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To me the part that sticks out is:Police detective testifies she believed Deshaun Watson committed crimes
A Houston detective testified in a deposition about the police investigation of Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson.www.usatoday.com
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if the local prosecutors made a really bad ham sandwich in order to protect the savior of their local NFL franchise. We already have the reports that there was an unusually high amount of interaction between the prosecutors and Watson's attorney. Somehow that seems to not be getting much traction, but it seems important to me.Grand jury proceedings are conducted under secrecy and are led by prosecutors, who generally have wide latitude in how aggressively they push a grand jury to indict. The defendants and their attorneys are not normally present to put up a rebuttal in these proceedings, as they weren’t in the case of Watson.
I agree the detective should have a more neutral stance, but a crime investigator that starts with the assumption that there is no crime wouldn't be very good at their job either.
I agree with the last part of the article:
I think it'll go down like the OJ trial, the criminal proceedings will go nowhere, but given how much time they have to prepare the case and the amount of additional information they are gathering and the lower burden of proof, the civil proceedings will be a real problem for Watson.“We will be taking the deposition of the other officer assigned to the case soon,” he said. “We continue to collect information, and it continues to make our case stronger.”
I also predict that Watson will in some way or form repeat his behavior and get himself in trouble again. It's clear what he's been doing is a deep-seated thing and yet he says he did nothing wrong, so odds are high he'll get himself in trouble again, and there will be little sympathy for him the second time around.