In the interest of transparency, I am sharing all of the evidence and testimony that Quais and I each submitted over the course of both investigations. Note that there are redactions to some of the names, addresses, ID numbers, etc. that aren’t material to the case. Some of the holes I’ve poked in his story (and other contextual commentary) are attached as comments to the documents directly instead of argued below, so make sure to check for those if you’re viewing on mobile.

For the employee investigation, I’ve created a replica of my original evidence folder that Allan Williams, the OIE investigator, failed to save. Quais’s evidence is in here as well– five photos within the police report folder– as those were the only evidence files he’d submitted in the employee case. My own evidence files outside of that report were watermarked when I resubmitted them to OSU for the student investigation (and have remained watermarked for all subsequent sharing, including on this website), so that OSU can’t pretend they had saved my evidence after all.

For the student investigation, I’ve created a replica of the digital case file that investigator Courtney Johnson had maintained. It includes screenshots of the original file trees and the content listed within each folder, so anyone can compare the file numbers to see that I didn't exclude anything (except for the sex quiz, to be explained later).

And these are the investigative report conclusions, key correspondences to and from OIE, rebuttals, and any other informative case files.

1. Patterns of Behavior
   The most essential and obvious evidence in this case is pattern evidence [as seen throughout A Portrait of Abuse]. Before and even after this incident, including literally the night before on March 22nd, Quais Hassan was caught on video illegally holding me captive for selfish interpersonal reasons while I was acting perfectly sane. Why would we have suddenly flipped personalities on March 23rd? Why would I have suddenly lost my sanity and attacked someone, a behavior no one has witnessed from me before or since?
   Like,
   
   Which One of Us is Breaking this Door Down and Screaming?
   I can't believe this was ever up for debate. I really can't.
2. The Photo Record
   During the altercation, Quais started taking photos of his injuries moments after they were inflicted. But he didn’t stop to think about how he was also documenting his false imprisonment and my struggle to escape in real time. The first set of photos submitted to the police (and indirectly to the employee investigation) revealed my phone tucked away in Quais’s other hand as I reached for it, and him refusing to let me have my phone doesn’t make sense if I was free to leave. And when he submitted even more photos for the student investigation, I asked the investigator to show me the timestamps (down to the second!), which paint a story even more clearly.
   A duo of photos taken early on show my bag still over my shoulder as I was prepared to leave, and he grabs my wrist and pulls me toward him. My stance, especially the knocked knees and small step distance, shows that this is a pull, not a lunge.
   
   

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   I had bitten his arm during a chokehold on the floor and wiggled out of it, before disengaging and standing up. I whipped out my phone, and less than a minute later, we were disengaging on the floor again, his arm bearing another bite mark and my phone in his hand. Who do you think lunged at who to get that phone? Furthermore, to discourage me from standing back up while his attention was divided taking more arm photos, he placed his legs over my lap like a paperweight.
   
   
   Proof That's My Phone

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   After I’ve given up trying to escape him and am nursing my injured knee at my desk, he’s still there, making sure I don’t leave me while texting his friend to set up a phone call.
   
   

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   And for the record, when he photographed his arm again a few hours later at the Police Station, the indentations had disappeared, leaving faint marks. Meanwhile, I was limping for weeks from my torn MCL.
   
   MCL Documentation

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   Every single photo Quais took during the altercation and every photo I took after my knee was injured shows me backed against the corner and him planted in front of me. Every one.
3. The Types and Positions of Our Injuries
   1. Doe’s Sprained Medial Collateral Ligament
      Scientific literature on MCL injuries supports that they are almost always sustained from a twisting motion or an impact to the outer knee. They do not simply occur from walking, and the injury is instead consistent with me twisting back and forth to get away from him as he had my arms pinned from behind.
      
   2. Quais's Bite Marks
      My dental records (from Candid Co) show that my bottom teeth are crooked, and establish the orientation of the bite marks. The only possible way I could have possibly inflicted a bite mark upright on his inner forearm would be from an upright position between his arm and torso— as if his arms were wrapped around me from behind, correct?
      

      
4. No one else that had interacted with me on March 23rd, 2020 could corroborate Quais’s claim that I was acting unhinged. Not:
   1. Our supervisor (“Witness 1”)
   2. The anonymized coworker that had been in our company until an hour or two before the incident.
      
      • The coworker didn’t remember if they were there that day when interviewed over a year later, and fair enough. I found texts afterward showing that they were. But in either case, they would have been more likely to remember that day if I had done something unhinged that day, and they later signed a letter of support attesting to both of our professional conduct.
        
        Texts with Co-Worker Letter from Co-Workers
   3. My friend (Aaron), that I texted and met with immediately after the altercation.
   4. Quais’s friend (“Student A”), that I spoke on the phone with immediately after the altercation.
      
      • He had responded to a leading question by the investigator that I “did sound a bit hysterical,” but when asked to clarify during the hearing, that was just in reference to the fact that I was crying. The content of my speech was rational and organized.
   5. Officer Colley, the police officer that I spoke to immediately after the altercation when filing my police report.
   6. Officer Carlos Velez, the police officer that conducted a well-check on me a few hours after the altercation and explicitly determined that I was fine.
5. Character Witnesses:
   For the investigation, I submitted diverse testimony as to my character (plus general concern about the situation) from my recent ex-boyfriend, my psychiatrist (to defend against Quais’s claims that I’m unstable or violent), and the Student Body President and Vice President that I had recently worked with. The testimony from my ex was particularly pertinent: I was far more serious with him than I ever was with Quais, dating for three years and living together and coparenting a dog for two of those years. There was ample opportunity for abusive or violent tendencies to emerge, but the relationship was very healthy and wholesome-- we never so much as raised our voices at each other. Since my relationship with Quais not only bordered, but overlapped my open relationship with this ex, one wouldn’t expect me to become a radically different person.
   
   Letter from Psychiatrist Letter from Former Partner Letter from President & VP
   Quais only submitted testimony from people that knew him in professional contexts—a counselor employed by his school/employer to coach medical students about limited struggles, and three friends in his PhD cohort. I am giving them the benefit of the doubt that they’re being honest in their impressions, because there is no way that he would show the darkest sides of himself to professional contacts; selectively reserving abusive displays for victims with less power is definitionally how abusers operate. A counselor’s testimony that he completed a graded “Lead, Serve, Inspire” curriculum and colleagues’ testimony that he’s an attentive and helpful researcher are practically worthless in determining if someone’s an abuser behind closed doors.
   
   Quais's Letters
   I’m reasonably sure that he discussed some of his own abusive behaviors with a member of his personal/ADHD care team—either a psychologist or psychiatrist or both— since he reported some of those sessions back to me during our relationship. Him trying to work through his anger/control issues with a care team as well as with me was a key reason I stayed with him for so long. But he did not submit a witness statement from anyone in this care team familiar with these issues.
   And even more glaringly, he’d told me that he had five or six former official girlfriends, as well as a serious affair at his former workplace. So why were none of his exes willing or able to corroborate that he wasn’t an abusive partner?

In the student investigation, we were allowed to “object” to the relevance/admissibility of the other party’s evidence/testimony files, and then “rebut” the objections the other party made to our own evidence. The adjudicator considered those arguments before making a ruling prior to the hearing; the expectation was that we could not discuss any discarded evidence in the hearing, and he could not rely on it in his final determination of responsibility.

So here we go, this is everything Quais submitted to prove that I’m a violent and unstable person:

1. Quais’s story changes over time, after seeing the evidence/arguments I submitted.
   
   1. He constantly alternates between claiming that he was never trapping me in the lab against my will (and only hugged me in self-defense after I had just attacked him out of nowhere) and saying that he was restraining me, but only to selflessly prevent me from hurting myself. But the frequency of each argument shifts toward the latter more often over time, after he realized how clearly the above evidence demonstrates him trapping me.
      [Whereas my accounting of March 23rd has never once changed, from the police report I filed that night and the email I sent to our supervisor the following day through now.]
   2. He also gets more dramatic over time in his description of my alleged kamikaze behavior. He’d told the first investigator that he’d just had a hunch that I was in a bad headspace, but by the time of the second investigation’s hearing, he was insistent that I’d used the phrase, “I’m suicidal and homicidal and right now you’re in my way” and charged at him. [A bit of a strange sentence for anyone to say, even suicidal and/or homicidal people.]
2. Most of his key claims don’t even make sense in isolation.
   
   1. He claims repeatedly that I attacked him out of nowhere and he started hugging me in self-defense. In general, hugging someone in self-defense is not a thing. It’s just not. If you are powerful enough to successfully bear-hug someone and impede the range of motion of all of their limbs at once, you’re powerful enough to run away from them.
   2. Hugging someone in self-defense to protect yourself from them stomping on your feet is even less of a thing. You are literally moving your feet closer to their feet.
   3. “[Doe] had threatened to tell others that I had thrown her to cause the injury and that she stated that others would believe her because [Doe] is a woman and I am a man.”
      
      See Page 9
      What in the FOX News is this?
3. His Testimony That I Was Doing the Experiment Wrong is WIldly Embellished.
   I talk about the first argument Quais and I had in a little more in my initial testimony document, and while I doubt many of you will care about the minutiae of our work, it’s relevant because he later used it to claim that I was acting crazy.
   Finishing the experiment on 3/23 involved a “sacrifice” of mice - killing and dissecting them to analyze their tissues. Mice are kept on a pile of ice after being euthanized and before being dissected. The ice had melted quite a bit, but since I was almost done, I balanced the few remaining carcasses on the lip of the ice bucket to prevent them from sinking. Best practice would have been to refill the ice bucket down the hall and keep them on ice for those last few minutes, but it also wasn’t a big deal— since I’d been left to do the work of multiple people, several hours had passed after these mice were initially euthanized, and the remaining tissues of interest had already lost most of the relevant bioactivity that placement on ice is meant to preserve. I was mostly dissecting these tissues to measure their weight at this point, and I placed any organs that I’d weighed but didn’t intend to keep neatly back in their host mouse. Plenty of biologists have been there.
   When Quais came into the room, he accidentally knocked a mouse over and reflexively dunked his hand into ice water to retrieve the liver that fell out. At that point, he started shouting and interrogating me about why I’d placed the mouse there. It was never about my mental health— just his anger issues after having an ice water mishap.
   Furthermore, as one of our coworkers testified in an interview with Courtney Johnson, I trained them at the tissue dissection in question. In fact, I trained everyone that joined the lab after me at how this lab dissects tissues, Quais included. It was immensely frustrating when the student hearing adjudicator cut off my ability to confirm these things when cross-examining our supervisor, but he hadn’t seen the documents where Quais claimed earlier that the way I was doing the experiment reflected a severely declined mental state.
   
   
   You would think, based on Quais’s description, that he had walked in on me dunking the bucket of water over my head instead of leaving the discarded mice in a bad spot on the counter. This extreme exaggeration of my corner-cutting as being crazy relies on most readers not knowing anything about mouse dissection. So I’ll let you be the judge of that now that you have more context.

Off the top of my head, Quais went through at least four separate attorneys throughout the internal investigations. They kept dropping him as the evidence kept piling up.