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...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 recommended by either the accused or the accuser to gain information, according to Ellison...
...victims who the victim confides in soon after the incident—can verify the consistency of the victim’s account and provide evidence of the victim’s emotional state shortly after the alleged assault, according to Perry Moriearty, who served as a fact-finder for the Ad Board on multiple occasions before becoming a law professor at the University of Minnesota...
...fact-finder also works to find inconsistencies in students’ accounts...
...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...
...process, the fact-finder has typically interviewed many students—up to 45 in one extreme case, according to Ellison—and written an extensive case report summarizing the information obtained from the witness testimonies and other research...