Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

Author:Jon Krakauer [Krakauer, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9780385538732
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

On February 17, ignoring Aronofsky’s recommendation to wait until after the opposing parties had a chance to discuss the best way to proceed, Paoli hired a private investigator, Mark Fullerton, to observe Cecilia Washburn’s house, make sure she wasn’t on the premises, and then interview her two housemates in order to gather evidence that could be used to cast doubt on her claim that Jordan Johnson raped her. Although hiring private investigators to do this sort of thing is common in criminal rape cases, it had seldom, if ever, been done during a UM adjudication of a Student Conduct Code violation. When Washburn returned home and learned that Fullerton had been there grilling her housemates about what they recalled about the night of February 4, she became quite upset. It was “frightening,” she later testified, and she felt “violated.”

Later, Cecilia Washburn discovered that David Paoli had also sent investigator Mark Fullerton to the tiny community where she had gone to high school (the population of the entire town was 171) to gather derogatory information about her. There was no mistaking that Paoli intended to mount an extremely aggressive defense of Johnson.

When Washburn realized that a private investigator was snooping into her personal life, she called Dean Couture to express her shock and revulsion. Couture phoned Fullerton and left a message ordering him to “cease and desist” invading Washburn’s privacy. Paoli responded immediately to Couture with a phone message of his own, reminding Couture that he had a right to question witnesses and had, in fact, obtained permission from UM counsel David Aronofsky to contact Washburn’s housemates.

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ON FEBRUARY 24, Dean Couture summoned Jordan Johnson to his office for their first investigatory meeting. Paoli and Aronofsky were also in attendance. According to a legal brief filed by Paoli,

Couture began the meeting and was immediately abrasive and antagonistic. Although the Student Conduct Code indicated that he was required to present the evidence against Mr. [Johnson] and then allow Mr. [Johnson] to respond, [Dean of Students] Couture, to intimidate, commenced the meeting by looking at Mr. [Johnson] and blurted: “did you rape Ms. [Washburn]?”

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