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A former Yale University student was found not guilty of sexual assault after a trial.Saifullah Khan was charged with sexual assault in the first, second, third and fourth degrees.
Khan testified that the sex three years ago with the complainant was consensual and that she invited him into her bed, according to the New Haven Register. She on the other hand said Khan took advantage of her being intoxicated.
The incident in question happened Halloween night in 2015. Khan's lawyers...

Defendant Saifullah Khan, on trial for sexual assault, testified Tuesday that his accuser actually was the sexual aggressor who invited him into her Yale dormitory room and then into her bed.
For three full hours Khan gave a detailed and sometimes graphic account of what he asserted happened three years ago during a rowdy Halloween night of campus partying, a Yale Symphony Orchestra concert at Woolsey Hall — during which the female complainant in this case vomited — and the...

The long-term girlfriend of defendant Saifullah Khan, who is on trial for sexual assault charges, testified Monday she had a “Hi, how are you?” phone conversation with the complainant at what might have been about the time of the alleged assault.
The surprise testimony came at the end of a long day of witnesses called by defense attorney Norm Pattis.
Khan, 25, is charged with sexual assault in the first, second, third and fourth degrees for the sexual encounter, which he...

After three days of testimony and cross examination, the alleged victim in the rape trial of former Yale student Saifullah Khan left the witness stand on Wednesday.
Four days into the trial, the jury has heard from five witnesses called by the prosecution, including the alleged victim — referred to in court documents as Jane Doe — two other Yale students who were with Doe in the hours before Khan allegedly raped her in the early hours after Halloween 2015, a third student who...

A friend of the complainant in Saifullah Khan’s sexual assault trial Thursday testified she saw the complainant in “discomfort” as Khan put his arm around her shoulder and his hand on her leg in the period before the alleged assault.
The witness said she observed this while sitting in Yale’s Woolsey Hall during a Halloween concert Oct. 31, 2015. The complainant has alleged that, after the show, Khan, a classmate of hers at Yale, helped her get back to her dormitory...

A court appearance Thursday by a convicted killer on his bid to shorten his 60-year sentence has been delayed at the request of his attorney.
Michael Bernier, now 39 years old, was 15 in 1993 when he shot and killed a Norwich classmate, David Cluny, and Cluny’s mother, Elaine Cluny.
In 1995, Bernier was tried as an adult and convicted. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison for each murder for a total sentence of 60 years.
Bernier appealed his sentence in 2015 as...

More than two years after Saifullah Khan was arrested for allegedly raping another Yale undergraduate after the 2015 Yale Symphony Orchestra Halloween show, the alleged victim gave her testimony as the trial began Monday morning.
Khan, who was first arrested by police in November 2015, was supposed to go to trial in fall 2017, but just as the alleged victim — referred to as Jane Doe in court documents — was about to begin her testimony, the judge declared a mistrial after the...

The details of that night in New Haven were not all that different from many others. There was the off-campus party. The alcohol. The attempts the next morning to make sense of the memories that weren’t there, and the used condoms that were.
What was different was what came next: the report to the police. The prosecutors pressing charges. And now, the trial.
When Saifullah Khan, 25, stands trial in New Haven this week, accused of raping a fellow Yale student on Halloween of...

Jury selection begins in the Kyle Navin case – charged with murdering his parents in 2015. Will shocking text messages allegedly sent by Navin come into play?

Lucian Wintrich was arrested after grabbing a woman who grabbed his notes of a lecturn during a speech at the University of Connecticut. He was charged with misdemeanor breach of peace, which the state agreed to drop at his arraignment. He spoke with his attorney Norman Pattis outside court.
Charges have been dropped against a conservative commentator who grabbed a woman after she took a copy of his speech at the University of Connecticut titled "It's OK To Be White." The woman who took...