This guy appears to have been informally proven innocent, so he's good, more or less. Nate's lawyers were successful in convincing the jury, but the "evidence" that the public got a hold of last year made him seem like a grade-A asshole jock. It's a short leap from that to "probable rapist". That's the price Nate had and has to pay for staying out of jail. PLUS the girl killed herself years later, which is a fact that was not placed in Nate's plus column. Without proof of his innocence, he won't be able to escape that.