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Ex-UNC Basketball Player Jalek Felton Expelled for Sexual Assault, Records Show

Jalek Felton, a former basketball player for the University of North Carolina, was expelled for sexual assault, according to records released by the school on Thursday.

Originally, UNC had announced that Felton was suspended in spring of 2018, before Kerry Sutton, his attorney, claimed on Twitter that he withdrew from the university on Mar. 1, 2018.

The 6-foot-3 guard was found to have violated UNC's policies on sexual violence or sexual assault. Felton was expelled from the UNC System, ordered to have no contact with the individual who filed the complaint and was banned from campus for four years, reported UNC's student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel and the News & Observer.