HEY, HERE’S AN IDEA — WHY NOT TRY DUE PROCESS INSTEAD? New Scrutiny for Sex Assault Cases.

As the U.S. Education Department is aggressively reinforcing colleges’ legal obligations to address allegations of sexual assault — and making examples of those that don’t — a federal jury on Friday found a university negligent for how it treated someone accused by a fellow student of rape.

The verdict will likely be mulled over at colleges across the country, where judicial hearings for alleged sexual assaults are the norm – and where confusion and a lack of guidance over how such hearings should transpire often result in the mishandling of cases, experts say. However, these discussions tend to focus on the rights of the accuser, rather than the alleged perpetrator.

Well, that focus is by design, of course. It’s just not, you know, constitutional.