>> brandon vandenberg. >> the horrific laughing from brandon vanderburg and just the awful degradingrandon's not laughing anymore. he's watching stoically as his childhood best friends from california testify against him about trying to cover up the cell phone video. joey quinzio saying he was pressured to lie to police. >> i was being coerced by mr. vandenburg and his attorney. >> reporter: and miles finley saying brandon destroyed evidence. >> did he tell you what happened to your cell phone? >> yes. >> what did he say after? >> he said he smashed it and threw it in the lake. >> reporter: during cross-examination brandon's defense attorney seized on some of miles' text messages during the assault. "dog kick that -- out or gang bang her. don't let her wake up." >> you were giving him direction that night telling him what to do, weren't you, mr. finley? don't look at him. look up here at me. why are you looking over there? i'm over here. who are you looking at? >> sir, could you please calm down, because i'm not yelling at you. >> reporter: eventually he does calm down and attempts t

the critical thing, i think, are going to be these videotapes that brandon vandenberg one of the defendants allegedly took with his cell phone. not only videos but photos. if those depict the kids raping this young girl, that's it game over. >> reporter: reporter roxanne jones has covered many rape cases. >> what similarity dozen you see with the cases you've covered? >> the cases are all similar. the only thing that's changed is technology. it's the technology that's now brought us almost in the room as these events happen. >> reporter: she's also a mother with a son in college. she recently wrote a controversial op ed about the advice she's given her son. >> in fact now an app has come out that you can do exactly this. it's not perfect. but get a text that says -- that shows what the mood was before you guys had sex. >> reporter: oenchts come on. >> jimmy: >> everyone laughs at this but use technology to describe or get an acknowledgement, you're coming to the room to hook up and have second. text the next day, it was great, i'd love to see you again. or never want to see you again. >> re

one of the suspects named brandon vandenberg, a man she had been dating, was there.he testified he gave her a blue drink that she only sipped. that was after three other drinks but after that blue drink, she said that was the last thing she remembered until waking up in a strange room several hours later. as is cnn policy we're going to keep her unidentified but we have this sound from the alleged victim's testimony that came yesterday saying that vandenberg filled her in on a memory lapse this way. >> he told me that i had gotten sick in his room and he had to clean it up and that it was horrible and that he had to spend the whole night taking care of me and that it was horrible. i apologized. i was embarrassed. >> but what really happened to that young woman is beyond a nightmare. instead she was carried unconscious into a university dorm room and she was abused in unspeakable ways. the reason we know this is because many of the revolting acts were actually captured on three of the suspects' cell phones. i'm going to go to hln legal analyst joey jackson and i want

. >> cory beatty and brandon vandenberg, two former vanderbilt football players are behind bars convicted on all counts of aggravated rape and sexual battery against a former neuroscience student and dance team member in 2013. the prosecution argued the former players and two others bought the unconscious victim to vandenberg's room after a night of drinking. the woman testifying in court last week. we distorted her voice. >> i remember waking up. >> i want to remind other victims of sexual violence you are not alone. you are not to blame. >> across the country, santa clara's attorney general taking aim at 19-year-old brock turner a stanford freshman and member of the swimming team. turner charged with five felony counts of raping a drunk, unconscious woman. the ohio native has withdrawn from the school and is now banned from stepping foot on stanford's campus. >> seals to be a safe place. >> michelle dawber is a stanford law professor who revised the policy on sexual assaults. she says unlike witnesses in other rapes, the witnesses realized the young woman needed help and took action. >>

a nashville jury just a few hours to convict former vanderbilt university football players brandon vandenberg and cory beatty. the two were each found guilty of aggravated rape and sexual battery. prosecutors say they laughed and took photos as a group of men raped and defiled a female neuroscience student in june of 2013. >> did you consent to any of the acts that were done to you? >> absolutely not. >> did you consent that any photographs or videos being taken of you? >> shootly not. >> reporter: prosecutors say vanderberg brought his 21-year- olden down shus girlfriend the night of one witness testified he even flew to california to destroy video evidence on his cell phone. >> he said he smashed it and threw it in the lake. >> reporter: defense attorneys tried to deflect the blame citing a college culture of excessive drinking and promiscuity. >> i think if you look at these boys' hearts, they're good boys. >> reporter: prosecutors read a statement from the victim. >> i'm thankful that the criminal justice system will hold the defendants responsible for their violent crimes. >> reporter: t

former players brandon banks and jaborian mckenzie, have also been charged and will be tried at a later date. the alleged assault took place on june 23, 2013. security cameras show vandenberg players carrying an unconscious woman out of his car and into a dormitory elevator. they take compromising photos of her and then drag her into his room. >> reporter: the university stumbled across the footage while investigating a separate incident of vandalism. school officials questioned the players and contacted police who say vandenberg was sending videos to friends in real time and encouraging the assault. the alleged victim, a 21-year-old neuroscience student who says she was dating vandenberg at the time testified she had no memory of the events. she said she only found out what happened when police showed her videos of the attack. >> reporter: defense attorneys have blamed alcohol and a campus culture where anything goes. several students encountered the woman during the course of the night, but failed to step in or report the incident to the university or police. all four men chargeed in the incident have pleaded not guilty. juliana goldman, cbs news washington. >> axelrod: