AUSTIN -- Texas' highest criminal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated the 2015 sexual assault conviction of a former Baylor University football player whose case ignited a scandal that engulfed the nation's largest Baptist school.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said a lower court erred by overturning the conviction of Sam Ukwuachu based on text messages between the victim and a friend that had not been allowed in trial.
The trial court only allowed into evidence texts the woman sent after the assault, in which she told a friend she had been raped. Ukwuachu's attorney argued earlier text messages exchanged between the woman and her friend would show the woman consented to sex.