LAWSUIT: GWU BLOCKS Appeal by Accused after Accuser Caught Creating Cell Phone ‘Evidence’
In January 2018, George Washington University found John Doe responsible for sexually assaulting Jane Roe in 2015 and suspended him for one year. The key evidence that Roe was too intoxicated to consent was an alleged phone call between her and a friend “E.E.” E.E. claimed that Roe slurred her words and was clearly incapacitated. It was the only testimony out of six (before the hearing board) that claimed Roe was visibly drunk and spoke “incoherently.” But then Doe discovered that the phone call was a fabrication, it never happened. And the discovery of the invented phone call between Roe and E.E. came nearly two months after Doe filed his appeal. Currently GWU is refusing to grant an appeal to the accused student it found responsible for sexual assault, choosing instead to ‘ignore the revelation that his accuser fabricated a key piece of evidence and likely mischaracterized her inebriation.’ Doe filed a motion for partial summary judgment in his lawsuit against the private university last week, asking a federal judge to force it to hear his appeal, which GWU deemed not “viable.”…According to KC Johnson, the worst aspect is that ‘GW now knows the accuser (and the university’s star witness) weren’t telling the truth, and knows that its decision is robbing the accused student of a chance of attending grad school, and the university doesn’t care.” “At some point the truth has to matter” the filing says.
thecollegefix.com By Megan Keller
