Allegations:
Huffman was hosting a meeting in his office when two officers with the Chicago Police Fugitive Apprehension Unit interrupted and asked him to step outside. Officers told Huffman that he was under arrest for touching a hostess without her consent at a restaurant where he had been the host of a gathering for a local business school two weeks earlier. Huffman was taken into custody, held for several hours and told that he was going to face criminal sexual assault charges. Except for the fact that both Huffman and the suspect were African-American men, Huffman did not match the hostess' description of the man who inappropriately touched her. A prosecutor reviewed the officers' information and approved a misdemeanor battery charge against Huffman. Huffman spent the next year defending against the battery charge and in the process, incurred over $120,000 worth of legal fees. Huffman was acquitted after a trial.