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New York governor appoints special prosecutor in Cornell sexual assault case

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday appointed the state’s Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor to investigate the sexual assault case at Cornell University.

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Moira Penza, a former federal prosecutor who has worked on sexual assault cases in New York.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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