A former University of Alaska Fairbanks hockey player has been found not guilty of charges that he sexually assaulted a woman on campus.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that 24-year-old Nolan Youngmun, of Anchorage, had been charged with first and second degree sexual assault after the woman claimed he raped her on April, 5 2015. Youngmun was cleared of both charges Monday.
Prosecutors had argued that Youngmun entered the woman’s room naked, woke her and sexually assaulted her despite requests to stop.
Youngmun’s attorney had claimed the woman was inconsistent in her accounts to authorities and that university police were too quick to blame Youngmun for the crime.
Court documents say Youngmun has also been indicted on a sexual assault charge for another incident that happened in 2013.
___
Information from: Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner, http://www.newsminer.com
(Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
