texas A&M; standout, of raping her while he was in Dallas in February of 1990 preparing to play in the Cotton Bowl.

No criminal complaint was filed against Wallace, she said.