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In a case that drew national attention and prompted a death threat against the judge, a jury convicted a Colorado Springs man Monday of both counts in the gang rape of a 13-year-old girl, rejecting a defense based on inconsistencies in the girl's account. The guilty verdicts - which include a finding that the girl was subjected to force, as alleged - set up a potential life sentence for 21-year-old Jacolby Hasan Williams, whose attorneys argued that he wasn't in his apartment when the girl said she was pinned to a bed there and sexually assaulted by as many as five males. "At the end of the day, it's justice," said a man who identified himself as her oldest brother. As the verdicts were read, the girl's mother dabbed at Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette