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When the Leaning Committee’s report came out in 2003, it offered a solution: an increased reliance on independent fact-finders. Since then, fact-finders—often attorneys who are hired on a case-by-case basis—have routinely been brought in to deal with...
As the Ad Board does not perform or require rape kits or forensic investigation of any kind, the board relies heavily on witness testimony—making the fact-finder particularly important to the process. While there are rarely eyewitnesses in sexual assault cases, the fact-finder will interview students...
“If there are two students that are completely in disagreement about what happened, it comes down to credibility,” Ellison says. “If the details vary significantly [with each retelling], the fact-finder judges that for us,” Ellison says.
“Because they are professional lawyers, they have a professional sense of what ought to be pursued and what doesn’t necessarily apply to the case,” Howell says. “It’s their dedicated job to organize and follow through...
“There are moments when what the board is forced to do by Faculty rules feels incommensurate with the outcome I would like to see,” she says.