It's all about planting the seeds for reasonable doubt. The defense knows they are never going to make these guys look like choir boys. They are going to the notion that this is based on embarrassment and regret after the fact rather than lack of consent at the time, which is probably the only possible path for them and pretty predictable. You can tell that they are playing up on her using alcohol purposely to become less inhibited and to do things she wouldn't otherwise, but also implying that she wasn't completely drunk and being taken advantage of.
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