The State - News from May 9, 1988

For the first time since acquaintance rape, commonly known as “date rape,” became a major issue on the UC Berkeley campus, a student has been convicted of charges stemming from such an offense. Michael P. McCoy, 22, a social science major who forced sexual touching on a female student whom he walked home from a party, pleaded no contest to sexual battery charges and faces a maximum one-year jail term. He agreed to plead no contest to the lesser charge in exchange for having a rape charge, which carries a minimum 16-month state prison term, dropped.