Sex in Bancroft Hall and an unsubstantiated charge of rape embroils a Navy football star and the Naval Academy hierarchy in a courtroom ordeal that satisfies no one—and underscores the difficulties the military still faces in dealing with sexual misconduct cases.
Don Guter, who served as Judge Advocate General of the Navy from 2000 to 2002, said acquaintance rape cases in the post-Tailhook era pose special challenges to convening authorities throughout the Navy.