Naval Academy drops sex assault charges against football player
The superintendent of the Naval Academy has dropped all criminal charges against a second football player accused of sexually assaulting a female midshipman at a party in Annapolis, officials said Friday.
Military lawyers advised Vice Adm. Michael H. Miller to drop the case against Midshipman Eric Graham after a military judge ruled that statements Graham made to investigators would be inadmissible in a court-martial because he had not been read his Miranda rights.
Graham, a fourth-year midshipman from Eight Mile, Ala., had been charged with abusive sexual contact and making a false statement. He was one of three Navy football players initially accused in the alleged assault during the April 2012 party. Only one now faces prosecution.
The news came as the Pentagon released its annual assessment on sexual assault at the military academies. Reports of sexual assault at the Naval Academy rose slightly, to 15 in the past academic year, up from 13 the year before.
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