{"id":371198,"date":"2026-10-12T18:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371198\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:56:11","slug":"complaint-wants-n-y-ag-james-off-alleged-cornell-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371198\/","title":{"rendered":"Complaint wants N.Y. AG James off alleged Cornell rape case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Legal and Policy Center says state Attorney General Letitia James should not serve as special prosecutor in the alleged rape case at Cornell University.<\/p>\n<p>The group filed a complaint with the Attorney Grievance Committee over James&#8217; comments before she was appointed. They say she&#8217;s &#8220;violating the rules of professional conduct by making public statements about the Cornell University sexual assault case that exhibits a bias in favor of the victim\u2019s allegations and against the alleged perpetrators.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum News 1 has reached out to the attorney general for response.<\/p>\n<p>A then-Cornell student known now as Jane Doe alleges in a lawsuit she was raped by several current and former students at a Cornell fraternity in 2024. James was appointed by Gov. Kathy Hochul to be a special prosecutor in this case, saying she &#8220;lost confidence&#8221; in Tompkins County DA Matthew Van Houten in the case. He said Jane Doe&#8217;s original statement in 2024 did not indicate violation of criminal law.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, one of the defendants in the case <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/news\/2026\/10\/08\/defendant-in-cornell-case-petitions-to-block-ag-as-special-prosecutor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed a petition to block<\/a> Gov. Hochul&#8217;s appointment of James as special prosecutor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Legal and Policy Center says state Attorney General Letitia James should not serve as special prosecutor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[257,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,87,380],"class_list":["post-371198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-central-ny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}