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Omaha Steve

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Tue Jun 24, 2014, 10:21 AM Jun 2014

Lawsuit settlement allows woman who says she was raped 10 years ago in Lincoln to see police file


Snip: “the alleged perpetrator is a person of some public prominence in Nebraska athletics,” he may have received favorable treatment.


http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/lawsuit-settlement-allows-woman-who-says-she-was-raped-years/article_5d5b59c6-6a2e-5fd2-8e97-2162cd6f2e6d.html

POSTED: TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 1:00 AM
By Martha Stoddard / World-Herald Bureau

LINCOLN — A woman who said she was raped 10 years ago in Lincoln will get a chance to see the police investigation file, under the terms of a legal settlement.

The agreement resolves a lawsuit filed against Lincoln Police Chief Jim Peschong by ACLU of Nebraska and the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School.

The suit was filed in Lancaster County District Court in December on behalf of Slate, an online magazine, and a Slate senior editor, Emily Bazelon, who has written a series of stories about rape committed by college athletes and a lack of prosecutions.


FULL story at link.

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