In Commentary, KC Johnson notes courts have tossed school’s guilty findings on due-process grounds in at least 59 cases since 2013, 21 one of them this year alone.
How is this a win for the accusers? They’re only forced to go through a second round of hearings and retell their story when cases go before real judges.
And consider: In a few cases, the accused may actually be guilty — but gets off because his rights were violated by his school. Why even have schools get involved in criminal matters in the first place?
In the last few years, we’ve seen several high-profile rape cases turn out to be false: the Rolling Stone story about the alleged rape of a University of Virginia student, for example. Or the central case in “The Hunting Ground,” the documentary about rape. What happens to the young men whose lives were destroyed?
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