Ex-Vanderbilt student and former football player Brandon Vandenburg has been convicted at his retrial of aggravated rape for egging on his teammates to rape an unconscious woman in 2013.
In January 2015, ex-Vanderbilt University football players Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey were found guilty of aggravated rape on an unconscious woman. In a statement, the victim thanked the prosecutors and detectives that had worked on her case, leading to a rare conviction. “I am... hopeful that the publicity…
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Two Vanderbilt University football players convicted of rape were released on bond Wednesday after the judge granted a mistrial in their case. Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey will be allowed to stay out of jail while they wait to hear when they will be re-tried. Vandenburg’s attorneys told local media he’d be…
A judge in Nashville, Tennessee has declared a mistrial in the case of two Vanderbilt University football players convicted of rape. Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey were convicted of the rape after portions of the attack on a fellow student were captured on a dorm surveillance video and in cellphone photos taken by…
Cory Batey and Brandon Vandenburg have been found guilty of all charges relating to the gang rape of a fellow Vanderbilt student in the summer of 2013. A guilty verdict in a rape case. Would you look at that.
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The attorney for one of the Vanderbilt football players accused of participating in the rape of a woman last summer has entered an unusual argument on behalf of his client: Brandon Vandenburg couldn't possibly be held responsible for rape; he was simply too drunk to know what was going on.
Because it is another day in America, an esteemed institution of higher learning faces a federal lawsuit for handling sexual harassment abysmally. In this particular case, a former Vanderbilt graduate student alleges that she was sexually harassed by a supervisor and roundly ignored and discriminated against by…
Police in Tennessee have proposed a law that could make all details of rape cases — even the fact that a rape was committed in the first place — secret until the trial of the accused. Great news for police stations who can avoid being egged in the face by critical press; bad news for women who, you know, might want to…
In the wake of June's dramatic rape case involving four members of the Vanderbilt football team, a group of six current and former Vanderbilt students filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights under the U.S. Department of Education Thursday arguing that the university hasn't responded to sexual assault on…
One of the former Vanderbilt football players involved in the aggravated rape and battery of an unconscious female student earlier this year pleaded guilty on Friday to a misdemeanor.
The news out of Nashville about the former Vanderbilt football players accused of raping an unconscious woman on campus keeps getting more horrible: a fifth player has been indicted for his role in the sexual assault. The silver lining in all of this? Vanderbilt seems to be taking this incident quite seriously.
The sexual assault investigation that led to the dismissal of four Vanderbilt football players has taken a decisive turn down the criminal justice thoroughfares with news Friday that the players have been officially charged with the rape of an unconscious Vanderbilt student in a dorm room. Metro police have thus far…
Less than a month ago, four players on Vanderbilt's football team were dismissed amid an investigation into alleged sex crimes. And during a press conference yesterday, reflecting an appropriate air of solemnity, players had great things to say about the team's chemistry, and that they hoped that in the future…
Four Vanderbilt University football players have been dismissed from their team and suspended from school; this came a day after an announcement from the university that Nashville Metro police are investigating an alleged sexual assault that occurred in a campus dorm on Wednesday. Both police officials and the…
Vanderbilt University's head football coach is in hot water for telling a radio host that when he looks to hire assistants, he first looks at their wives, you know, to make sure they're "Division 1 material." I had an inkling that Vandy's decision to hire the pervy kid brother from a John Hughes movie would backfire.
