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Jameis Winston's Alleged Victim Will 'Absolutely' Sue the FSU Quarterback [Video]
ABC News ^ | January 8th, 2014 | Matt Gutman and Alyssa Newcomb

Posted on 01/08/2014 4:43:37 PM PST by Third Person

The attorney for Jameis Winston's alleged rape victim said she "absolutely" plans to file a civil lawsuit against the Florida State University star quarterback and the Tallahassee Police Department.

"I want heads to roll," Pat Carroll, the attorney for the woman who claims Winston raped her in December 2012, told ABC News in an exclusive interview.

Carroll said the Tallahassee Police Department was negligent in handling her client's case against the 20-year-old Heisman Trophy winner. He claims the way police handled the allegations led to a prosecutor's decision to drop the case.

"Absolutely you're going to see a civil suit," Carroll said. "You can not have law enforcement that is not held accountable."

Carroll said, “The family is proceeding, with civil action against the TPD and Jameis Winston. And possibly the university.”

The Tallahassee Police Department and representatives for Winston did not immediately return ABC News' request for comment.

In December, Tallahassee Police Chief Tom Coe said in a statement that his department "took the case seriously, processed evidence and conducted an investigation based on information available at that time."

Winston's attorney has claimed the athlete and his alleged victim had consensual sex, however in a video released Tuesday by Tallahassee police, Jenna Weisberg, the accuser's friend who called police on her behalf that night, told a different story.

"She remembers the roommate trying to get him to stop. He walked in and was like, 'Stop she doesn't want to,'" Weisberg said in the video.

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It ain't over yet.
1 posted on 01/08/2014 4:43:37 PM PST by Third Person
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To: Third Person

Where’s Gloria Alred?


2 posted on 01/08/2014 4:51:51 PM PST by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: Third Person
Notwithstanding the BCS championship game coming up, I'm sure the local yokel prosecutor did his impartial best to see that justice was served.

But the piper still demand to be paid.

3 posted on 01/08/2014 4:59:59 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Third Person
Winston's attorney has claimed the athlete and his alleged victim had consensual sex, however in a video released Tuesday by Tallahassee police, Jenna Weisberg, the accuser's friend who called police on her behalf that night, told a different story. "She remembers the roommate trying to get him to stop. He walked in and was like, 'Stop she doesn't want to,'" Weisberg said in the video.

I find this at least superficially implausible. If I walked in on a rape, I'd go from "stop" . . . to 9-1-1 . . . to a baseball bat or .45 cal to the skull pretty quickly. Did the friend do anything else? Perhaps her story is true, but I'd like to see if the details sound more believable than the news summary.

4 posted on 01/08/2014 5:07:34 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Pollster1

The accuser’s friend (that called the police) says the victim remembers the accused’s roommate walking in and telling him to stop.

At least that’s how I understand the murky writing. That means there is a 3rd person with knowledge of what happened.


5 posted on 01/08/2014 5:16:18 PM PST by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with brute force, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: Third Person

Jameis?


6 posted on 01/08/2014 5:21:49 PM PST by Bigg Red (Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.--Ps3)
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The writing is terrible, and I couldn’t tell much from what they did mention, but I’d like to know what the third party claims to have seen and done before giving the rape claim any credibility. Either this report is so heavily edited that there is nothing convincing left, or there was never anything there, and I can’t tell which without better information.


7 posted on 01/08/2014 5:22:59 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
Notwithstanding the BCS championship game coming up...

Wasn't that Monday? FSU over Auburn?

8 posted on 01/08/2014 5:23:40 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Third Person

Didn’t the judge drop the case so that he could get the Heisman?


9 posted on 01/08/2014 5:25:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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why couldn't Auburn won?.....put this little Vick wannabe back in his cage.....

the tale of our times.....getting justice in civil court....

10 posted on 01/08/2014 5:25:46 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: Pollster1

It was a team mate, who supposedly also recorded some of it on his phone. The phone is now missing... or at least no longer in the team mates possession.

Which kinda supports the accuser’s lawyers claim that the investigation was deliberately flubbed.


11 posted on 01/08/2014 5:29:02 PM PST by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with brute force, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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Jameis?

It used to be LaJameisianladanianjamal, but he shortened it to fit his jersey.

12 posted on 01/08/2014 5:31:11 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Third Person

Reserving judgment until judgment is decided. You never know in some of this. Sounds like a he said she said. I’ll wait and see.


13 posted on 01/08/2014 5:36:39 PM PST by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: Pollster1

There’re are stories on the internet that she was a cleat chaser.


14 posted on 01/08/2014 5:37:31 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: cherry

“why couldn’t Auburn won?”

Great question...


15 posted on 01/08/2014 5:43:56 PM PST by EEGator
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To: cherry

What? Because they lost, maybe?


16 posted on 01/08/2014 6:08:58 PM PST by WHBates
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To: Third Person; All

Looks like Erica Kinsman and her attorney lied from an earlier press conference, when the attorney stated that they will not sue Winston. That was from an earlier press conference

Wonder if Auburn won Monday night, they would not sue?

Winston did not rape this woman, I hope he fights this


17 posted on 01/08/2014 6:11:42 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Amnesty And Not Ending ObamaCare Will Kill GOP In 2014)
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It used to be LaJameisianladanianjamal, but he shortened it to fit his jersey.

LOL, Roger that.

19 posted on 01/08/2014 6:35:22 PM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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20 posted on 01/08/2014 6:57:29 PM PST by txmissy
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