{"id":17124,"date":"2016-02-23T20:59:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T04:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/ex-uaf-hockey-player-acquitted-in-sexual-assault-case\/"},"modified":"2016-02-23T20:59:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T04:59:11","slug":"ex-uaf-hockey-player-acquitted-in-sexual-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/ex-uaf-hockey-player-acquitted-in-sexual-assault-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UAF hockey player acquitted in sexual assault case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 A former University of Alaska Fairbanks hockey player was found not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan Youngmun, 24, of Anchorage had been charged with first- and second- degree sexual assault after the woman claimed he raped her in an on-campus apartment last year. Youngmun was cleared of both charges Monday, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors had argued that Youngmun entered the woman\u2019s room naked, woke and sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n<p>William Ingaldson, Youngmun\u2019s attorney, countered that the woman was inconsistent in her accounts to authorities and university police were too quick to blame Youngmun.<\/p>\n<p>Youngmun is still facing a sexual assault charge in another incident in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Youngmun played for the Nanooks hockey team at the time. He ended his four-year college hockey career with the team at the end of his senior year in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 A former University of Alaska Fairbanks hockey player was found not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on campus. Nolan Youngmun, 24, of Anchorage had been charged with first- and second- degree sexual assault after the woman claimed he raped her in an on-campus apartment last year. Youngmun was cleared of both charges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17124"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}