Virginia Tech safety C.J. Reavis has lost his appeal of a student conduct decision and remains dismissed from the program.
Reavis was informed Tuesday that his written appeal had failed, according to Andy Bitter of The Roanoke Times.
He was dismissed from the school in July after being brought forward to a student conduct hearing for an unspecified violation.
Reavis's lawyer, Jimmy Turk, wouldn't disclose what the hearing was centered on, but stressed that Reavis hadn't been charged criminally.
"The commonwealth’s attorney wouldn’t touch this with a 10-foot pole," Turk said of the violation. "I feel very confident in telling you that under no circumstances would a prosecutor even remotely consider anything that these allegations involve. Not at all."
The lawyer slammed the school's disciplinary process, calling the whole controversy the "most tragic set of circumstances" he had ever seen imposed on someone during the course of his 30-year legal career.
Those circumstances, he said, are "completely unwarranted."
"My recommendation for him is to not sit back idly and let anybody walk over him like the university has done under these circumstances," Turk said of Reavis.
Virginia Tech's athletic department provided no further comment on the matter.
