Emily Simpson

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On December 18th, 2018, Mike Levengood was charged with rape.

The prosecutors spent the next year building the case against him.

They were going to a jury trial and the state wanted a conviction.

So they ran toxicology, consulted with experts, combed through online chats, and analyzed every moment of the dozens of videos they were able to track down.

In the end, they gathered over 30 videos Mike had filmed without Saskia's consent.

In many of them, she was completely unconscious and her husband was violating her.

Mike was charged with 31 counts of illegal surveillance.

And even though prosecutors had video evidence of what Mike did, in the end, they were only able to bring four counts of rape.

Under Maryland law, it was legal to rape your unconscious spouse, just so long as it was done without force.

If he was found guilty of every charge, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.

That was Saskia's hope.

I wanted him to be in jail.

And I felt like testifying against him and holding him accountable would give me back some of my power.

But if the jury questioned Saskia's story, Mike could walk free.

For Ashley Inderfurth, the lead prosecutor on the case, it was nerve-wracking.

This isn't a scenario where it's a 50-50 and we got to get it to 51%.