DUE PROCESS Is Crucial To Justice For Accusers and Accused
Imagine that President-elect Trump promised he would make it easier to deport immigrants who had been accused of a crime. People would be rightly outraged. They would point out that an accusation is not the same thing as a conviction, and that people were surely entitled to a fair hearing before having the course of their lives permanently altered. Say the same thing about students accused of sexual misconduct on campus, and you will get quite a different response. If you voice support for due process rights in this setting, you’re likely to be accused of not caring about justice. People accused of serious wrongdoing of any kind, people whose futures are rightly at stake given the severity of the accusations against them, deserve a fair process that affords them a meaningful opportunity to defend themselves. To understand this, consider the University of Kentucky lawsuit…
washingtonexaminer.com By Samantha Harris
