DEFENSE SAYS BRAWLEY SHOULD NOW TESTIFY.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: Associated Press

POUGHKEEPSIE -- A lawyer for one of Tawana Brawley's three former advisers called Thursday for the alleged victim to take the witness stand as the jury that found the trio guilty of defamation now assesses damages against them.

``This trial is about Tawana Brawley and it would be incomplete without her participation,'' said C. Vernon Mason's attorney, Stephen Jackson, who stopped short of saying whether Brawley would actually show up at the Dutchess County courthouse. She has not been to the trial.

Steven Pagones, who launched the slander suit after being accused of Brawley's alleged rape and abduction, called the offer to …