cross-examine their accusers and accusers who could appeal a not guilty verdict to amounting to what many legal experts say is double jeopardy. the dear colleague guidelines also lead to allegations including the case last may of thomas kaki, a student at the university of texas arlington. he was a straight male accused by a male student of writing anti-gay comments on his computer and calling him anti-gay slurs. he said it was the accuser who made unwelcome sexual advances toward him and because those advances were rejected, he said the accuser made up the story about sexual misconduct. we ended up being charged with two violations, was told he could be expelled and a few days later took his own life. but a lawsuit against the university now claims that he never even got the lowest protections under title ix in saying that a title ix coordinator was never informed of the allegations and that
thomas never got a hearing and therefore never had a chance to present witnesses in his defense. the university of texas won t comment on the lawsuit except to say it followed all policies and procedures and we should note the trump administration is still assessing how to address the dear colleague guidelines. martha: we hope that they will look into it. thank you very much credit is a very important story. joining me now on an exclusive, the attorney did thomas parents, kenneth. thank you very much for being here. obviously this family is distraught, heartbroken over the loss of their son. in these cases where a person who is accused on a college campus, we see time and time again the person who was accused has essentially no right to defend themselves on a college campus, correct? thank you for having made. in this case in particular, thomas had no chance whatsoever to even mount a defense, let alone to have a fair process.
thomas never got a hearing and therefore never had a chance to present witnesses in his defense. the university of texas won t comment on the lawsuit except to say it followed all policies and procedures and we should note the trump administration is still assessing how to address the dear colleague guidelines. martha: we hope that they will look into it. thank you very much credit is a very important story. joining me now on an exclusive, the attorney did thomas parents, kenneth. thank you very much for being here. obviously this family is distraught, heartbroken over the loss of their son. in these cases where a person who is accused on a college campus, we see time and time again the person who was accused has essentially no right to defend themselves on a college campus, correct? thank you for having made. in this case in particular, thomas had no chance whatsoever to even mount a defense, let
defendants could no longer cross-examine their accusers and accusers who could appeal a not guilty verdict to amounting to what many legal experts say is double jeopardy. the dear colleague guidelines also lead to allegations including the case last may of thomas kaki, a student at the university of texas arlington. he was a straight male accused by a male student of writing anti-gay comments on his computer and calling him anti-gay slurs. he said it was the accuser who made unwelcome sexual advances toward him and because those advances were rejected, he said the accuser made up the story about sexual misconduct. we ended up being charged with two violations, was told he could be expelled and a few days later took his own life. but a lawsuit against the university now claims that he never even got the lowest protections under title ix in saying that a title ix coordinator was never informed of the allegations and that