BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A Baton Rouge judge has postponed the trial for a 21-year-old man facing rape charges in the Madison Brooks case.
According to court documents, the trial for Desmond Carter, originally set to begin Monday, Aug. 17, has been delayed after a motion hearing was scheduled for Sept. 17.
Carter was indicted in 2023 for first-degree rape and third-degree rape.
Brooks was a 19-year-old LSU student who was hit by a car on Burbank Drive during the early morning hours and later died…