re: FSU settles with Winston rape accuser

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FSU & the Tallahassee PD handled the situation poorly

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As did the accuser, which made it harder on the PD and the school.

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(On phone so no link.)

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What kind of phone do you have?

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MrFreakinMiyagi

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I bet you defended DeAndre Johnson after the video came out also.

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$950,000. A lot of cash from a school that claims nothing happened.

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And has absolutely nothing to do with whether Jameis was guilty or not

Amen. The settlement could mean a # of things. The suit could have just been too expensive to maintain.

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Although we regret we will never be able to tell our full story in court, it is apparent that a trial many months from now would have left FSU fighting over the past rather than looking toward its very bright future," Thrasher said in the release.

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FSU will pay Erica Kinsman $250,000 and her attorneys $700,000, university President John Thrasher said in a press release. He said FSU is settling to avoid spending millions on the lawsuit.

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FSU is guilty no matter what.

The Tall Police Department should really get hammered.

Take your fricking football glasses off.

The university and PD mishandled the shite out of this.

Note I did not say Winston is guilty, but no one who looked at this thought it was handled properly.

A girl goes to the hospital the same night she is raped. She cannot even identify who her alleged rapist is at the time. Her parents come to her side that night.

And yet she gets called a slut and everything else because the guy turns out to be a star qb.

I will gladly admit that Cam probably got money. I can sleep fine with that. How can you be ok with obstruction of justice in a fricking rape case?

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It was only after the prosecutor's office became aware of the case, 11 months after the reported rape, that actual detective work started. The players were questioned, as were taxi drivers. The bar surveillance footage was sought. DNA linking Winston to his accuser was obtained and analyzed. Prosecutors decided there was not enough evidence to bring charges, but loudly noted there would have been a lot more evidence had police done their job a year ago.

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"I believe that Mr. Winston cannot be convicted," Florida's chief assistant state attorney tells the Times. "I don't necessarily believe that he's innocent."

This has been the prosecutor's office's stance from the very beginning on the rape investigation of FSU quarterback Jameis Winston: that the truth will never be uncovered because of a baffling series of missteps and delays on the part of Tallahassee police.

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In 2014 Florida State reported nine cases of sexual battery (the Times notes this is the same as rape in Florida) to the federal government, according to Ashton. But she testified that over that same time period 113 students reported being sexually battered. Florida State was not required to report most of the other 104 cases of sexual battery because they occurred off-campus, thus exempting them from the Clery Act’s requirement to report all incidents of sexual misconduct.

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Do you seriously not see any red flags here?