event, Diana was refused permission to enter the evidence she
had that would have shown that Anuse was biased.

Next, Diana reviewed the poor performance given by the document
examiner. "He testified that he could not make a decision on the first
set of exemplars sent him. Then when he was sent twenty years' worth
of documents containing the handwriting of multiple individuals, he
claimed that he disregarded most of it." She went over all of the
individual letters in the 'suspect' evaluations that Avery had not been
able to match with anything in the writing he used as standards. "This
shows that there were as many non-matches as matches in his
presentation."

The panel listened passively, then Henry asked if that was her final
statement.

"No," she answered. "I shall read that now." She picked up the paper
which had been written mostly by her attorney and edited by her. It
was designed to get the legal points on the record so that they could
be presented later in a court of law.

"We are at the end of another hearing and it is a grim page in the
rights of faculty members of this university. I have been tried by a
committee which is chaired by the prosecuting official. He has
reopened proceedings, engaged in ex parte communications, received
legal advice from the prosecution's lawyer and denied me the
opportunity to even examine the evidence against me.

"A faculty member at any state college, and indeed, a mail room
employee in the state Motor Vehicle Department would have more rights
than you have given me."

Henry tuned her out. All this legal stuff, he thought, is just to give
her attorney crap to fill a brief. Murrain had told him this would
probably happen. Now, what's this? Alertly, Henry listened.

"There are strong reasons to believe this panel has operated in
violation of my state and federal rights. If this committee does not
end this unfortunate proceeding, the U.S. District Court will finally
have to determine these issues.

"This committee, at the last hearing, made several promises to me and I
was fool enough to believe them. It said that it would issue a
decision within a few weeks; instead, it launched a new investigation
of its own without my knowledge or participation which consumed over
half a year. Second, this committee assured me that I would not be
affected by these charges as I continued my teaching assignments in the
department. 'Go back to work,' you all assured me