Another trial similar to the Haidl rape case plays out in Cook County…

Chicago- Sitting in a darkened courtroom, a Cook County jury intently watched 14 minutes of a homemade videotape that prosecutors say shows Christopher Robbins and two other men sexually assaulting an intoxicated, semi-conscious 16-year-old Naperville girl during a drunken party in 2002.

Most jurors gazed stone-faced at the TV set showing the video — which was turned away from spectators in the Bridgeview courtroom — as the men on-screen bantered, laughed and offered advice to each other. One man can be heard joking about “stage fright,” later a man can be heard urging another man, “Grab her legs.” Robbins and his lawyer stood near the jury and watched the tape, as well.

At least two female jurors appeared repulsed as they looked away several times while viewing the video, which is the key piece of evidence in the sexual assault charges filed against Robbins, now a 20-year-old college student.

The Naperville teen, now 19, testified Tuesday she was so drunk she remembers virtually nothing about what happened Dec. 7, 2002, while she was at a small, late-night party in a Burr Ridge home.

She said she recalls vomiting shortly after arriving at the house about 2 a.m., but then said she can’t remember anything else.

“I have no idea what happened past that point,” she told jurors.

But asked if she ever consented to have sex with Robbins, whom she only met that evening, the woman replied promptly, “No, I did not.”

Whether she consented is the key issue in the trial, Cook County prosecutors and defense attorney Robert Kuzas both told jurors.

Robbins, of west suburban Brookfield, faces two counts of criminal sexual assault. One count alleges he assaulted the girl orally, an act prosecutor Margaret Ogarek contended was captured on the videotape. Kuzas, though, disputes that Robbins had any sexual contact with the girl at that time.

Robbins also is accused of later assaulting the girl in the bedroom, after first ordering the other men, and the video camera, out of the room. He was charged with that offense only after DNA testing found his semen on an object that authorities said had been in contact with the girl’s body. Kuzas, though, argued that the girl at that time engaged in consensual sex with Robbins. “This was two consenting people having sex,” he said. “She is conscious, she is a participant in these acts.”

Robbins is one of four men charged with felonies following the 2002 party. Two men charged with sexually assaulting the teen, Adrian Missbrenner, 20, of Burr Ridge, who hosted the party, and Burim Bezeri, 20, of Lyons, both disappeared last fall while free on bail. Authorities believe they fled to avoid prosecution.

The fourth man, Sonny Smith, now 20, of Brookfield, pleaded guilty to child pornography in January and was sentenced to six years in prison, although he can avoid that term by completing a six-month boot camp