Texas basketball coach Chris Beard was arrested and charged with choking his fiancee and fired less than a month later when the university said he was “unfit” to lead the program. ut chrisbeard kprc2 click2houston
. Trew also said she did not believe Beard intended to harm her that night and that she never wanted him to be arrested and prosecuted.
“When a survivor is speaking publicly saying it didn't happen, that makes it tough” for a felony prosecutor to proceed, said Jeana Lungwitz, clinical law professor at the University of Texas and founder and director of the school's Domestic Violence Clinic. “What made it a felony was the strangulation."
“When a survivor calls law enforcement, they just want whatever is happening to stop," Lungwitz said. “They often don't want bad things to happen to their partners. They don't want them to lose their job. They don't want them to go to jail. They are scared and just want them to stop in that moment.”There appears to be no chance of that. Beard still had five years left on a guaranteed contract but was left with nothing when Texas fired him “for cause.
Whether prosecutors dropped the charge or not would not determine whether Beard engaged in conduct unbecoming of the school, Davis wrote in the Jan. 5 letter. Texas officials declined to comment Thursday.
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