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HELENA — The state of Montana will pay Jordan Johnson $245,000 under a settlement in which the former University of Montana quarterback agreed to drop claims that the school and its officials mishandled a rape investigation against him.

In addition to UM and the Montana University System, UM President Royce Engstrom, former Dean of Students Charles Couture and former university legal counsel David Aronofsky are listed as having all potential claims against them resolved under the settlement.

The settlement does not include an admission of liability on behalf of the state, UM or any of its employees.

David Paoli, Johnson’s attorney, said in a statement Tuesday that Couture predetermined guilt on Johnson’s part after he was accused of sexual assault by a female student in 2012, and that Couture went on to “act as a biased investigator, prosecutor and judge in spite of being required by all rules and regulations to be impartial and provide fairness and equal treatment in the process.”

Paoli also wrote that Aronofsky and Engstrom oversaw, facilitated, reviewed and approved Couture’s practices.