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When students and faculty realized the magnitude of the policy change—and the negative consequences it would have for victims of sexual assaults—they initiated a campus-wide dialogue on the subject. The University established the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard, which included two students and held several public forums to solicit opinions from the entire community. In April, 2003, the Faculty followed the advice of the committee and essentially reversed its vote of a year earlier by removing its requirement of “corroborating evidence” in sexual assault cases...
...suspect, a 57-year old black man from Roslindale, Mass., was transported back to the Brookline police station, where he was charged on six counts, including armed assault with attempt to murder. Because he was acting erratically—according to police he made several more attempts to escape while being held in Brookline—the man was delivered to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to undergo psychiatric evaluation...
...next and final development in the case came at a pre-trial hearing on January 9, 2001. Prosecutors amended the most serious count against Hunt—armed assault with the attempt to murder, which can carry a 5 to 20-year prison sentence—to assault and battery on a police officer, which is punishable with up to a two-and-a-half-year jail term...
According to Hunt, the Commonwealth knew that the charge of assault with attempt to murder was “trumped...
Cicero was charged with six counts, including initially a count of assault with the intent to murder. That charge, however, was downgraded, and currently the most serious charges against Cicero are counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, which could land the defendant in jail for two-and-a-half years...