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Exclusive: Brown University Student Speaks Out on What It’s Like to Be Accused of Rape

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In April, Daniel Kopin was publicly accused of sexually assaulting his classmate. For the first time, he tells his side of the story.

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“We were friends.”

Over the course of a nearly two-hour conversation, Daniel Kopin returns to this point again and again. Ten months after an evening that irrevocably changed two young people’s lives, Kopin, a 21-year-old former Brown University student, still sounds genuinely shaken as he recounts his reaction to an August...

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