Date Set for Jason Lee Rape Trial Jury Selection

Jason Lee, right, with a member of his legal team, outside of State Supreme Court in Riverside on Friday. Mr. Lee is expected to stand trial in on 2013 rape allegations beginning in April.

Feb. 13, 2015

T.E. McMorrow

Jury selection in the trial of Jason Lee, a former Goldman-Sachs managing director who police said raped a 20-year-old Irish woman in East Hampton during the early morning hours of Aug. 20, 2013, is expected to begin April 6 in the Riverside courtroom of New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kahn.

"We are going to trial. And we are looking forward to it," Andrew Lankler, one of Mr. Lee's attorneys, said outside of the courtroom on Friday, after a final pre-trial conference with prosecutors and Justice Kahn.

Kerriann Kelly, the bureau chief of the Suffolk District Attorney's Major Crimes Bureau, said the alleged victim, known only by the initials, D.D., was going to travel from Ireland for the trial.

Mr. Lee was said to have raped the woman during a gathering at a rented house following a celebration of his 37th birthday at Georgica restaurant in East Hampton. He has denied the allegation.

Besides rape in the first degree, which carries a mandatory sentence of five years in prison, Mr. Lee is also fighting two misdemeanor charges, assault and sexual misconduct.