A private school teacher has been acquitted of the most serious charges against him in a set of sexual assault cases brought prosecutors on behalf of three of his former students. One of the young girls accused him of raping her as he drove her home from school in his car on "one snowy day" in February 2005. Here's The Sun's story of the acquittal.

The alleged crime took place on Feb. 23, according to prosecutors. But the teacher's attorney, seeking to undermine the girl's credibility,  argued during his closing that on Feb. 23, 2005 "it simply was not snowing" in Baltimore. And he was right. There was no snow that day. It never got cold enough to snow.

But the next day? Temperatures on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005 dropped into the 20s and it snowed quite a bit, with more than 5 inches accumulating at BWI. In fact, it snowed nearly all day, the snowiest day of that entire winter. Was the girl's story bogus? Or was she simply confused about the date?

Sun reporter Julie Bykowicz, who covered the trial, says, "School was closed on the 24th and 25th, so everyone (police, defense attorneys, etc) determined the only possible date this could have happened was the 23rd.