Ex-Baylor player Sam Ukwuachu’s sexual assault conviction overturned on appeal

The sexual assault conviction against former Baylor football player Sam Ukwuachu has been overturned by Texas’s 10th Court of Appeals. The court also ruled that Ukwuachu be given a new trial.

Ukwuachu was convicted in August 2015 of sexually assaulting a former Baylor women’s soccer player in 2013. He was sentenced to six months in jail and 10 years probation but served only two months in jail before a judge granted him bail pending the result of his appeal.

The appeals court ruled that Ukwuachu’s be overturned because text messages between the victim and a friend of hers on the night of the alleged assault were improperly excluded from evidence. Ukwuachu claims the texts show that he had…