The sexual assault conviction against former Baylor football player Sam Ukwuachu has been overturned by Texas’s 10th Court of Appeals. The court also ruled that Ukwuachu be given a new trial.
Ukwuachu was convicted in August 2015 of sexually assaulting a former Baylor women’s soccer player in 2013. He was sentenced to six months in jail and 10 years probation but served only two months in jail before a judge granted him bail pending the result of his appeal.
The appeals court ruled that Ukwuachu’s be overturned because text messages between the victim and a friend of hers on the night of the alleged assault were improperly excluded from evidence.