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A suspended Yale University student from Afghanistan accused of raping a female undergraduate student in 2015 has been acquitted of all charges, and his lawyer is calling on the school to reinstate him.
A state jury in New Haven on Wednesday found Saifullah Khan not guilty of four sexual assault charges in less than four hours.
According to the New Haven Register, Khan testified that he has no real home. Last week he told the paper’s reporter: “I am alone in...

Yale student Saifullah Khan, 25, was suspended by the university after being accused of sexually assaulting a female classmate on Halloween night, 2015. On Wednesday, he was found not guilty of rape, following a court trial in which defense attorneys repeatedly attempted to discredit the alleged victim for drinking and not wearing a more modest costume.
As the New York Times reports, the trial against Khan was noteworthy given just how few campus rapes make it to trial — and how...

It's no secret that sexual assault trials can be grueling and painful experiences, with defense attorneys for the accused going to any lengths required to discredit the testimony of the alleged victim. On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that a Yale University student was found not guilty of rape, and detailed the line of questioning the defense team used to discredit the accuser, including grilling her about her Halloween costume and her behavior.
The student in question is...

A six-person jury cleared Saifullah Khan of four sexual assault charges on Wednesday, more than two years after the former Yale student was arrested for allegedly raping another Yale undergraduate on Halloween night 2015.
The long-awaited trial got underway last Monday, and, just over a week later, after hearing testimony from about a dozen witnesses, the jury began deliberating late Tuesday afternoon. It took less than four hours for the jury to reach the verdict that Khan is not guilty...

Yale student Saifullah Khan was arrested on Halloween 2015 for allegedly raping a female student. The case has dragged on for years. The ruling has broader implications for colleges as they try to address sexual assault. A Yale student was found not guilty on charges of sexual assault Wednesday in a rare campus rape case that was tried in criminal court, The New York Times reported.
The plaintiff, Saifullah Khan, was arrested on Halloween 2015 for allegedly raping a female Yale...

A New Haven jury acquitted Saifullah Khan, a 25 year old Yale student accused of sexual assault in 2015, in what the New York Times calls a “rare college rape accusation to be tried in courts.”
Khan was accused of rape by a former classmate; the incident in question occurred on Halloween night in 2015. The testimony, which was held in an open courtroom, shed some light on the details of these cases, which are often conducted behind closed doors on campus across the nation. Per...

A suspended Yale University student accused of raping another undergraduate student in 2015 was acquitted of all charges Wednesday, and his lawyer called on the school to reinstate him.
A state jury in New Haven found Saifullah Khan not guilty of four sexual assault charges.
The 25-year-old Afghanistan native was charged with raping a female student in her dorm room on Halloween night. The woman testified that Khan took advantage of her when she was drunk, but Khan testified that...

A Yale University student who was suspended from the university for allegedly raping a classmate was found not guilty on Wednesday, closing a years-long case in which his attorneys repeatedly focused on what the alleged victim wore, her text messages, and how much she had to drink as part of their defense.
The case, as the New York Times noted, is rare, as only a sliver of campus rapes ever make it to trial and few involve open court testimony — a Department of Justice report...

A Yale student who had been suspended by the university was found not guilty on Wednesday of sexually assaulting a fellow student, in a rare college rape accusation to be tried in the courts. The verdict laid bare seemingly gaping divides in the national reckoning around sexual consent and assault.
Over several grueling days on the witness stand in a New Haven courtroom, the woman described what she said was her rape by the accused student, Saifullah Khan, 25, on Halloween night 2015. The...

As former Yale student Saifullah Khan’s rape trial entered its second week, the defense called its first witnesses to the stand on Monday morning at the New Haven courthouse.
Khan faces three felony charges and one misdemeanor charge for allegedly raping another Yale student on Halloween night in 2015. He was suspended by the University on Nov. 9, 2015 and arrested three days later. The long-awaited trial got underway early last week, and, by Monday morning, the 10-person jury had...