The Kickham Comment - Boston Criminal Attorney Blog
I’ve written before about how the Obama-era regulations that defined and governed sex offenses under the federal law known as Title IX, were far too weighted against the accused. “Title IX” prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender at colleges, universities and any educational institutions receiving federal funds. The law is enforced by the U.S. […]
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Massachusetts Campus Sexual Assault Investigations: Federal Appeals Court Rules That Colleges Not Required to Allow Accused to Cross-Examine Accuser
I’ve written previously in this blog about how unfair the federal Department of Education’s “guidelines” to colleges & universities has been over the past few years, regarding how colleges should conduct investigations and hearings on matters involving accusations of student sexual misconduct. This system, known as “Title IX Investigations” is tremendously unfair, and weighted in […]
Massachusetts Campus Police Records: Hidden From Public View
Police Department records are public documents. Though not everyone knows that, many people do. That’s a good thing, because, for obvious reasons, we wouldn’t want Police Departments to operate in secrecy. Not only do police departments keep their daily logs public – which are abbreviated, digested descriptions of police activity, they must also make the […]
Massachusetts College Sex Assaults: Keep Them In Courts & Off Campuses – Part Two of Two
In my previous post on this subject, I wrote of how colleges and universities across the United States are rapidly disassembling the way that accusations of college campus rape and college campus sexual assault are handled – and of how, in the process, many accused students’ legal and constitutional rights are being trampled in the […]
Massachusetts College Sex Assaults Investigations: Keep Them In The Courts & Off Campuses
There’s a growing trend across Massachusetts college campuses, and at universities throughout the United States, and it isn’t pretty: Colleges and universities that conduct their own “investigations” over accusations of sexual assault, and hear “evidence” in their own internal “tribunals,” consisting of anything but trained judges or even attorneys. What’s going on here, you ask? […]
False UVA Campus Rape Allegations Highlight Need for Caution In Massachusetts Campus Rape Accusations
If you pay attention to the subject of campus rape and college student sexual assaults, you couldn’t have missed the mainstream media’s reporting of Rolling Stone Magazine’s very public retraction of a controversial story it published last November 2014, titled “A Rape on Campus.” The story described a horrific gang rape of a female student […]
Massachusetts Campus Sex Assaults: Guns Not The Answer
College campuses are hotbeds of youthful activity: Fraternities and sororities. Football and varsity sports games. Lots of consumption of alcohol. Drugs. Partying. Linking up between students (as opposed to dating). Put it all together, and at many, many colleges and universities, when it comes to college sexual assaults, those things are recipes for disaster. Today, […]
Massachusetts Campus Rape Charges: Students Should Beware Activists’ Attempts to Redefine Rape.
More than one person over the course of my career has asked me – usually with disbelief written all over their faces – how I can defend people accused of rape and other sexual crimes. My answer is always the same: Because the person who is accused may not be legally guilty of the particular […]
New Federal Regulations For College Sex Assault Investigations Spur Debate
My previous post on this subject discussed new regulations proposed by U.S. Education Secretary Betsy Devos, for use by colleges and universities that investigate allegations of sexual abuse, sexual assault or sexual harassment by students. Under the proposal, fewer allegations would be considered “sexual harassment”, and colleges and universities would be responsible for investigating only […]
U.S. Education Secretary Proposes New Rules For College Sex Accusation Investigations
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy Devos earlier today released a long-awaited series of formal proposals for how colleges and universities respond to accusations of “sexual assault” and conduct investigations into such incidents. The proposed revisions would update “guidance recommendations” previously put in place buy the Obama administration, and predictably, Democrats and “#MeToo activists”, howled their […]