Haskell student will not face third trial in rape case
May 19, 2017
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A former Haskell Indian Nations University student will not be tried a third time on charges of raping another student.
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office said Thursday it would not retry 22-year-old Galen Satoe.
Satoe and 21-year-old Jared Wheeler were charged with raping a 19-year-old Haskell freshman in November 2014 in their dormitory room. The men maintained the encounter was consensual.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports (http://bit.ly/2q4dr37 ) Satoe's two previous trials ended in mistrials on most of the charges.
The Douglas County attorney said it...
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