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Originally Posted by poconoder
Let Rolling Stone know, they'll make up a story for you.
poco:
There's nothing "made up" about this story. Tevin Elliott didn't get convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison on made up charges or false evidence. He received a fair trial - with all his due process rights - and was convicted by a jury of his peers. Twelve individuals heard the evidence and unanimously agreed that he was guilty. I haven't read the trial transcript or details of Mr. Elliott's trial, but I suspect he may have been offered a plea bargain deal - which he apparently rejected. He apparently thought he could beat the rap (or get a hung jury) so he told the prosecutor to stuff it. If that was the case, then not only is Elliott a rapist and a violent thug - he's also an idiot.
Other Baylor football players have been charged and convicted. The head football coach and the athletic director - plus several assistant coaches - are not fired based on a "made up" story. Text messages, released to the press by angry [former] Baylor staff, clearly show Art Briles telling his assistant coaches that [President] Starr will reinstate a football player dismissed from the Boise State team for acts of violence committed against women while he was playing for Boise State. (In allowing Briles to reinstate this ex Boise State player, Ken Starr overruled Baylor's provost who felt [strongly] that allowing such an individual to play for Baylor would send "the wrong message" to the rest of the Baylor student body, (i.e. that the football players didn't have to abide by the same rules as the rest of the student body.)
Briles also brags in some of the text messages about the fine police officers of the Waco Police Department who helped cover up the crimes by actively discouraging - and in some cases threatening - victims in an effort to discourage them from reporting alleged rapes. (Briles even intimated in one of his messages how great it was having such a cooperative police force on his side.) No wonder the football players thought they could get away with anything ... When the police are also part of the criminality, (and you're a rapist), you can't lose!
On top of all this criminal activity and corruption, there are a plethora of civil lawsuits being filed by the victims against the university. Some of those cases have already been settled - probably for millions. No university, business, or individual pays millions [to settle a civil lawsuit] based on a false story. Paying millions to make such lawsuits go away is an implicit admission of guilt. (One can only imagine how many of the regents are worried as to what might come out about them if any of the civil suits actually go to trial ...)
Nice dodge trying to dismiss this as just another "made up" story.
Last edited by Alan C. Lawhon; 02-12-2017 at 06:21 AM.