Tag: Due Process

Students organized a march to protest how a college handled recent sexual assault allegations. (AP Photo/Amy Anthony)

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Lessons from the California court ruling campus sex assault hearing ‘unfair’

Ashe Schow · July 16, 2015 6:36 pm

WendyÂ Kaminer is quick to point out that there is nothing wrong with teaching students about consent, but cautions against the "yes means yes" approach. (AP Photo)Â

Updating the cliche that it’s better to let ’10 guilty men go free’

Ashe Schow · July 16, 2015 4:01 am

Students in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Even if false rape reports are rare, they shouldn’t be ignored

Ashe Schow · July 14, 2015 7:09 pm

Judge Joel M. Pressman deemed a University of California-San Diego campus hearing "unfair," ruling that the hearing panel limited the accused student's right to due process. (iStock photo)

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Judge rules campus kangaroo court ‘unfair’

Ashe Schow · July 13, 2015 9:03 pm

Current law allows the government to gain warrantless access to your emails that have been stored more than 180 days.Â (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

False advertising for email privacy legislation

Mark Fitzgibbons · July 13, 2015 4:01 am

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Sen. Dean Heller, R-N.V., Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are joined by sexual assault survivors during a news conference about new legislation aimed at curbing sexual assaults on college and university campuses at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center July 30, 2014 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Due process for campus sexual assault is not a left/right issue

Ashe Schow · July 9, 2015 4:01 am

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., poses for a portrait after speaking about military sexual assaults, during an interview in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kirsten Gillibrand’s assault on reality

Ashe Schow · June 25, 2015 4:01 am

This week, Fox News host Megyn Kelly took issue with a particularly egregious case in which a male student received a sex act while he was blacked out and two years later was accused of sexual assault. (AP Photo)Â

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Finally, someone in the national media is standing up for due process

Ashe Schow · June 19, 2015 6:57 pm

Kirsten Gillibrand's bill does not specifically lay out what rights accusers (the bill calls them "victims" throughout, except for once, illustrating a clear bias) and the accused have. (AP Photo)Â

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Kirsten Gillibrand claims her bill gives equal rights to accusers and accused, but it doesn’t

Ashe Schow · June 17, 2015 8:19 pm

College of William and Mary sophomore Thomas Briggs insisted that America doesn't have a "rape culture," but it does have a "hookup culture" where students get drunk and engage in sexual activity. (AP Photo)

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Colleges between a rock and a hard place on campus sexual assault

Ashe Schow · May 26, 2015 7:31 pm

"I live in constant fear that the person I attempt to work with or my new employer is going to enter my name into Google and then rescind any offer for work," Scott told the Washington Examiner.

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One year later, California man still haunted by false charges

Ashe Schow · May 21, 2015 8:02 pm

The Huffington Post has finally updated an article about a California man being charged for allegedly "sexting" a minor -- one year after charges were dropped. (Getty Image)

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Huffington Post updates article one year after charges dropped against innocent man

Ashe Schow · May 7, 2015 6:04 pm