E. TRIAL

Purpose: Like the Investigative Panel, the trial exists to determine if the student committed the alleged honor offense. The structure of the trial differs, however, from that of the Investigative Panel.

1. Students have a right to be assisted by counsel at trial. They may choose one of the two counsel involved in the initial investigation, or they may choose someone else to fulfill that role. Only University of Virginia students may serve in this capacity.

2. Students must notify the Vice Chair for Trials of the name(s) of their chosen counsel within seven days of their request for trial. Should they fail to do so, counsel will be assigned from the Honor Committee counsel pool.

3. If the accused student chooses one of the investigating counsel, the other investigating counsel is assigned to serve the interests of the Honor System.

4. The accused student may choose one of three panel types:

a. a mixed panel of Honor Committee members and randomly selected students,

b. a panel of only Honor Committee members, or

c. a panel of only randomly selected students.

5. The accused student has the right to choose a trial that is either open or closed to the public.

6. When requesting a trial, accused students must inform the Vice Chair for Trials about which type of trial panel they want, their choice of counsel, whether they want their trial open or closed to the public and if they choose to have at least four members of the panel selected from either the undergraduate (if the accused is an undergraduate student) or graduate (if the accused is a graduate student) schools.

7. Unless the pre-trial conference determines that extraordinary circumstances exist, the trial must convene at the next available trial date subsequent to the request for trial by the accused student.