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The future of Florida State’s Heisman Winning Quarterback Jameis Winston could be in jeopardy. Matt Galka has been following Winston’s conduct code hearing, and tells us both sides had strong words before it began.

Jameis Winston arrived at his twice delayed student code of conduct hearing just before noon on Tuesday.  The quarterback was accused of sexual assault stemming from an incident two years ago. He was never charged.  Winston’s adviser had strong words for the accuser before the hearing.

“We intend to end this process today. Unfortunately, in these types of cases, the only way to confront a lie, is with the truth,” said attorney David Cornwell.

The accuser and her adviser, Baine Kerr, arrived shortly after Winston and declined to comment on camera.  But Kerr sent out a statement beforehand. Part of it read “Neither Jameis Winston nor his lawyer can stop what is coming.”

The hearing was held in an off campus engineering building. They’re typically held in the Dean of Students office. Not much about the high profile case has been typical.  Tim Jansen, who represented Winston while he was being investigated last year and has been involved in multiple conduct code hearings, says having a Supreme Court Justice decide the case is unusual.

“Normally you have a faculty panel, anytime there’s a sexual battery charge it’s already predetermined that the conduct code hearing will be a faculty panel. That’s comprised of three faculty members and two students,” said Jansen.

The hearing will continue until at least Wednesday. When day one ended, John Clune, one of the accuser’s advisers, said his side felt good.

“For our client it’s a very empowering day, a very important day, you have the Heisman trophy on trial for rape today, so I think that seeing where things have come over the past 10 months was kind of an emotional moment for her, as well as having to recount some of the things that happened to her was difficult but empowering at the same time,” said Clune.

Winston will most likely play in FloridaState’s ACC Championship game this Saturday against Georgia Tech, but a potential punishment could effect his status if Florida State were to make it to the College Football Playoffs in January.