Over the course of the investigation, and with the help of some local businesses with security cameras, UW Police Department officers and detectives were able to identify a primary suspect – Brittany L. Townsend, 28, of Madison.
According to police, since late July, at least eight vehicles in the hospital parking ramp and a nearby parking lot were broken into. The windows and windshields of some vehicles were broken, in addition to valuables stolen.
Lawyers for the two women who accused fellow University of Wisconsin-Madison student Quintez Cephus of sexual assault — charges of which he was acquitted by a jury — are calling on the university to further explain its decision to reinstate Cephus.
Attorneys representing the women who accused Wisconsin Badgers player Quintez Cephus of sexual assault last year say UW-Madison’s decision to reinstate him sends a message that the university cannot be trusted to protect victims.
Sophomore Cameron Jacobson said her friend, who is also a student, woke up around 4 a.m. Sunday morning to a man standing over her. She said the man was holding a flashlight over her friend’s face, trying to pull her pants down.
According to new research from Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, racial and ethnic gaps in criminal sentencing have declined significantly since the mid-1990s.
Noted: Staying safe is much more important than getting caught doing drugs or drinking, so rather than fearing potential consequences of drinking underage or doing drugs, focus on calling for help if it means helping someone else or saving a life. Some police departments and colleges, like the University of Wisconsin-Madison, even have a system where if someone is underage drinking, but call to report a crime, they will be safe from any consequences because they were responsible by reporting.
“I understand why the decision was made,” said Erin Thornley Parisi, executive director of the Rape Crisis Center, noting that Cephus was acquitted in criminal court. “But that doesn’t change the impact that it might have on the survivors of the alleged crimes as well as other survivors on campus. It is painful for those who still believe that these women were sexually assaulted by him.”
The Marquette University Police Department will issue citations, with a fine of $86.20, for riding scooters on public sidewalks — enforcing an existing Milwaukee municipal ordinance.
Wisconsinites understand the issues associated with the case of Quintez Cephus, and the dilemma facing UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank. She’ll be damned if she decides to reinstate the former Badger wide receiver and to allow him to attend the university this fall, and she’ll be damned if she doesn’t.
No matter what UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank decides, she will be criticized.
During the investigation, UWPD identified one of the suspects as Travon M. Pearson, 20, of Madison. On Thursday, Pearson was taken into custody on the 500 block of East Washington Avenue.
Campus police detectives and officers said they identified one of the suspects as Travon M. Pearson, 20, of Madison. Officials said they found Pearson on the 500 block of East Washington Avenue and took him into custody.
Officials said there were no signs of a fire when they arrived.
She believes many pieces of evidence added up to form the jury’s not guilty conclusion, but surveillance video of the night shown by the defense stands out as the most persuasive.
The letter addressed racial asymmetry on the UW-Madison campus, a previous racially-charged incident and critiques of race-related disciplinary actions.
UW-Madison officials dispute that characterization of how Title IX investigations are run, saying in a statement to News 3 Now that “if a complainant provides any information during the hearing, they are subject to cross-examination.” They also note that in 2017, “11 complaints of sexual assault against students were investigated and the university found students responsible in 4.”
Some of Madison’s most prominent Black leaders urged University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank to readmit Quintez Cephus to the university after the former football player was acquitted of sexual assault charges.
“This rush to expel people to provide a safe space for accusers is inevitably tipped in favor of the accuser, and therefore severely tramples the rights and futures of many young men,” Van Wagner said.
For safety concerns, Madison officials are looking to temporarily relocate the city’s intercity bus stop outside UW-Madison’s Memorial Union to a new spot on Monroe or Lake streets.
Cephus’ attorney, Steve Meyer, created quite the stir on Monday by claiming that the University of Wisconsin-Madison had “sent us a clear message they do not want… Cephus to be a student at the university this semester.” Not long after, the university released a statement in which it very stridently pushed back against the attorney’s contention:
“The university needs to think about how the nation-wide public and how people of color will view this institution,” Meyer told reporters Monday.
According to his attorney, Kathleen Stillman and Stephen Meyer, it’s time for the university to follow the jury’s lead, and overturn their expulsion, given the former Badger’s acquittal.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison won’t readmit former Badgers football player Quintez Cephus, his attorney told News 3 Now Monday, but the university responded calling the attorney’s comments “false,” saying a decision hasn’t been made.
In a tweet Monday afternoon, UW-Madison said the information was “not accurate” and that the university plans to make a statement.
Meyer incorrectly claimed earlier Monday that UW officials have already made up their mind and will deny Cephus. In the press conference, he pleaded to UW to let Cephus back in.
With the press of a button, nearly 200 emergency phones scattered across UW-Madison’s campus connect students, staff and faculty members to the police.
According to A4 / WDIV, a wrong-way driver who caused a crash that killed herself and the wife and daughter of UW basketball coach Howard Moore near Ann Arbor was drunk, police said, citing a toxicology report.
Former Wisconsin Badgers football player Quintez Cephus has filed a petition to be readmitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison after he was found not guilty of sexually assaulting two female students.
One day after former University of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus told the Journal Sentinel he hoped to resume his education and football career, his attorneys announced they would seek to have Cephus readmitted to UW.
A UW official told News 3 Now that a student who has been expelled may petition the chancellor for readmission. The chancellor would then evaluate the petition based on all applicable laws and policies.
The wide receiver tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in a story published Tuesday that he doesn’t know if he will return to the University of Wisconsin.
24-year old Nathan Friar appealed his conviction after the trial judge questioned the jury’s thinking in finding Friar guilty of second degree sexual assault, yet acquitting him of strangling the victim.
A Dane County jury deliberated for less than 45 minutes Friday before finding former Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus not guilty of two sexual assault charges.
Those who work with rape victims think the not guilty verdict in Quintez Cephus’ sexual assault trial isn’t a surprise.
During closing arguments, prosecutor William Brown urged the jury to find Cephus guilty on both counts. “This is how sexual assault happens. It happens in private. It happens with someone who has more power, someone who has more control.”
UW-Madison’s former receiver Quintez Cephus was found not guilty on both counts of second- and third-degree sexual assault after 30 minutes of deliberation, a four-day trial and a year-long football suspension.
Davis conceded he took a photo of one of the women naked during the evening of the incident at Cephus’s urging.
On Thursday, UW football player Danny Davis testified in court, admitting to taking photos of the two women who say Cephus sexually assaulting them. Davis and Cephus are former teammates. Davis called his actions a “big mistake” during his testimony.
UW football player Davis says victim expressed concern about “hooking up” with Cephus.
On Monday morning, three people found their windows shattered and valuables stolen from their cars parked in the UW Health Hospital parking ramp.”It’s very upsetting, and I understand that,” University of Wisconsin Police Spokesperson, Marc Lovicott said.
The prosecution is trying to prove the women were too drunk to consent, while the defense says the women knew what they were doing and had a consensual threesome with Cephus.
The trial of former University of Wisconsin football player Quintez Cephus began Tuesday with a woman testifying that Cephus raped her in his apartment.
Surveillance video took center stage Tuesday during the first day of the sexual assault trial of former University of Wisconsin Badgers football player Quintez Cephus.
She described a night of drinking in a dorm room and at Madison bars, but said she doesn’t remember much about getting to Cephus’ apartment.
Victim reports extreme intoxication, confusion throughout the incident.
“We had an unusually high number of break-ins, particularly this past weekend,” Marc Lovicott, UWPD spokesman, said.
Twenty four potential jurors were questioned by Dane County Judge William Hanrahan, the prosecuting attorney and defense attorney for more than two hours Monday morning.
Cephus charged with two counts of felony sexual assault.
According to the incident report, the man was walking at around 1:30 a.m. when a partially masked man grabbed him and demanded he give him “anything he had.”
The report found accessibility challenges in mobility, public transportation, private businesses, community events, parks and open spaces and semi-public spaces, including buildings owned by the state, city and UW-Madison.
Noted: African Americans in Wisconsin are four times more likely than whites to be arrested for violating marijuana possession laws, according to an analysis of 2018 arrest data by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
Commenting on the state-specific study, University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology professor Pamela Oliver said: “The only possibility for these statistics to happen is for police to be stopping blacks more than whites. … We know the usage patterns are not different, so if you’re generating a difference in arrests, it has to be differential policing.”
Sex among college students increasingly has raised debate about consent and assault, and that discussion becomes loudest when it involves a high-profile athlete.
Such is the case of Quintez Cephus, a former University of Wisconsin Badgers football player who goes on trial in Madison this week on charges he sexually assaulted two fellow students in the spring of 2018.
The department uses what they call a “behavior-based” approach to policing, and typically only gets involved when individuals engaging in illegal activities like underage drinking bring attention to themselves.
Christensen’s LinkedIn profile states he graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2013.
According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Kohl Center will open around 11 a.m. and anticipate closing around 6 p.m.
A former UW-Madison student is facing life in prison for the rape and murder of a 26-year-old scholar from China whom he abducted from a bus stop near campus in 2017, after a federal jury said Thursday that they failed to agree on sentencing him to death.
Advocate counseled one of the victims after alleged assault.
Matthew Herndon of University of Wisconsin-Madison physics testified Thursday he taught Brendt Christensen and went on to employ him and wrote a letter of recommendation to get Christensen into Illinois’ physics program.
Matthew Herndon of University of Wisconsin-Madison physics testified Thursday he taught Brendt Christensen and went on to employ him and wrote a letter of recommendation to get Christensen into Illinois’ physics program.
