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SAIF KHAN. Jury Found Him Innocent. Next Step. Yale Finally Lifts His Suspension

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SAIF KHAN. Jury Found Him Innocent. Next Step. Yale Finally Lifts His Suspension

On June 7, Yale College Dean Marvin Chun informed Saif that he could re-enroll in classes as early as this summer. “Because the criminal proceedings against you have ended and you have been found not guilty, I am removing your suspension. You, therefore, are eligible to enroll in Yale summer session if you wish to resume taking Yale courses. The removal of your suspension does not impact your case before the UWC, which will be adjudicated pursuant to the UWC Procedures.”  Cynthia Garrett, Director of FACE  and advisor to Khan responded, “Yale lifting his suspension, his interim suspension, it’s like a Pyrrhic victory.  Yes, you can take classes, but obviously they are aware from the previous how many years that he doesn’t have the money to take classes, nor does he have the money to live on Yale’s campus or anywhere else in the Yale area. He is again depending on the kindness of others.”

yaledailynews.com By O’Daly

JURY FOUND Saif Khan Innocent. Khan’s Lawyer Responds to Resulting Hysteria & Fake News

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JURY FOUND Saif Khan Innocent. Khan’s Lawyer Responds to Resulting Hysteria & Fake News

 I’m not surprised that my client was acquitted. And I am not surprised the state prosecuted. Yale has enormous clout and power in New Haven. The University’s treatment of sexual assault complaints is appalling. Accusers are deemed victims without proof, and fundamental fairness in the investigation of these complaints is sorely lacking. The accuser claimed my client raped her. She needed to earn the right to be called a victim by convincing a jury what she said is true…How dare I ask questions about text messages, alcohol consumption and what the accuser wore. To politicize this case and to suggest that the questions I asked the accuser set back woman’s rights or was otherwise an exercise in unconscionable conduct is not just wrong, it is asinine. Any defense lawyer has the responsibility to cross-examine a witness on the topics on which the state has the witness testify. I’ve long been skeptical of press coverage of trials, but reaction to the Khan case gave me a whole new appreciation of “fake news.”  Those who decry the verdict, or the defense tactics, based on incomplete reporting of the case are reacting like hysteric fools. Perhaps this acquittal will shed light on what comes of assuming that every accusation is true.

pattisblog.com Mr. Khan’s attorney Norman Pattis

YALE: THE EVIDENCE That Swung The Jurors to Unanimously say. Saifullah Kahn is Innocent

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YALE: THE EVIDENCE That Swung The Jurors to Unanimously say. Saifullah Kahn is Innocent

Two jurors involved in the recent sexual assault trial against Yale University student Saifullah Khan are trying to correct the record when it comes to the school’s decision to find the young man not guilty. “He’s innocent, and the facts prove it” Elise Wiener said. “He was acquitted because he deserved to be acquitted and the prosecutor should never have brought the case in the first place.”  The media is getting the facts of the trial completely wrong and maligning Khan.

thefederalist.com By Ashe Schow

YALE JURY Speaks. Evidence Proves Saifullah Khan is Innocent. 100% Innocent.

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YALE JURY Speaks. Evidence Proves Saifullah Khan is Innocent. 100% Innocent.

Press coverage of the acquittal of former Yale student Saifullah Khan on sexual assault charges has distorted the facts of case, jurors say.  According to the evidence presented, the story of what happened between Khan and his accuser is not so cut-and-dry as critics of his acquittal contend. “She testified that she was dragging her leg and he was holding her up.”  But surveillance video of the two of them leaving the concert showed an entirely different picture: “Once we blew the frames up and ran loops, three, four, five times, clearly that wasn’t the case. We all agreed that she was walking hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm, smiling.” In reality, the facts failed her—and the jury had no choice but to acquit.

weeklystandard.com By Alice B.Lloyd

INNOCENT. Yale’s Saifullah Khan is Innocent. Thank God for Due Process.

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INNOCENT. Yale’s Saifullah Khan is Innocent. Thank God for Due Process.

Saifullah Khan predicted four months ago he would beat his prosecution on rape charges. The ex-Yale University student was right- but he’d probably have a different verdict if his accuser had chosen a Title IX proceeding instead of one where Khan could have gone to prison.  It took less than four hours for six jurors to acquit Khan on all four counts “sexual assault in the first, second, third or fourth degrees.”  Juror Diane Urbana said “There was sufficient doubt on every charge.”…“We’re grateful to six courageous jurors who were able to understand that campus life isn’t the real world- kids experiment with identity and sexuality. When an experiment goes awry, it’s not a crime.”  Norm Pattis, Mr. Kahn’s attorney.

foxnews.com By F. Miles thecollegefix.com By G. Piper

INNOCENT EX-YALE Male Acquitted Of Rape Sues University For $110M

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INNOCENT EX-YALE Male Acquitted Of Rape Sues University For $110M

Yale University has been hit with a $110 million lawsuit filed on behalf of Saifullah Khan who was expelled twice. A jury acquitted Mr. Khan, of all charges.

Mr. Khan claims in his lawsuit that the Ivy League institution denied him an education and ruined his reputation after he was accused of raping a fellow student in fall 2015. Khan, a native of Afghanistan who began attending Yale on a full scholarship in 2012, was suspended from classes and then ordered to leave campus after the woman alleged to university officials that the neuroscience major had raped her in 2015.

A jury acquitted Khan.

He returned to the university in fall 2018, despite a petition signed by more than 77,000 people seeking to keep him off campus. He was suspended again in October of that year after a [false] accusation was voiced.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that the process Yale used to engage in its fact-finding was fatally flawed,” Mr. Kahn’s attorney Norman Pattis said. The lawsuit names Yale president Peter Salovey and several deans and administrators as defendants.

nypost.com– J.R. Miller dailywire-Ashe Schow

YALE EXPELS Innocent Male. He’s Appealing. ‘It’s Not he Said-she Said. It’s she Said vs. What the Evidence Says.’-Khan

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YALE EXPELS Innocent Male. He’s Appealing. ‘It’s Not he Said-she Said. It’s she Said vs. What the Evidence Says.’-Khan

Saifullah Khan, the Yale student expelled for alleged sexual misconduct despite having been cleared by a criminal court, has appealed his expulsion to the university.  Last March, Khan, was found not guilty by a New Haven, Conn. court on four counts of raping a fellow student on Halloween 2015. Yet on Jan. 2, Yale expelled the 25-year-old from its campus following its own investigation into the alleged sexual assault. The two outcomes highlight the drastically different standards used by criminal courts and universities in determining guilt in sexual assault cases, and gives further ammunition to those arguing university-led sexual assault processes often violate the due process rights of the accused. During the two-week criminal trial, the six-person jury only deliberated for three hours before clearing Khan of all charges of sexual misconduct. At the time, juror Diane Urbano told The New York Times that there was “sufficient doubt on every charge,” therefore, “we came to the verdict we did.”

Under Yale process, Khan’s attorney was unable to cross-examine his accuser, so the committee was unable to hear many of the inconsistencies in her story that Khan’s lawyer had unearthed during the criminal trial. During the Yale hearing, Khan was only allowed to bring a “counselor” who was unable to speak or provide legal advice during the proceedings. The hearing was not recorded, so there was no permanent record of what was said, and the accuser was not present at the trial.  “This isn’t ‘he-said-she-said,’” Khan said “It’s ‘she-said versus what the evidence says.”

Last fall, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos* issued a proposed Title IX regulation for university sexual misconduct proceedings. The proposal, which is currently working its way through the rulemaking process, would apply basic due process protections for students, including “a presumption of innocence throughout the grievance process; written notice of allegations and an equal opportunity to review all evidence collected; and the right to cross- examination, subject to ‘rape shield’ protections.”

thecollegefix  By Christian Schneider

YALE Male Found Not Guilty In Court Of Sex Assault. Yale Still Expelled Him.

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YALE Male Found Not Guilty In Court Of Sex Assault. Yale Still Expelled Him.

Saifullah Khan, an immigrant who grew up in an Afghanistan refugee camp, won a full scholarship to Yale University. He would later be accused of sexually assaulting a female classmate in 2015 — an accusation that, in a rarity for campus accusations, actually resulted in a criminal trial. During that criminal trial, Khan was found not guilty, based on video evidence that showed him and his accuser walking arm-in-arm and smiling, as well as key-card evidence that supported his story that the woman invited him back to her dorm after he left, and then asked him to check on her friend who was actually too drunk. How was Khan found responsible for sexual assault by Yale when a court found him not guilty? Khan’s attorney, Norm Pattis lays it out on his blog about the case, “Mr. Khan was afforded due process at his criminal trial, but deprived a meaningful right to defend himself at the university’s tribunal.”  “No lawyer, no cross-examination, no right to confront his accuser, no right even to make sure his accuser returned to make her case in person, no right to make a record of the proceedings. Yale’s fact-finders behaved as though the pursuit of justice were the prerogative of a secret society,” Pattis wrote.

In an interview with the Daily Wire, Khan said that he was looking toward the next steps, which as Pattis wrote, include the possibility of a lawsuit against Yale.  “I’m not phased. I still have high hopes for what America stands for and tremendous trust in our Constitutional Republic,” Khan said. “It is important that I stand up because this isn’t just about me. Imagine – if they can get away from doing such terrible things to me like attempting to deport me, Yale really tried to get rid of me. And if they tried doing that with me, what are they going to do to another kid tomorrow?” Khan said. “So I have to stand up. It feels right.”

dailywire By Ashe Schow

KANGAROO COURT @Yale Expels Innocent Male

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KANGAROO COURT @Yale Expels Innocent Male

It did not take a New Haven jury long in March of 2017 to acquit Saifullah Khan of the raping a classmate at Yale University one Halloween night. His accuser took the stand, told her story to the jury, was cross-examined and spent the better part of three days on the witness stand. “Not guilty,” the jury said. In interviews with the press thereafter, jurors made it sound as though this was not a close case. Khan’s accuser wasn’t credible. Period. That didn’t stop Yale from expelling Mr. Khan over the incident. Yale notified Mr. Khan in a brief letter emailed this afternoon (January 2, 2019) that the university sides with his accuser. Just how did this happen?

Mr. Khan was afforded due process at his criminal trial, but deprived a meaningful right to defend himself at the university’s tribunal. I tried both the criminal case and was a silent witness to the university fact-finding process. There’s no doubt in my mind that the process Yale used to engage in its fact-finding was fatally flawed. Mr. Khan was deprived of the right to counsel at Yale’s hearing. He could bring an adviser, but the adviser could not speak. I winced as I listed to panel members ask compound questions, assume facts not in evidence, and engage in the sort of fact-finding blunders lawyers and judges are trained to avoid. No lawyer, no cross-examination, no right to confront his accuser, no right even to make sure his accuser returned to make her case in person, no right to make a record of the proceedings. Yale’s fact-finders behaved as though the pursuit of justice were the prerogative of a secret society.

You’ll have to take my word for this, of course. When Mr. Khan asked for permission to make a recording of the hearing, his request was denied. No record was taken of the proceedings. The secret proceeding lacked transparency, and, therefore accountability. It was painful watching accomplished scholars engage in star-chamber secrecy. They knew not what they were doing. Mr. Khan is now expelled and will have to fight his way back into Yale by way of the courts in lengthier proceedings.

pattisblog By Norm Pattis

GOOD NEWS: Student Cleared Of Sex Assault Returns To Yale, But Still Faces Expulsion

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GOOD NEWS: Student Cleared Of Sex Assault Returns To Yale, But Still Faces Expulsion

A Yale University Student who was cleared of sexual assault charges in a court of law can return to his school, but faces a campus kangaroo court under activist pressure to expel him. Saifullah Khan, an immigrant who grew up in an Afghanistan refugee camp, was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow Yale student after a night of drinking. Jurors took less than four hours to find him not guilty after viewing surveillance video showing Khan and his accuser walking arm-in-arm while smiling, which the prosecution tried to present as Khan dragging the woman. Activists (who were not in the courtroom) do not think Khan is innocent, but jurors say that it was the video evidence that convinced them Khan was not guilty. “He’s innocent, and the facts prove it,” said alternate juror Elise Wiener. “He was acquitted because he deserved to be acquitted and the prosecutor should never have brought the case in the first place.” But the courtroom trial means almost nothing on a college campus. Accused students are routinely denied the ability to cross-examine or even to face their accuser, and exculpatory evidence is often ignored. Schools also don’t have the same powers as police and courts to compel evidence. The video footage that cleared Khan may not even be shown, or it may not be weighted as much as the accuser’s claims…Yale is currently involved in another high-profile sexual assault allegation, this one involving a former basketball captain who is suing the university for denying him due process.

dailywire.com By Ashe Schow

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