CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield November 21, 2015 18:50:00
Most schools don't need to notify police. >> i didn't really know what to effect. i thought it would be fair. >> reporter: but the student says it wasn't fair. he was allowed to bring a lawyer, but the lawyer couldn't speak and could only submit questions for the accuser in writing. >> we had a set of questions, 32 total, handed to the hearing officer, and then she started to skip questions and started to say, well, i'm not going to ask that. she wouldn't say why. >> had you ever seen anything like that before in a court hearing? >> no. it just doesn't happen. >> reporter: that's because unlik...