"The mask slips once again. Laura Dunn, a lawyer and prominent advocate for sexual assault victims, admitted that Title IX—the federal statute behind the Education Department's efforts to compel universities to adjudicate sexual assault—does not require investigators to presume that accused students are innocent.
Dunn thinks that's a good thing.
"A presumption of innocence advantages the accused only, and Title IX requires equity," Dunn wrote in an email to Inside Higher Ed.
"No presumption should be made either way, and schools should engage in an inquisitorial process to determine the truth rather than artificially favor the accused going into it."
The presumption of innocence is considered so fundamental to principles of justice that it is enshrined by the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In the U.S., the Supreme Court has held that the presumption of innocence is implicit in the Bill of Rights..."
Read on!
"A presumption of innocence advantages the accused only, and Title IX requires equity," Dunn wrote in an email to Inside Higher Ed.
"No presumption should be made either way, and schools should engage in an inquisitorial process to determine the truth rather than artificially favor the accused going into it."
The presumption of innocence is considered so fundamental to principles of justice that it is enshrined by the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In the U.S., the Supreme Court has held that the presumption of innocence is implicit in the Bill of Rights..."
Read on!
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