The 2007 De Anza rape investigation was a police inquiry into allegations of sexual assault of a minor arising from an off-campus party on March 4, 2007.
This decision was questioned by many, and the Office of the California Attorney General Jerry Brown was invited by the prosecutor to perform an independent investigation of the available evidence.
No arrests were made, even after a second woman came forward to say that she, too, had been sexually assaulted by De Anza College baseball players.
There was negative reaction in the form of public protests,[11][12] and adverse comments by the county sheriff,[6] a number of newspaper columnists[13][14] and editorial page writers.
The report concluded that these factors made proof beyond a reasonable doubt, as required for a criminal trial, impossible.
[22] That defendant later settled, but according to the plaintiff's attorneys, a witness came forward placing Chadwick in the room during Jane Doe II's rape.
Jane Doe II's case was excluded from the trial, as the court found that there was not enough evidence that Chadwick had planned the attacks.
According to a lawyer for Doe, that was a critical juncture: It prevented the victim's legal team from obtaining evidence that could have helped them pursue their case.
[3] Persky was recalled by voters on June 5, 2018, primarily due to his sentencing decision in the People v. Turner rape case.