CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – With former University of Virginia football player Jahmal Edrine set to be tried for counts of abduction and rape in November, the case’s evidence was once again at the heart of his latest pre-trial hearing on Tuesday in Albemarle Circuit Court.

In Edrine’s last court appearance in August, Judge Claude Worrell ordered Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Susan Baumgartner to submit a data dump from the complainant’s phone by that Wednesday at noon. When asked by Worrell if that order had been fulfilled, Baumgartner said the data was still being re-run, and she would hopefully have it available by this Wednesday.

Worrell ultimately placed a protective order on the data to ensure it will be sent from the Commonwealth to Edrine’s defense attorneys, Rhonda Quagliana and Lawrence Woodward, on Wednesday.

During the hearing in the Charlottesville Circuit Courthouse, Quagliana once again maintained her frustration over not yet receiving the phone data. She noted to Worrell that the defense has been persistent about holding the trial in November, and that the Commonwealth has had access to the phone since February. Edrine was arrested on Feb. 5, and his trial is currently set for Nov. 16-19.

This is not the first time the Commonwealth has been accused by the defense of not sending the phone data to them despite being ordered to do so by the court. The defense made the same argument during the Aug. 25 hearing, leading to the order from Worrell.

Shortly after that hearing, Quagliana told Cville Right Now the case has been “uncharacteristically difficult” due to the discovery disputes, as well as the defense’s concerns over if the Commonwealth is fully adhering to the Brady rule, which requires the prosecution to disclose exculpatory evidence to the criminal defense.

Like with the August hearing, much of Tuesday’s proceedings happened behind closed doors due to Virginia’s “Rape Shield Laws,” which restricts the admission of evidence or cross-examining of a complaining witness’ sexual history.

This time however, Quagliana asked the judge not to require the public to wait outside the courtroom, as she believed they could proceed without violating the “Rape Shield Laws” and that the public had a right to know about the disputes over the case’s evidence. But Worrell ultimately asked the public to leave without further explanation.

Edrine faces charges in relation to a Aug. 24 incident. He is accused of ignoring a woman’s request that he not ejaculate inside her after what began as a consensual sexual encounter.

He was released on a $25,000 bond in February on the conditions that he wear an ankle monitor, have no unrelated women in his apartment and have no contact with his accuser.

The evidence acquired from both the complainant’s phone as well as Edrine’s will likely play a major role in the case, as both Quagliana and Baumgartner pointed to different text messages sent between Edrine and his accuser when making their respective arguments during Feburary’s bond hearing.

Quagliana also played a phone conversation between the complainant and an ACPD detective during the bond hearing, in which the complainant could be heard telling the detective she did not believe the incident was rape. The detective asked to confirm and later said he did not believe the events she had told him constituted rape, either.

In her argument, Baumgartner pointed to text messages sent from the complainant to Edrine within 48 hours of their encounter. She read a few of these out loud, including one in which the complainant told Edrine, “I told you ‘No’ twice, three times actually,” in reference to his act of ejaculating in her, before she accused Edrine of not knowing what the word “No” meant.

Edrine played one season as a wide receiver at UVA after spending two years at Purdue and two at Florida Atlantic. He caught 46 passes for 564 yards and a touchdown for the Cavaliers in 2025.