If convicted, Burton faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Burton will remain in the Harris County Jail without bail on one charge of sexual assault, a second-degree felony.
Robert Scott, Burton's court-appointed attorney, said he is still investigating the allegations. The woman told police she had no memory of the cab ride, sexual activity or Burton, and said she never consented to the sex. In the morning he left for work, leaving the woman in his bed. There, Burton had sex with the woman, he admitted to police. When he took her to the next house, a man who answered the door said she did not live there.īurton told police that he and the woman were unable to determine where she lived, so she asked Burton to let her rest at his home, which he did.
The woman was sick and vomiting, so the other passenger found the woman's ID, found her address and left her with Burton, who he asked to take her home.īurton told police that when he took the woman to the address on her ID, she told him she no longer lived there and that she'd recently moved around the block. A man in the car with the woman, with Burton driving, told authorities that he was on his way back to the Crown Plaza hotel where he and another friend were staying.