Sunny Hostin, co-host of American talk show The View, defended the initial decision not to charge seven Cornell University fraternity members accused of gang raping a student, saying on the show that the allegations have been presented without enough attention to the legal circumstances surrounding the original investigation.
A former federal prosecutor, Hostin said the allegations should be examined alongside the woman's initial account to authorities. She said that details in that statement did not, in her view, establish a sufficient basis for criminal charges under New York law at the time, while stressing that the accused men have not been convicted of any crime.
