SHE ACCUSED Him Of Sex Assault But Stopped Participating After Being Told Her Claims Would Be Challenged
A female student at the University of Michigan who accused a male student of sexual assault backed out of her claims after a judge ruled the accused student would be allowed to cross-examine his accuser. The judge ordered UM to provide the accused student a “live hearing” and the ability to cross-examine his accuser. UM appealed the ruling to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the accused student’s attorney, Deborah Gordon, filed a motion recently saying the appeal was moot because UM dropped the Title IX charges against her client.
UM tried to claim in court that John Doe was responsible for the case’s ongoing adjudication, saying the accuser had waited two years while John “and the district court prevent the University from completing its investigation into her allegations of rape and from conducting a hearing,” and tried to claim that Jane dropping out of the “fitful process” should serve as a reason for courts to stay out of “an ongoing process.”
Gordon, John’s attorney, responded by saying UM was “solely responsible for the trajectory of these events,” and that John was the victim here, having his life disrupted and continuing to live with a “significant cloud over him.”
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