Marissa

I was somebody that they were responsible to.

As we continued on with the University of Utah, that's when we started depositions.

A deposition is basically when the opposing side gets to take your statement.

It's recorded and they try to ask you questions, but your lawyer is there and your lawyer can object to questions that are asked, but you still have to answer them.

And that's just later for court.

where they can comment that they already objected to that question that was asked.

So I had a deposition with a lawyer for the University of Utah.

There were two other people there who were higher up at the U. And I had my lawyer there and assistant advocate

It was hours long.

When I was deposed, I was nervous because I felt like they were going to try to use my words against me.

Luckily, I had really good lawyers and they prepared me really well.

During my deposition, they were trying to make the point that I wasn't a student there and that their responsibility was not mine.

To me, I tried to make it clear to them that there were so many things that I did on that campus.

And also the bigger picture that this person was not safe on their campus and they really didn't care.

So going through that deposition obviously was hard because it brings up old feelings.

Preparing for it too is hard because you have to go through everything.

You have to remember things that a traumatized brain tries to understand.

delete so I think that that made it really hard but I do feel like that I was as prepared as I could be and my lawyers were really good at helping me they were really good at objecting when they needed to so that was really helpful

So I had that deposition and I felt pretty good about it.

And then they also deposed my friend who was with me at the Title IX meeting with the University of Utah.