Quote (Terps @ Mar 23 2021 09:09am)
Didn't the law office say they were forwarding their information to the police? It's not like the law office can press charges at the criminal level; DA has to do that. Law office can only make civil claims.
Also the burden of proof is lower in a civil case vs. a criminal case. You pretty much need smoking-gun evidence to get a criminal conviction in a high-profile case like this.
I know it's kind of a cop-out thing to say, but just listening to victims explain why they don't go to the police goes a long way toward understanding why they don't. Like, I'm not really interested in the whole me too movement thing, but if nothing else, listening to their stories helped me understand the woman perspective in these cases a bit better. It's not as simple as automatically leaving the situation and just going to the cops.
Yeah as you said sexual assaults are pretty difficult to get criminal prosecution on. That failure in the legal system leaves a vacuum for twitter mob vigilantism and civil court.
Sounds like the guy has an MO of getting many different massage therapists to do this. I think it's pretty unlikely to get 20+ women with a career in sports medicine to fabricate stories against a high profile athlete.
Doesn't mean he's guilty but it doesn't look good. Best thing for him is to pay them to sign an NDA lickity-split and sweep this under the rug. Maybe he should spend a couple hundred Gs on a massage therapist to travel with him and suck on his chest instead of millions in damages and legal fees.
but that wouldn't be as a fun would it.