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Former Cornell fraternity member asks court to remove AG Letitia James as prosecutor

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Covered by 3 outlets, mostly right-leaning (67%).

4 articles in total. The spectrum counts each outlet once and leaves opinion out. How we measure bias

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Just the News, NBC News and the Daily Mail report that a lawyer for Gillio Lopes, one of seven former Cornell fraternity members accused in a civil lawsuit by a student identified as Jane Doe, asked a state judge to remove Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor. The petition says James is biased, citing a social media post she made before her appointment, which the outlets quote as saying what the young woman had endured was “horrific and unacceptable.” The judge was due to hear arguments on Thursday in Sullivan County. The outlets say Lopes has denied sexually assaulting the plaintiff.

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Gillio Lopes’s lawyers asked a state judge to remove Letitia James as special prosecutor in the civil case brought by the plaintiff.
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Lopes’s lawyers argue that a social media post James published before her appointment shows bias against the defendants.
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James posted on X that what the young woman had been forced to endure was “horrific and unacceptable.”
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Governor Kathy Hochul took the case from a local prosecutor who declined to bring criminal charges in 2024 and gave it to James as special prosecutor.
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The judge was scheduled to hear arguments on the removal request on Thursday in Sullivan County.
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Lopes has denied sexually assaulting the plaintiff.
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James’s post treated the plaintiff’s allegations as established fact.
The Daily Mail says the post affirmed the allegations as fact and called the plaintiff a survivor; NBC News quotes the post’s expressions of sympathy and support without describing it as a finding.
James’s social media post shows bias against the defendants.
Lopes’s lawyers argue the post shows bias and a presumption of guilt; the articles do not give a response from James’s office.

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Both sides report that Gillio Lopes’s lawyers asked a judge to remove Letitia James as special prosecutor over her posts about the plaintiff. The left-side report frames it as a challenge to her fitness for the role; the right-side reports center her statements, and the Daily Mail labels her woke.

the left
1 outlet
Left-side headline presents the filing as lawyers arguing James is not viable as prosecutor, quoting her post but leaving the bias argument to the lawyers.
Lawyers fighting NY AG’s role in Cornell assault investigation say she is not ‘viable’ as prosecutor
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the center
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No center outlet that Mantle follows has covered this story yet. That absence is part of the picture.
the right
2 outlets
Right-side headlines center on James’s statements and the bid to remove her, with Far Right Just the News framing around her social media posts and the Daily Mail adding “woke”.
Cornell 7 accused student will try and get Loaded modifier“woke”The label “woke” attached to James pre-judges her political views rather than describing her role in the case.More neutral: Attorney General Letitia JamesDisagree with this highlight? AG Letitia James taken off case today after she stated gang rape accusations Absolutist framing“as fact”The phrase presents the outlet’s reading of James’s statement as settled, though the statement is a contested point in the case.More neutral: after she posted support for the plaintiffDisagree with this highlight?
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In the outlets’ own words

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wokeMore neutral: Attorney General Letitia James
The label “woke” attached to James pre-judges her political views rather than describing her role in the case.
Cornell 7 accused student will try and get woke AG Letitia James taken off case today after she stated gang rape accusations as fact
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Absolutist framing
as factMore neutral: after she posted support for the plaintiff
The phrase presents the outlet’s reading of James’s statement as settled, though the statement is a contested point in the case.
…woke AG Letitia James taken off case today after she stated gang rape accusations as fact
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From the left

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lawyers argue James is biased
James’s post on the plaintiff
her viability as special prosecutor

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NBC NewsLeft
Lawyers fighting NY AG’s role in Cornell assault investigation say she is not ‘viable’ as prosecutor
Lawyers for one of seven former Cornell fraternity members accused in a high-profile sexual assault suit argued in court that Letitia James should be removed as prosecutor.
2 hr agoRead at NBC News (opens in a new tab)

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0 outlets

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From the right

2 outlets

Leads with

James’s social media posts
her removal as special prosecutor
“woke” label and claim she stated accusations as fact

Leaves out

Lopes’s denial of the allegations

Reported by other sides, not found in this side’s coverage.

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Daily MailRight
Cornell 7 accused student will try and get Loaded modifier“woke”The label “woke” attached to James pre-judges her political views rather than describing her role in the case.More neutral: Attorney General Letitia JamesDisagree with this highlight? AG Letitia James taken off case today after she stated gang rape accusations Absolutist framing“as fact”The phrase presents the outlet’s reading of James’s statement as settled, though the statement is a contested point in the case.More neutral: after she posted support for the plaintiffDisagree with this highlight?
Gillio Lopes, one of seven Alpha Chi fraternity brothers accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a party in October 2024, has accused James of bias in the high-profile case.
2 hr agoRead at Daily Mail (opens in a new tab)
Just the NewsFar Right
Judge in Cornell rape case to consider request to remove Letitia James over social media posts
Andrew Miltenberg, an attorney for one of the accused, is asking Judge James R. Farrell to order New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to appoint a special prosecutor “who is free from actual or perceived conflicts of interest or bias."
20 hr agoRead at Just the News (opens in a new tab)
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- Judge in Cornell rape case to consider request to remove Letitia James over social media posts

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Former Cornell fraternity member asks court to remove AG Letitia James as prosecutor

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From the left

Lawyers fighting NY AG’s role in Cornell assault investigation say she is not ‘viable’ as prosecutor

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Judge in Cornell rape case to consider request to remove Letitia James over social media posts

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