Bond set for former UVA Football wideout Jahmal Edrine in rape, abduction case

An Albemarle County judge set bond on Wednesday for former UVA Football wideout Jahmal Edrine, indicted last week on rape and abduction charges, at $25,000, and scheduled his next court date for next month.

Among the revelations in a Wednesday bond hearing in Albemarle Circuit Court:

Susan Baumgartner, an assistant in the Albemarle County Commonwealth’s Attorney office, submitted 150 pages of text messages between Edrine and the unnamed victim in the Aug. 24, 2025, incident, all of which are said to have been sent within 48 hours of the incident.

This was to counter the selection of text messages that Edrine’s attorney, Rhonda Quagliana, had submitted ahead of a Monday court hearing that she wrote in a motion “reflect what really happened and completely discredit allegations of abduction and rape.”

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One text from the victim that Baumgartner read in court on Wednesday was one in which the complainant is said to have asserted: “I told you ‘No’ twice, three times actually,” in reference to Edrine’s act of ejaculating in her, before she accused Edrine of not knowing what the word “No” meant.

In another text, the victim reportedly communication to Edrine: “You sending money doesn’t undo what you did.”

The prosecutor also said in court that the victim underwent a forensic exam because she was bleeding in the hours following the encounter.

We also now know that Albemarle County Police searched Edrine’s apartment within 24 hours of the incident, and that the victim later asked police not to pursue charges against Edrine, because, per a text read in court, she “cared” about him.

Quagliana, arguing on Edrine’s behalf at this stage just for the matter of the request for bond, played for the court a recording of a call between the victim and a police detective in which the victim is heard to say, “I don’t believe that was rape at all,” and which ended with the detective offering to complete the investigation, but not pursue charges.

Edrine is now officially no longer in custody, per the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail inmate locator.

The conditions of his bond include a requirement that he wear an ankle monitor, have no women in his apartment that are not biologically related to him, no direct or indirect contact with the complainant, and that he can’t leave the state without prior court approval.

Edrine is due back in court on March 13.