Another Sexual-Assault Acquittal Reaffirms the Need to #BelieveEvidence

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'Yesterday a Texas jury found former Baylor football player Shawn Oakman not guilty of sexual assault. As my Tennessee neighbor Clay Travis notes, the charges against Oakman were heavily publicized, and carried serious repercussions for the Baylor football program:
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At this point, how many more court cases do we need before we return to sanity and reason in the battle over campus sexual assault? As I wrote last month, judges across the country (including, most notably, California judges) are rebuking colleges and universities for establishing campus kangaroo courts designed to secure more punishments for young men. And now we’re seeing real courts demonstrate once again the power of due process.
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For example, in one of the key studies used to proclaim that women rarely lie about rape, the researchers found that 5.9 percent of claims were false and that a whopping 44.9 percent were classified as “case did not proceed.” And what was a prime reason why those cases did not proceed? Lack of evidence.'

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