Davidson College Sexual Assault Case Dismissed Due To Lack Of Evidence

DAVIDSON, NC -- Mecklenburg County prosecutors are dropping their sexual battery case against a Davidson College student, saying there isn’t enough evidence to prove a crime was committed, The Charlotte Observer reported Thursday.

Assistant Mecklenburg District Attorney Walton Walker filed to dismiss the misdemeanor sexual battery case against Danny Jones, a student from Garden City, N.Y., saying that there wasn’t enough evidence to prove a crime was committed since the accuser and Jones had “a consensual intimate encounter recently before” the incident that occurred when she went to his dorm room in September 2016, the newspaper reported.

Jones was arrested for touching the accuser’s breasts after she got in his bed, his attorney told the newspaper.

A separate sexual battery case involving a Davidson student is set for trial later in May, and stems from an incident that occurred in January.

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