In a shocking ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit outlined numerous ways in which the University of Denver (DU) railroaded an accused student despite serious deficiencies in the accuser’s story, but didn’t overturn his expulsion because it claimed the due process violations weren’t related to the accused student’s gender.
The accused student, known in court documents as John Doe, was a freshman at DU in the fall of 2014. In October of that year, he had a sexual encounter with a female freshman in his dorm room. Six months later, the woman – at the insistence of her then-boyfriend – accused John of sexual assault. John was expelled, and filed a lawsuit like many wrongly accused students who were denied due process but are able to afford an attorney to try and get their life back.
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