Nash v. Auburn University

Statement of Facts Nash v. Auburn University involved a challenge by two first-year graduate students to a one year fracture imposed for cheating on examinations. At the suspension audience the students desire to examine the schools witnesses directly rather than through an go-between hearing card member, who would pose the students questions to the witnesses.QuestionsMid-State says that Landry enrolled at the university and therefore has waived any notwithstanding protections than those granted him in the rules and regulations. Is this military capability well taken? Yes it is the schools argument is that the penal code and an academic criminal code protest crucially in a delegacy bearing directly on the set of confrontation. Penal code enforcement rests upon well deft professionals such as police officers and public prosecutors.Landry asserts that he is entitled to rent his lawyer throw during any procedures designed to expect him. Is this position reasonable? Yes, to be aerated with cheating on a final examination seems little different from being charged with defrauding ones creditor. Any conviction of the rudeness whitethorn lead to grievous sanctions such as suspension or expulsion for the student, jail time for the criminal defendant.Landry states that he has the right to cut across examine the witnesses against him. Is he correct? No, in rejecting their constitutional claim that this validating process denied them their right to confront opposing witnesses, the trial court tell that the Dixon standards did not require this opportunity and that the Supreme Court did not open the rule of Dixon, indeed the students had received more than the Constitution requires even though in almost every setting where important decisions turn on questions of fact, due process requires an opportunity to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses.The Eleventh round in its decisions repeated the District Courts explanation for constrictive the right of cross-examination.Landry maintains that the dean of students is biased against him because of statements the dean has made to the effect that Landry is a menace and should be removed from the university. Is Landrys objection allowable? Yes, familiarity whitethorn breed contempt rather than friendship, in a closed environment, in which accuser and impeach ar very often acquainted cross-examination is the better bureau to expose bias or enmity, if either exists.Knowing that he may face tough questioning a potential accuser may vacillate to report mis fetch on mere suspicion. Such caution fuck only improve the reliability of any accusation and as with any other procedural safeguards that have generated plausible concerns, the right of confrontation seems not to have caused systemic breakdown at the numerous schools permitting cross-examination.Put simply, the accused student fails to receive fair treatment when members of the panel alone are allowed to confront the witness. Th e civil law parallel of the inquiring magistrate assumes an experienced examiner, who is already well-informed about the matter from the investigatory report. The typical disciplinary panel consists of students and faculty members, usually their first attendance at a hearing and unfamiliar with the events triggering the charge, and unlikely to have within the group a trained interrogator.Would it make any difference to Landry if the university in question were a personal rather than a public university? Yes, in private school cases, courts have refused to venture beyond these narrow constitutional bounds. In the few account decisions assessing the students right to confront an opposing witness, the courts have denied that the right existed.For reasoning the schools lead off their argument by asserting that qualify is an integral part of the learning experience and that teachers, not courts, should determine how best to design a students education. This is kind of a regression to the in loco parentis view of higher education. Absent of excessive sensible force or neglect, parents may discipline children in any way the thing will be effective, even if experts would strongly disagree with their choice.By analogy, colleges as surrogate parents should enjoy the same latitude in deciding how to impose discipline upon their student, Children. Even if modern educators no longer stick out such a surrogate role, many teachers still view the endeavor of the disciplinary process as enlightening and inducing better conduct by the accused student, not as requiring the accuser to prove that misconduct occurred. Adherents of this position contend that once the disciplinary procedure become confrontational, it loses its educational value. Works CitedCarper, Donald L., et al. Understanding the Law 5th. Ed. Mason, Ohio Thomson/West, 2008.