{"id":849903,"date":"2026-04-02T19:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849903\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:59:17","slug":"lawyers-withdraw-from-parker-kingston-case-as-hearing-is-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849903\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers withdraw from Parker Kingston case as hearing is postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attorneys for Parker Kingston, the former Brigham Young University football player accused of raping<\/a> a 20-year-old woman, withdrew from representing Kingston in a filing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Kingston is still represented by defense attorney Cara Tangaro.<\/p>\n

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Kingston was expected in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah, on Thursday for a preliminary hearing, which was delayed until April 23.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old former wide receiver for BYU was formally charged with one count of felony rape<\/a> and booked into jail last February, a year after the woman, identified as A.M., reported that he sexually assaulted her to officers at St. George Regional Hospital in February of last year.<\/p>\n

District Court Judge Jay Winward released Kingston on bail and ordered him to wear an ankle monitor for at least 60 days. Last month, Kingston\u2019s attorneys filed a memorandum<\/a> requesting that the judge remove the monitor, arguing that their client was not a flight risk.<\/p>\n

The alleged victim reported<\/a> that Kingston sexually assaulted her on Feb. 23, 2025, in St. George.<\/p>\n

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In the memorandum, A.M. apparently reached out to Kingston in March 2025 and \u201ctold him that he had taken advantage of her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kingston, per the court filing, responded, \u201cI didn\u2019t take advantage of you and I didn\u2019t think anything was casual you told me before and then you said yes and or else I never would\u2019ve done that because I just don\u2019t do that with anybody tbh. I wouldn\u2019t ever do that to someone unless they agreed and you did. I\u2019m sorry that I took that from you it was late and I shouldn\u2019t have even gone over there in the first place because I regret doing it too. I\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge Winward granted the attorneys\u2019 dismissal on Tuesday. The preliminary hearing was rescheduled for April 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attorneys for Parker Kingston, the former Brigham Young University football player accused of raping a 20-year-old woman, withdrew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[116366,9061,7,116364,71094,49,48,107787,71424,116365,4708],"class_list":{"0":"post-849903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-5th-district-court","9":"tag-brigham-young-university","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-isaac-hale","12":"tag-lavell-edwards-stadium","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-football","15":"tag-ncaa-football-game","16":"tag-parker-kingston","17":"tag-preliminary-hearing","18":"tag-ucf-knights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116336889914093413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}