Cleared in Campus Rape, Student Files False Arrest Suit

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'Plaintiff Samy Jecrois was arrested Nov. 12, 2014, two days after a sexual encounter in his dorm room with a female student, the complaint says. He was held in the Hudson County Jail until Dec. 2, 2014, because he could not make the $250,000 bail, the suit claims. The prosecutor's office administratively dismissed his charges Dec. 22, 2014, before the case could be submitted to a grand jury.

The alleged victim, identified in the complaint as S.S.D., described to investigators multiple versions of what happened during the encounter with Jecrois, according to the suit. Inconsistencies in her account demonstrated that she could not tell a credible story in an interview with investigators, that she described an event that "could have been viewed as a consensual sexual encounter" and that the problems with her story should have alerted detectives that her allegations were insufficient to establish probable cause, the suit claims.

In Jecrois v. Sojak, the plaintiff describes three versions of the encounter that S.S.D. gave during an interview with investigators, each providing different details. In one version, she said she was afraid of him, and in another, she claimed she was saying "no, no" when he attempted to have intercourse with her.

"As described by S.S.D., this encounter should have alerted a reasonable law enforcement officer that what happened was a truly awkward instance of consensual sex rather than a forceful, involuntary sexual assault," the suit claims.'