After deliberating for about two hours Thursday, a Texas jury found former Baylor defensive end Shawn Oakman not guilty of raping a graduate student at … My life was officially over as I knew it.”His journey had started on his knees screaming his innocence in a jail cell and ended on his knees rejoicing in that innocence in judge's chambers.“I wasn’t going to open myself up again to be accused of, or doing anything wrong,” Oakman said. So that day, I had also tackled the quarterback and made another dumb play. Only thing I can do is put it in the hands that I know." Where he is now, and where he wants to go. I wasn’t in that partying scene on campus.Oakman's life was in a holding pattern.He unleashed a primal, guttural scream “How?” “Why?” at the top of his lungs, then thrust himself up against the cell’s concrete walls. “I always knew I was innocent,” he says.Oakman’s situation was settled in that courtroom.As soon as he was acquitted, Oakman was approached by Straight Jacket USA as an endorser. He first worked in a warehouse packing diapers at $11 per hour for 10 hours a day. “I noticed she left an earring on the arm of my bedroom sofa. I’ll never be the same ... On social media, all of these people were calling me a rapist, even though I was found innocent. For three years of my life, I was stuck in 2016.
He has new representation with agent George Bass.After packing diapers, he worked for a landscape fabric fertilizer company. He would watch TV with co-workers at lunchtime and his name would be mentioned along with words like “rape” and “sexual assault.”Oakman didn’t even plan on going out that night with his friends. People still call me a rapist.
They asked him if he had sex with the woman. she asked, according to court transcripts. He signed with Bass, another Baylor graduate who once represented Hall of Famer Michael Irvin. That was stay home. I could have taken a plea (which did not include him having to register as a sex offender) and probation, but I didn’t, because I knew I didn’t do anything wrong.Asked to describe its relationship with Oakman, Baylor replied via email through a university spokesman: “Baylor does not have a relationship with Mr. Oakman.”Nineteen months later, his whole life flipped.The woman who would accuse Oakman had sent him a text earlier that day to see if he was in Waco. I’m more cautious.
“I was headline news for a week. It’s the one fear I always had. Contact him directly by emailing mark.perry@xflnewshub.com“It was on the field, but it was deeper than that. It was something new to me. He was supposed to go to Dallas, but that trip never materialized.“Every day of that, I mean every day, I couldn’t get away from it,” Oakman says today. (Starr, the independent counsel whose investigation resulted in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998, was fired by Baylor in May 2016 after the Board of Regents conducted an external review of the university's response to reports of sexual violence. Oakman's supporters cheered in … You get pissed off when people point fingers who don’t know the truth. The only theory we could come up with was that she knew Shawn was about to have a promising career and she wanted to cash in on that," he said. Instead, the 6-foot-8, 280-pound defensive end was in a Waco townhouse, waiting for a phone call from an interested team.“What was her motivation? We talk from...Copyright © 2020 XFL News Hub. Going out now I have to move like the pope. In a wide-ranging interview with Cynthia Conte. He’s pleasant, funny, engaging, though there are fits of frustration, which is natural after being accused of something you know you didn’t do and having your life put on hold, while people who you thought were friends stepped away.Under these relentless rays, Shawn Oakman works, knowing he should be burning, grunting and sweating somewhere else.
Almost three years after being indicted on second-degree sexual assault charges, former Baylor defensive end Shawn Oakman was acquitted by jurors in Waco’s 19th State District Court yesterday. I should have just stuck to the things I did when I was in Waco. Around 280 pounds again, he's almost close to “Baylor Shawn.” He’s spending his time training and hoping to be contacted by an NFL team.Bennett said he'd never seen a reaction like it in almost 30 years of practicing law.The woman also claimed there was no oral sex, but an expert testified that she had semen DNA in her mouth, taken from the sample swab in the rape kit.“If there is one gift I got out of this, I guess, is that I do have a greater understanding of what freedom is,” Oakman said. No one is going to say anything to my face. All of that partying and bulls**t I did at Penn State, that all went [away]. Being dead or in prison by the age of 30 was always his worst fear.“Believe it or not, I’m not angry," Oakman said. Oakman is looking to get licensed as a personal trainer.“Most everybody turned their backs on me. Our exclusive interview with former DC Defenders Team President Erik Moses. “They used me until they couldn’t use me anymore. “This all could have ended years ago. Oakman said he did so well, his manager introduced him to one of the company honchos, who then researched Oakman and let him go.Less than two weeks after that fateful night at the off-campus bar, Oakman heard for the first time the eerie metallic clang of iron prison doors.On February 28, he was found not guilty of all charges by a jury after two hours of deliberations.A joyous Shawn Oakman descends the steps of the McLennan County Courthouse on the day of the verdict.
But I felt like an animal in a cage.”“I couldn’t keep a job,” Oakman said.