Michael Wedmore is a drug dealer who raped Sarah Walsh, but due to his defense attorney creating reasonable doubt, he was acquitted. He was suspected of raping her for a second time before being proven he didn't.
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Michael followed Sarah to her apartment, where he proceeded to rape Sarah at gunpoint. Since she waited a day before reporting it to the police as well as showered, the SVU detectives are unable to recover any DNA evidence except for what Michael left on the glass of beer she gave him.
After Sarah sees Michael outside of a local bar, Detectives Olivia Benson and Nick Amaro track him down and arrest him. Michael returns home and his mother and fiancée start screaming because he is being arrested. Right before Amaro cuffs him, Michael tosses a gun under the couch, which Amaro retrieves.
Bayard Ellis, a well-acclaimed attorney and civil liberties advocate, takes Michael's case pro bono in order to expose the NYPD's violations of protocol on both the ID of the suspect and the recovery of the gun. Ellis casts doubts on the prosecution of his client, claiming that the case is racially motivated.
During the trial, Ellis suggests that the gun was planted by Amaro and reveals that Sarah had sex with an anonymous black man the night before her rape. Michael denies having any sexual contact with Sarah and claims that she tried to seduce him. In the end, he is acquitted on all charges. (SVU: "True Believers")
When Sarah is raped a second time in 2013, Sarah, who is unable to remember who raped her, suspects Wedmore, remarking she kept seeing him after the acquittal and was being stalked by Wedmore. But when the detectives speak to Wedmore's mother, they discover he has an alibi at the time that Sarah was raped. (SVU: "Wonderland Story")