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Good timing Kane, dummy.
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Great, now it's lose/lose. Rapist gets to walk free, victim gets called a money grabbing ho. Think the Hawks can trade him?
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How does one "settle" a criminal case?.
You're either indicted or you aren't...settlements are for civil matters.
And your link doesn't work.
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He probably means Kane's lawyer is cutting a deal with the prosecution to plead to a lesser charge.
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Did u pass the bar?
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Link: http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/hamburg/kane-grand-jury-postponed-sources-say-20150908
The reason for the delay appears to involve the possibility of ongoing settlement talks between attorneys for Kane and the victim, two of the sources said.
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All this settlement is going to do is to allow all sides of the argument think that they're theory is true.
Those who believe this is just a cash grab will believe that. Those who believe Kane and his lawyers are throwing money at this problem to make it go away will believe that.
But the only real truth you can glean from a settlement is that you'll never really know what happened.
Will be interesting to see how the Hawks handle it, though.
Those who believe this is just a cash grab will believe that. Those who believe Kane and his lawyers are throwing money at this problem to make it go away will believe that.
But the only real truth you can glean from a settlement is that you'll never really know what happened.
Will be interesting to see how the Hawks handle it, though.
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He passes plenty of them every day.
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Civil settlement that is kept under-wraps (expect for the sieve of unnamed sources), and accuser refuses to follow through on the criminal side....basically throwing the criminal case. Illegal, but tough to prove and probably pretty prevalent.
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Interesting that last week it was leaked that this was as close to a "slam dunk" case as you could get, yet the DA was calling everyone from the house that night to the grand jury. He of course only has to call the accuser, and that is generally enough to get an indictment. Why wouldn't you do just that for a "slam dunk" case?
I've been talking to a prosecutor for the last week over Twitter who said this is a common practice for a DA in a high profile case, allowing him to put the onus on the grand jury if he doesn't really want to proceed, and yet doesn't want to get blamed for letting off a celebrity.
So maybe it isn't Kane's side initiating the settlement talks. After all, both sides of the story would have been presented to the GJ, not just the prosecution's.
I've been talking to a prosecutor for the last week over Twitter who said this is a common practice for a DA in a high profile case, allowing him to put the onus on the grand jury if he doesn't really want to proceed, and yet doesn't want to get blamed for letting off a celebrity.
So maybe it isn't Kane's side initiating the settlement talks. After all, both sides of the story would have been presented to the GJ, not just the prosecution's.
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Maybe that report was wrong, then.
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Welcome back, IB. Have u been talking to the prosecutor for the last week?
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Possibly. It was leaked from "law enforcement sources close to the case", same as a lot of the BN stories. Also interesting that today's BN article is now calling this an accusation of "sexual assault", and not "rape", as they've reported for weeks.
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Both terms have the same meaning, sexual assault was created in hopes victims would be more willing to come forward...sounds better than rape.
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No, they don't. SA can mean unwanted groping, kissing, etc. Rape means forced penetration. She said she was raped according to the BN's sources. "Overpowered and raped", I believe, were the exact terms used.
The BN had zero problem reporting that for weeks. Now they've apparently backed off.
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They have backed down using the word Rape and just checked Tim Graham's twitter feed, he has been pretty damn silent regarding the Kane allegations for a couple of weeks now, ever since several other news outlets called him out on slanted reporting. Either someone told him to STFU from a legal stand point or his sources were crap to begin with.
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