MIAMI — The twin Alexander brothers will have to stand trial for a sexual assault in which, prosecutors say, they took turns raping a woman as their friend pinned her down eight years ago.

On Monday, Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Lody Jean denied the requests of Oren and Alon Alexander and Ohad Fisherman to throw out the sexual battery case. The trio argued the charges should be dismissed because prosecutors allowed four pieces of evidence to be destroyed, lost or never preserved.

The evidence included a video of the alleged New Year’s Eve 2016 assault, a photograph of a cookout that Alon used to lure the woman to a Miami Beach condo, a text message exchange between Alon and the woman, and drone video showing the twins and Fisherman on a boat, according to court records. In her order, Jean said she could not find that prosecutors allowed the evidence to be destroyed or lost.

Jean pointed to the drone video, which Fisherman’s attorneys argued that was “alibi metadata” because it was taken around the time of the assault. In the video posted on Facebook, Fisherman was on a boat at sunset. Sunset that day was at 5:41 p.m.; the victim arrived to the condo around 6:15 p.m.

“The drone footage as to Fisherman appears to be materially exculpatory if in fact it was made ... approximately 30 minutes before the alleged assault occurred,” Jean said.

The 37-year-old twins and Fisherman have denied the sexual battery charges stemming from an incident in which Fisherman is accused of pinning down the woman as Oren and Alon took turns raping her.

The accuser told police she went to Alon’s apartment after he sent her pictures of people barbecuing and having fun on the patio of his Miami Beach apartment. When she got there, she said everyone was gone.

The woman told police she was sitting on a foot rest at the end of the bed when Fisherman held her shoulders down from behind and the twins discussed who would rape her first. She said the twins disrobed her and used condoms despite being told “no” by her more than once.

Only Fisherman —who is not accused of penetrating the woman — is expected to stand trial in Miami in July for the 2016 incident. That’s because the twins are being held in a New York federal detention center along with their older brother Tal Alexander, 38. The trio has been charged with a host of federal sex crimes that include rape and sex trafficking.

Oren is also charged with two other sexual assaults on Miami Beach, state crimes.

State and federal prosecutors say the three brothers used their fame and wealth to lure women to their Miami Beach and New York apartments and on trips to other cities, even out of the country. The women, prosecutors say, were often drugged before they were raped. During a federal hearing in New York, a witness told the judge more than four dozen women who prosecutors consider credible have come forward with allegations about the brothers.

Alon, Oren and Tal have asked a federal judge to dismiss their indictment because they never paid the women who accused the brothers of sexually assaulting them. Their legal teams have argued that while the brothers may be accused of luring the women to their apartments, hotels and other places in the United States and Mexico while promising to cover their expenses, “the alleged victims did not provide sex ‘on account of’ those promises, as the statute requires.”

More than two dozen additional women in New York and South Florida have filed civil lawsuits saying they were sexually assaulted by one or more of the brothers and asking for damages.

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(Miami Herald staff writer Charles Rabin contributed to this report.)

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