JURY BELIEVES EVIDENCE. Ex-Baylor Player Shawn Oakman Found Not Guilty of Sex Assault
A Texas jury found former Baylor football player Shawn Oakman not guilty of sexual assault. The defense called Mr. Conner, a digital forensics expert as its final witness. Conner said text messages inviting Oakman to the bar were deleted from the accuser’s phone. As my Tennessee neighbor Clay Travis notes, the charges against Oakman were heavily publicized, and carried serious repercussions for the Baylor football program. As Clay also points out, Oakman is hardly the only high-profile NFL prospect recently acquitted. Tennessee’s A.J. Johnson (and his teammate Michael Williams) were found not guilty after a mere 90 minutes of deliberations last summer.
At this point, how many more court cases do we need before we return to sanity and reason in the battle over campus sexual assault? As I wrote last month, judges across the country (including, most notably, California judges) are rebuking colleges and universities for establishing campus kangaroo courts designed to secure more punishments for young men. And now we’re seeing real courts demonstrate once again the power of due process.
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