Former CCSU Student Can't Get Over Cheating Accusation, Goes to Court

He just can’t give it up. A former CCSU student is going to court, claiming that he was wrongfully accused to cheating on a paper. The student, Matthew Coster, is not suing his professor though. Rather, he’s suing the other student, Christina Duquette, for allegedly cheating off of his paper.

The Hartford Courant reports:

A Central Connecticut State University student who was expelled after being accused of plagiarizing another student's term paper has gone to court seeking to clear his name.

 

Testimony in Matthew Coster's case began Tuesday in Waterbury Superior Court. He's suing the other student, Christina Duquette, claiming she copied his term paper on the Holocaust and not the other way around.

 

Coster was expelled in 2006 after his Western civilization professor and CCSU officials found that he had cheated.

 

The lawsuit seeks a ruling by Judge Jane Scholl that Coster did not cheat and an unspecified amount of money for legal costs…

Duquette, who graduated last May, said she also put a term paper in Moss' mailbox before the deadline.

Coster, a New Milford native, attends Naugatuck Valley Community College. After leaving CCSU, he applied to the University of Connecticut but was rejected. He believes the expulsion was the reason.

Who cheated? Who knows? At this point, however, why bother? Duqette’s already graduated. Maybe it’s time that Coster get over the fact that he wasn’t a good enough student to get into UConn and realize he ought to focus on his schoolwork instead maybe-plagiarized papers.