FSU Reopening Winston Title IX Investigation

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Not surprising to the HQ at all, but this was the initial report OSG Sports gave on the Title IX investigation in and around the Florida State QB in the off-season.

It appears the university is now reopening the Title IX investigation that the alleged Winston rape victim requested at the time. Jameis Winston did not answer any questions in the initial investigation, so it was tabled.

The investigation was widely panned and the New York Times constructed all of the errors in one place.

The University responded to the New Yor Times piece and panned it in return...
((HT: CBSMiami))


Tha attorney for the accuser, John Clune, says that his client feels that the process is "moving forward" after his client was interviewed last month for an incident that happened in 2012:

"We expect that there will be code of conduct charges that will be brought," he told Rachel Axon of USA Today. "There's no basis not to bring those charges now."

During the criminal investigation, Winston (through his lawyers) maintained that the sexual contact was consensual.

But an on-campus Title IX investigation gets around the criminal complaint:

Decisions are made on a "preponderance of the evidence" and should, as a rule, take no longer than two months to complete. That would, then, make the decision public in the neighborhood of Week 10 of the college football season.

And could send the FSU football season into a tizzy for the next 8 weeks or so...

Got all that...???

Darren Sharper Denied Bail Again

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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Renee Korn rejected the defense idea that former NFL'er Darren Sharper should be granted bail and be held under house arrest until trial as he appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Monday. Judge Korn is waiting to see if the state of Arizona will pursue extradition proceedings...

Prosecutors say the Arizona governor's office is preparing to extradite Sharper even as Sharper's defense team is saying the opposite is true.

Basically, Sharper is still in trouble in more than one state and it will all start in Los Angeles at some point...

Jovana Lara is outside the courtroom

Darren Sharper In Deep Doo-Doo in New Orleans (and Other Places)

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This is not good at all...

Former NFL'er and NFL Network analyst Darren Sharper is currently in jail in Los Angeles after surrendering last week to police after a warrant was issued in connection with the alleged rapes in New Orleans.

Sharper and an acquaintance-slash-friend, Eric Nunez, are each facing two charges of aggravated rape in the incident that dates back to September.

Sharper also has been charged with seven felonies in Los Angeles related to cases in which he's accused of drugging and raping two women he met at nightclubs. He pleaded not guilty to those charges. The release of the indictment in New Orleans also lends itself to concurrent information and an apparent pattern for all of the incidents he is under investigation for in California, Louisiana, Florida, Nevada, and Arizona.

The interesting part of all this should be the legal wrangling that goes on from this moment forward because the severity of possible jail terms differs from state to state...

Katie Moore goes over the filing with Chick Foret...

Is Former NFL Safety Darren Sharper a Serial Rapist?

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What started out as two rape charges may now be seven.

Former NFL safety Darren Sharper, also an NFL Network football analyst is facing multiple rape charges in four different states.

Sharper, who was charged Friday with 2 charges of rape and 5 charges involving drugging in Los Angeles, is now facing a different kind of heat on Saturday as the LA County D.A's office now have more alleged victims coming forward.

They say Sharper is now suspected of at least 7 rapes and of drugging at least 11 people in four states.

Which by most descriptions, would make him a serial rapist.

According to the reports, all the incidents happened between September of 2013 and January of this year.

Note--Sharper is only officially charged with the two L.A cases. Charges in New Orleans, Tempe, Arizona and Las Vegas have not been filed.

Read more from the Los Angeles Times RIGHT HERE

Sharper, who's 38-years old, played on the 2009 Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints team and has been suspended from his NFL Network job. He's out of jail on a $200K bond and had to forfeit  his passport.

KTLA-TV in Los Angeles with the TV story: