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A former University of Michigan music professor who was fired in 2020 after being accused of multiple instances of sexual assault pleaded guilty Monday to sexually assaulting an adult, a second-degree felony, NPR reported.

David Daniels, an opera singer, became the first tenured professor to be dismissed by the University of Michigan in more than 60 years. He was extradited to Texas where he and his husband, Scott Walters, faced charges that they had drugged and raped a former graduate student.

On the eve of the trial, the two men pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of sexually assaulting an adult.