Did we not win the division, win the AFC, go to the MF'n Super Bowl, AND get better?

[Nicomo Cosca]

(03-27-2022, 12:33 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I have been a criminal defense attorney for over 20 years.  I am very familiar with claims of sexual assault.  I don't automatically believe them, but I don't automatically dismiss them either.

I know it shocks some people to believe women would lie about this sort of thing, but they do.  The type of women who are legitimately in the business of private therapeutic massage would file criminal complaints as soon as something like this happened because they would want to protect other women in their business from being victimized.  The last thing they would od would be to try and reach a secret cash settlement that would have allowed him to continue as a predator as long as the victim got paid.  But that is exactly what the firsts ones did.

Remember that all of these alleged assaults took place AFTER the "me too" movement had become so popular.  They did not have to worry about being ostracized by filing criminal charges.  They certainly would not wait until they heard that a multimillionaire was being charged by someone else before they came forward.

There is no physical evidence that any of these sexual encounters were anything but 100% consensual. At some point you have to look at the circumstantial evidence to figure out what happened.  Every single one of these women could have just terminated their session with Watson at any time if they felt he was acting in appropriately.  Also Watson has provided a list of 20 other massage therapists that claim he never acted inappropriate with them.

This post is even grosser. And you being a defense attorney doesn’t give you any kind of insight into this particular case. I’m the son of a prosecutor that did that job for nearly 40 years. So what? Every case needs to be treated individually. And your stance on this reeks of victim blaming.

As for the bold, you should know better. There is often no “physical evidence” in sexual assault cases. That’s par for the course. Especially non-penetrative rapes. But you’ve found your latest chance to do your bullshit contrarian shtick, and I’m not going to feed into it any further.

I’m also not going to personally sit here and accuse 22 different women who don’t even know each other of lying to defend one man. Who btw sure sounds guilty AF if you actually listen to him (and read between the lines) talk about it.

Respond if you want (I’m sure you will), but I have no desire to go back and forth with you any further on this topic. You have not earned the benefit of the doubt as to your motives for taking the position you have. It’s absolutely classic Fred.