The New York Court of Appeals decided Thursday that hearsay evidence taken by an academic tribunal on an alleged sexual assault at the State University of New York at Potsdam was substantial evidence in lieu of the accuser’s testimony.

The judges wrote in an unsigned memorandum that SUNY Potsdam had sufficient evidence to find the assailant, student Benjamin Haug, had violated its code of conduct.

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