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OSAPR Director Sarah A. Rankin says that many Ad Board officers are “uncomfortable” with sexual assault cases, which can negatively impact students’ willingness to share their experiences...
...report came out in 2003, it offered a solution: an increased reliance on independent fact-finders. Since then, fact-finders—often attorneys who are hired on a case-by-case basis—have routinely been brought in to deal with much of the evidence gathering in Ad Board cases...
...Ad 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...
...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...
Adams House Resident Dean Sharon L. Howell says she thinks that fact-finders have been a “huge” help to the Ad Board process...