Woman applauds removal of Illinois judge who overturned man’s sexual assault conviction, saying it left her ‘broken’
The woman at the center of the case in which an Illinois judge overturned the conviction of a man accused of sexual assault says the 2022 decision left her “broken” — and she applauded the judge’s ouster.
The woman at the center of the case in which an Illinois judge overturned the conviction of a man accused of sexual assault says the 2022 decision left her “broken” — and she applauded the judge’s ouster.
In a scathing 33-page ruling released Friday, the Illinois Courts Commission, a state oversight board, removed Adams County Judge Robert Adrian from the bench.
Adrian sparked outrage two years ago by vacating 18-year-old Drew Clinton’s sexual assault conviction, a charge stemming from a graduation party in May 2021 in Quincy, Illinois, where he was accused of assaulting Cameron Vaughan, then 16.
“I cried. I cried so much,” Vaughan, who goes by "Cammy" and is now 18, told NBC News on Sunday about reading the commission’s ruling. “I was just — it was unbelievable.”
After a three-day bench trial in October 2021, Adrian originally found Clinton guilty of one count of criminal sexual assault, a felony carrying a mandatory minimum sentence of four years in prison.
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