Jury to begin deliberating federal charges against Scott Shaw in San Jose courthouse.
SAN JOSE – San Jose State’s former head athletic trainer might have touched female athletes in a way that made them so uncomfortable, and did so little to explain his methods or secure their consent, that jurors might conclude that Scott Shaw should have been fired from his job, a defense lawyer conceded during closing arguments in the federal trial Monday.
“If there was a failure to communicate, that’s on Mr. Shaw. He was the adult in the room,” Callaway said. “But that, folks, is not a crime.” The showdown in a San Jose federal courtroom Monday set the stage for an eight-woman, four-man jury to begin deliberating the case – culminating a two-week trial and closing a more-than-decade-long saga that has rocked the university.
Subsequent investigations by law firms hired by San Jose State and the Cal State system, along with the U.S. Department of Justice, all concluded that Shaw sexually abused numerous female athletes during his 14 years at the school, where he became director of Sports Medicine. Shaw was put on criminal trial when he was charged with six federal civil rights charges involving four women who came forward with allegations since 2017, within the statute of limitations.
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