\n| \n This story from today’s Globe highlights the lack of consistency in
\n resolution of legal conflicts, especially if one of the parties is a
\n citizen and the other is not. And extra-especially if one of the parties
\n is Harvard…<\/p>\n \n CAMBRIDGE — He had kissed her before. She never disputed that. He had
\n hugged her and bought her dinner. They had talked late into the night
\n over hot tea about their lives. He thought he was falling in love.<\/p>\n After winter break, when students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education
\n returned to their dormitories, she walked to his floor and said hello.
\n She entered his room, they kissed, and for a brief moment, Giorgi Zedginidze,
\n a 34-year-old visiting student from Eastern Europe, considered himself
\n a lucky man. Four hours later, he felt like his life was unraveling.<\/p>\n That night, Zedginidze was arrested on charges of sexual assault. He was
\n handcuffed, strip-searched, and jailed. Nearly two years later, he was
\n acquitted at trial, yet Harvard refuses to readmit him and has resisted
\n scheduling a tribunal to consider it. In the school’s eyes, Zedginidze
\n said, his status is limited to one word: rapist.<\/p>\n "It has been a nightmare," said Zedginidze, from the Republic
\n of Georgia. "They
\n think I am guilty no matter what."<\/p>\n A Middlesex jury acquitted Zedginidze of all six counts of sexual battery,
\n but he cannot finish his degree until the graduate school’s Committee on
\n Rights and Responsibilities clears him. The committee, however, has shown
\n no inclination to schedule a hearing on the matter.If a hearing does take
\n place, he has no right to a lawyer, to face his accuser, or to cross-examine
\n witnesses.<\/p>\n Zedginidze, meanwhile, has lost a full scholarship from the US State
\n Department, a stipend, and the right to stay in the country.<\/p>\n from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story from today’s Globe highlights the lack of consistency in resolution of legal conflicts, especially if one of the parties is a citizen and the other is not. And extra-especially if one of the parties is Harvard… CAMBRIDGE — … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |