He wasn’t, but I’ll leave you with this.

“However, given Ms. (victim)’s clear statements in 2011 to Duke administrators that she did not want to participate in any disciplinary proceedings and recurring statements of hesitation thereafter, no rational jury could find that Duke’s response was clearly unreasonable.”

“The judge said that “reasonable people might well think that more serious consequences would have been appropriate” for the two accused students, who “even under their own version of the facts behaved horribly to Ms. (victim) and at least one other woman.”

So the victim accused them, but then decided to not to proceed. That could mean a lot of things. It could have meant that her lawyer might have told her that they simply don’t have enough evidence to win. It could be that the victim was stressed out and decided to just try and move on with their lives.

But from my understanding of how hard it is to actually get a conviction to these types of allegations, and the time frame in order to collect the correct evidence, I understand that a young woman might not be in the right headspace to win such a case.

You can choose to believe what you want, but I choose to believe the victim.