The Michigan Daily - Monday, December 1,.
LeLoCA STATE
esega1 system offeso ptions to sexual assault victims

1997 -7A

By btephanie Hepburn
Daily Staff Reporter
Last month, University alumna Cara Foley
gave a tearful testimony that prompted a
Washtenaw County judge to nullify a pre-
nged legal agreement and send her criminal
se ual assault case to trial.
The legal system can often provide men and
women who, like Foley, have faced sexual crim-
indfconduct, a way to put their alleged assailants
behind bars, said Lori Coates, Washtenaw
County's assistant prosecuting attorney.
According to police standards, there are cer-
tairr consistent elements that distinguish differ-
entEforms of sexual assault. First-degree and
third-degree sexual assault deal with penetration
* me sort. Second-degree and fourth-degree
ns deal with contact.

Coates said a woman's first step in getting a
possible assailant behind bars is to report the
incident to police.
"The report then comes to us," Coates'said. "We
review whether the criminal charges will be autho-
rized."
Sarah Heuser, former interim director of the
Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention
Center, said it is important to remember that
regardless of which way a person chooses to
cope with being raped, it is the right way for that
person at that time.
"It is important to support them no matter
what decision they make," Heuser said.
If a survivor decides to bring charges against
alleged assailants, there are concrete ways to ensure
the legal process will move ahead more smoothly.
"It is important for the survivor to not show-

er," Heuser said. "Don't wash your clothes or
things related to the scene that go to the
Michigan State Police criminal lab."
Ann Arbor is not free of incidents of criminal
sexual conduct. Earlier this month, a 21-year-old
student was allegedly sexually assaulted in
Nichols Arboretum. After holding her at knife
point, the perpetrator committed an act of first-
degree criminal sexual assault, the student said.
Scientists at the Michigan State Crime Lab use
an examination kit to learn DNA traits of an
assailant, which can be used as evidence in a trial.
At University Hospitals, survivors can be treat-
ed for injuries and tested for sexually transmitted
diseases, using prophylactic treatments adminis-
tered by midwives. DNA tests performed on hair,
skin and semen can provide circumstantial evi-
dence that holds up strongly in trial.

"DNA is an acceptable science," Coates said.
"DNA analysts testify in court on their findings
and can influence the ultimate decision of thejury"
After the survivor decides to press charge. a
police report is filed and revie ed by prosecu-
tors to determine whether criminal charges will
be authorized.
If prosecutors decide to pursue criminal
charges, a preliminary hearing is set to formal-
ize the complaint against the defendant.
"In the preliminary hearing, some evidence is
submitted," Coates said. "At the probable cause
hearing, not all of the information has to be pre-
sented. You just have to prove to the judge that
there is probable cause that the person charged
committed the crime."
In many cases, a judge reviews the information
and decides whether the case should go to court.

Foley, who claims she was raped bya faimily
member in 1991, said when the judge at her pre-
liminary hearing said the case x Ias goino to trial,
she was both happy and relieved. Folk said her
trust was shattered after the incident.
"I thought he was family," Foley sai. "If you
can't trust family, who can you trust?"
Foley said the results of the preliminarv hear-
ing, which was held in September, encouraged
her to press on to trial against her assailant
Though the case is still pending, Foley said the
fact that it is going to trial made her confident
that the defendant would receive punishment for
what he did to her.
"This hearing feels like a win," Foley said at
the time. "Three months is just too easy. I would
rather have a good ending, and he got the maxi-
mum sentence possible."

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will have to be overhauled and converted, as they are
curently not "century compliant." Next, many programs
that are written to calculate, rather than simply store
data, have to be included in the conversion process.
F lly, the University's omnipresent chips, in uncount-
a e machines and software, will have to be replaced or
adjusted.
Thiele and her colleagues have been working on an aggres-
sivt 28,000-hour plan to design a solution that would be
eftive across all University administrative areas. She said
the team plans to have a reliable system in place by the end
of this year, which will leave a year to rectify any discrepan-
cies that might occur.
Thiele said efficient and aggressive attitudes toward
sowing the century debacle are necessary to correct a
prolem that was caused largely by a failure to think about
tfuture.
'J'he century concept was a far-away one at the time,"
ThIle said. "People thought that this stuff (programs) were
not"oing to last that long. Well, guess what, it has!"
Pioblems that may arise with the coming millennium go
far,.beyond tiny computer chips and complicated jargon,
Thile said.
There is very little in our lives which is not affected


by this phenomena," Thiele said.
thing is affected ... The problem
our dependence on information

"Anything and every-
is as wide in scope as
technology and chip

In memory

technology is vast ... Now is only the time to check and
assure if our standing is a safe one."
Thiele said even when reliable correction programs
are in place, communication within the University com-
munity will be key to the project's success.
"The University and all its schools, colleges and depart-
ments need to be aware and on their toes about knowing if
their programs are 2000 compliant or not," Thiele said.
"Neglection could be adverse.'
Jose-Maria Griffiths, lTD executive director and chief
information officer for the University, said everyone on
campus needs to realize the millennium problem is com-
ing.
"The lTD has done well and we are in remarkably
good shape compared to other institutions. Our early
start helped us along ... What concerns us now is the
issue of awareness," Griffiths said. "People need to be
aware of whether their systems, old or new, are 2000
compliant."
Griffiths said horror stories of the millennium bringing
with it plummeting elevators, crashing bank accounts, and
failing medical equipment are greatly exaggerated.
"Come January 1, 2000, we will be in great shape,"
Griffiths said.

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tioning of the girl by Mildred and
the mother showed bias and was
grssly negligent.
,Allowing the mother to partici-
pak in the questioning was a "clini-
ca decision" and "kind of a last-
re;'ert technique," Faller said in tes-
tiliony.
The clinic later concluded the girl's
*g of allegations appeared to be true.
* Jackson County judge hearing

the custody dispute said he disre-
garded the clinic's report, but he
granted custody of the girl to the
mother and phased in unsupervised
visitation for the father.
More than two years later, the judge
awarded custody to the father after
Child Protective Services and state
police determined the mother had been
emotionally and sexually abusing the
girl.
Some psychologists testified the
mother had a paranoid personality dis-
order.

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