Jennings v. City of Stillwater

McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Alison Jennings claims that members of the Stillwater, Oklahoma Police Department (the “Defendants”) violated her constitutional rights by failing to adequately investigate an alleged rape and by discouraging her from pursuing prosecutions of the alleged assailants. The underlying facts stem from a sexual encounter between Ms. Jennings, then an Oklahoma State University (“OSU”) student, and Alvin Porter, J.B. Flowers, Evan Howell and Marcellus Rivers, four members of the OSU football team whom we will refer to, for convenience, as the “football players.” The…