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[TheRainMaker]

Nor should the accused be vilified. Did you ever pay attention to the Duke Lacrosse case and how those kids lives were absolutely ruined for nothing at all?

How about erring on the side of evidence and logic?

Totally forgot about that.

And how about highly sought out high school football player Brian Banks?

 

[Froob]

(Hypothetically) Is there any reason why she’d go the civil route if it did actually happen?

 

[bormio]

No, I'm just saying the Pats imported a soap opera which many fans feared. It is already starting. Next week his stupidity will surface in other ways to dominate the news. He probably is being extorted but his stupid choices led to this.

The Patriots are a living, breathing soap opera. Get used to it. When they are not, it will mean they suck.

 

[Deus Irae]

Ask around, lol, i see so many people jumping to your defense. Most of your **** takes on a pompous tone. Just another post where Dues Irae is absolutely correct.

OK, so you're nothing more a clown, who's decided to triple down on being needlessly stupid. Time for the ignore. I've not got the time for your kind tonight.

 

[Jackson 2]

Do you guys think he'll get any reprimand from the team?

Publicly, not a chance. And privately, I think if they believe he's guilty they'll release him. Only my opinion.

 

[Wheelman]

Ravens have a very solid secondary but Earl Thomas is getting a little older and has been spending a lot of time on the IR in recent years.

Chargers have a good secondary but we may not see them until the playoffs.

They tossed a screw in his bone in this last surgery. That's supposed to make his leg stronger I thought. He should be fine this time around.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Defamation is really hard to prove as a public figure, almost impossible. Extortion would have a much lower bar

Falsely calling a public figure a rapist is gonna meet the “actual malice” standard, which says that if a public figure sues for defamation he has to prove by a preponderance of the evidence (“50% plus a feather”) that the utterer spoke “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.”

A false claim of rape (if it really is false) directly by the accuser will easily meet that bar. This isn’t like some news media person hearing about it from a source that in their experience is generally trustworthy but wasn’t this time, publishing “a source close to the team said XXX was known to be abusing women” and getting sued.

 

[lancerman]

Wow.

What do you want me to say. In this league, you tolerate more ******** for the players that make the most difference. It's not about fair, it's about reality. We don't need AB, he has not played a down for this team, we won a Super Bowl last year, two years before that, and two years before that, he is not needed.

The risk of him being not guilty and losing the potential of him simply doesn not outweigh the risk of sticking with him through a circus with the potential that he is guilty and we deal with a world of ****.

 

[LJRomanoff]

No, I'm just saying the Pats imported a soap opera which many fans feared. It is already starting. Next week his stupidity will surface in other ways to dominate the news. He probably is being extorted but his stupid choices led to this.

With all due respect, who cares what the fans feared? The team made a judgment call.

 

[letekro]

I will post as much as I like. Who died and made you the post count cop?

I am basically saying that victims/accusers should not be vilified in the media immediately. And that it is better to take the side of the victim at first even if it is the wrong side.

I don't need to take sides here as I am not involved.

Can you share with us an example, in the past 10 years, where a female accuser has been “instantly vilified in the media”? Each new piece of your expressed worldview is more confounding than the last.

 

[DropKickFlutie]

I'm not sure of the facts. But if it's true that after incident1, she then went to his home for incident2 and incident3, I'd start looking to see if her lawyers are Steelers or Chiefs or Giants/Jets fans

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[TBR]

Comments:
1.) Guilty until proven innocent is how we approach sexual assault cases. And it should be that way...most victims are telling the truth. So, it is better to err on the side of the victim.

I thought this was satire at first. You're being serious though. Yikes.

 

[supafly]

Totally forgot about that.

And how about highly sought out high school football player Brian Banks?

Non-sports, but Richard Jewel, too. People still think he’s the ATL bomber from the ‘96 Olympics to this day. Truth is that he was a hero.

 

[Todd Bradley]

(Hypothetically) Is there any reason why she’d go the civil route if it did actually happen?

She still loves him and doesn’t want to see him in jail?

That’s about all I could assume.

And if that’s the case, I mean, doesn’t that make her story even less credible?

 

[TheRainMaker]

For flasely accusing. Same with that USC player..Banks a few years back.

He never played for SC. That POS girl ruined his life.

 

[LJRomanoff]

(Hypothetically) Is there any reason why she’d go the civil route if it did actually happen?

 

[patfanken]

(Hypothetically) Is there any reason why she’d go the civil route if it did actually happen?

Yeah, because there isn't any monetary gain if he's just thrown in jail.....IF there were any truth to this or if she really cared that it happened.

 

[Deus Irae]

Lives will always be ruined. It is why any accusation needs to be taken seriously.

There is a world of difference between taking an accusation seriously, and believing an accuser just because of his/her position of being the accuser, regardless of the charge.

 

[Todd Bradley]

Non-sports, but Richard Jewel, too. People still think he’s the ATL bomber from the ‘96 Olympics to this day. Truth is that he was a hero.

Clint Eastwood is making a movie on that whole situation right now FYI.

 

[XLIX]

(Hypothetically) Is there any reason why she’d go the civil route if it did actually happen?

Yes. For money. But she would also go the criminal route. That way she would have professional investigators with the authority to question, detain, investigate and compile evidence of guilt. Instead now, all she is going to have is whatever texts/recordings were exchanged.