The story is found here.
Can you blame him for not wanting to go back to that place? Would you return to UND? I wouldn't.
Caleb and a still-unnamed classmate had consensual sex. She lodged a complaint, and a student relations committee ruled in February 2010 that he violated four sections of UND's code of student life, including “violation of criminal or civil laws.
Caleb was banned from campus for three years.
Caleb asked for a rehearing based on new information; specifically, the fact that she was charged with a crime, not him. The fact that he was the real victim here, not her. (One of the reasons Mr. Warner was expelled was because he supposedly violated criminal or civil laws. But it turns out that the law enforcement agency charged with actually determining if a crime should be charged determined that it was the accuser, not the accused, who violated criminal laws.)
In a letter to Mr. Warner, Robert Boyd, UND's vice president of student and outreach services at the time, rejected the request and based it on a section that requires appeals to be filed within five days of any sanction.
Finally, this month, North Dakota’s provost, Paul A. LeBel, wrote in a formal ruling that although the presumption of innocence applies to the accuser, who will not be extradited for the case to proceed, the arrest warrant reflects the “professional judgment of a trained law-enforcement officer that there was probable cause to doubt” the accusation. The sanctions against Caleb were lifted.
It was a very belated, but correct, decision. But it can't undo the harm.
Caleb's life has been scarred forever.
His accuser's identity is still inexplicably protected by the news media. She has been charged with a crime; he hasn't.
In UND's sexual assault protocols, it proudly declares: "UND attempts to foster a safe learning and living environment on-campus for all members of the campus community." http://und.edu/student-affairs/dean-of-students/sexual-violation-protocols.cfm
Based on UND's shameful handling of this case, I think what they mean is "all members of the campus community who don't have a penis." Let's be honest.
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The Grand Forks County District Court formally charged Warner's accuser with "False information or report to law enforcement officers or security officials," a Class A misdemeanor, and issued a warrant for her arrest on May 17, 2010.
Grand Forks County Sheriff's Dept Active Warrants 09-05-11
http://www.grandfork...ff/warrants.pdf
There are 3 entries for "FALSE REPORT TO LE AGENCY" in the document.
One to a female, issued on 18 May 2010 to
JESSICA DENISSE MURRAY. b. 1991
http://en-gb.facebook.com/jessicadenissemurray
Thanks for reminding me, ZimbaZumba. Aren't you the person who previously told me that? Great info.
In related news, William McCormick's case against Brown University (for expelling him and resending his scholarship over a false rape allegation brought by a rich, spoiled princess who was embarrassed that her friends where bugging her that he seemed to like her - seriously, I'm not kidding.), a judge has ordered Brown University to turn over fund raising records which with McCormicks attorneys intend to demonstrate that the girls rich father, Richard Dresdale, used his position as a donor and fundraiser to the University to orchestrate the injustice perpetrated against McCormick on behalf of his "socially aggrieved" daughter.
Brown University Told to Show Fundraiser Record in Rape Case
Whoa! Wait a minute here! What "Rape Case"? There was no rape. That has been well established already. It's a [string of explitives] FALSE RAPE ALLEGATION case!.
Will the press ever be able to get it right? It's a simple, yet important distinction.
Can't say i blame the guy--Kicked out & have his life scarred forever!-I know i wouldn't want 2 return 2 a university that had done that 2 me--Who Would!???-I hate that her identity has been protected-His wasn't when he got charged-Why should hers!???--Just once i would like 2 see a newspaper protect the identity of the innocent(or presumed innocent)guy AND display the identity of the false accuser-Is that too much to ask!???--Yes it is,when you have a penis at least.
Caleb Warner's accuser's name, Jessica Murray, is now in the media 2 weeks after first being exposed on FRS, well done FRS.
http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/219942/
(full name Jessica Denise Murray)
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