Lopsided Campus Rape Tribunals Shock 2 Courts
In separate rulings, judges in Colorado and California found that campus tribunals adjudicating sexual assault claims were grossly unfair. Ordering San Diego State University to "dissolve the finding" of a campus tribunal that found a student guilty of sexual assault, a California judge wrote that the process was so lopsided against the accused that it shocked the court’s conscience.
From Watchdog.org on the Colorado ruling:
The decision came in a lawsuit brought by [Grant] Neal and stemmed from an October 2015 sexual encounter with a fellow student, identified in court documents only as Jane Doe. Neal was a football player, while Doe was in the school’s athletic training program. As an athletic trainer, Doe was prohibited from entering into a relationship with Neal. The two did so anyway.
The difference between Neal’s case and dozens of other sexual assault accusations is that both Neal and Doe maintained the sex was consensual. It wasn’t Doe who made the accusation against Neal, but one of her peers, who noticed a hickey on her neck and asked Doe about it. Doe acknowledged she had sex with Neal, but gave no indication that it was not consensual. The peer reported the incident as rape to CSU-Pueblo’s director of athletic training anyway.
Read the articles here and here.
