Did you see this post by Elyse?
I'm really disappointed and shocked to see how many people have embraced this media story without question.
If you go to the Smoking Gun and check out the 'police report' that this whole story is based on you will see that it is a witness statement taken by the police. The Smoking Gun distorts the truth by saying 'According to the police" and then they state details from the witness report which are the words of the witness and not the words of the policeman taking the statement or a statement of fact from the police department. You do not have all the facts. You have one side of the story.
If you believe that every man that is accused of a domestic violence is guilty and that no woman can lie or exaggerate in a police report when she is upset or angry, then I guess that is all the evidence you need to convict him in an internet kangaroo court.
The report states that the girlfriend signed a warrant for his arrest. She did not sign the warrant. The police went ahead with the case on their own because at that time Ohio was having a zero tolerance on domestic abuse campaign. The girlfriend, in fact, wrote a letter to the court in Scott's defense.
The Smoking Gun says that Scott eventually took a plea, insinuating that he plea bargained, when there is no evidence of that. The district attorney could have dropped the charges when he realized that he did not have the evidence to convict.
The facts in this case are that Scott was accused of crime that he was not found guilty of committing. Scott plead no contest and was found guilty of a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge.
In the 4 years, since this incident Scott went on to become a state certified corrections officer. He has custody of his son.
Every article about this in the media has not added any new facts. All the, so called, reporters have only paraphrased the Smoking Gun report. I guess they are all too lazy or not intelligent enough to find all the facts and write an unbiased report that contains both sides of the story. It's better to put out a juicy story, than the real story.
80 posted on 04/05/2005 4:01:19 AM EDT by Elyse
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1375173/posts?page=#80
No, I hadn't seen that one from Elyse. Thanks for the ping.
Interesting isn't it?