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Lamar Owens

1983–

United States

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Lamar S. Owens Jr. (born September 6, 1983) is an American football coach and former midshipman who was the starting quarterback at the United States Naval Academy. He is the current offensive coordinator for The Citadel. He formerly coached at Georgia Tech and Georgia Southern. Owens grew up in Savannah, Georgia, and attended Benedictine Military School, a parochial all-male academy for grades 9-12. Lamar Owens was a 22-year-old senior at the United States Naval Academy while charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) with raping a fellow female midshipman within the school's dormitory (Bancroft Hall) on January 29th 2006. The trial took place in a Military General Court Martial at the Washington Navy Yard in July 2006. A jury panel composed of five active-duty naval officers, all whom were stationed aboard the U.S.

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