I've only seen one page of the charging doc on Twitter, but it's a M1 - 364 days max. Supposedly he's charged with two counts, which comprise two separate instances, so it's effectively a two year max.
Yup. A year, a fine of $5 grand and a course on human trafficking.
Ahh..my mistake.
I was thinking more:Maybe he'll play the "sex addict" defense
No. LOL. Just no. There's no rule requiring a defense attorney, upon obtaining discovery, to make that discovery public.
I think that's a $5,000 fine not $500,000. The half mil will be the fine from the NFL.
Yup, I changed it.
The employee is a victim of sex trafficking, so they have a different set of protections, including visas they can get as victims. Not sure on fingerprints.
At arraignment his attorney will enter a NG plea for him and demand disco and a jury trial. It's pretty routine.
Yes, which was also reported Friday. They were stopping people for "traffic infractions" with the real goal of grabbing their ID's. There was one report where 4 of the people said they were at the spa for sexual favors.
He went in there to get a massage, he paid for a massage. They chose to massage his penis and gave a good tip since he's rich?
Word usage (tip) and sometimes there aren’t enough words in the language. Or am I being Big Ben here?
Not much of a defense. No jury is going to have much doubt why a billionaire who can get massages anywhere is doing a quick 14 minute trip to a strip mall massage parlor while his Bentley waits.
I fully agree with you. Not sure what other explanation there is though.
Par for the course. It won’t matter. At least this way he forces the media to be a bit unsure and to be careful to say “alleged” just in case.
There isn’t. That’s why he will plead eventually, or whatever first time misdemeanor solicitation defendants do in FL, after his public relations machine has figured out all the spin.
The ". . .but that makes no sense" and the "confused old man" defense will have a very hard time getting around whatever those videos (plural) show. If the video is excluded for some reason, there are a couple of variations on that which might have some legs.
He was stopped on the first (Saturday) visit, and still went back the next day.
It does say he was ID’d via DL the first day but doesn’t say he was stopped, but I guess that follows.
First off I assume he went there for a hand job. BUT
He can’t. If the guy is comfortable enough to go into slimy strip mall massage parlors for a 14 minute tug you can be pretty confident that this is the tip of the iceberg in terms of sex vice.
Intent is almost always proven with circumstantial evidence. The waiting car, the timing, and the fact that he has money to get legitimate massages anywhere but happened into a place where prostitution occurs and in fact did have a sex act performed after which he paid money is a pretty compelling case. As a juror I really wouldn’t have much trouble with it.
It's a prior conviction, as opposed to a prior unproven accusation. So a lot depends on the timing of the charging documents. There are ways to do it, and there are circumstances where it would be precluded But usually, in practice, a S.A. would not seek that sort of enhancement for this type of crime on the basis that there were two incidents a day or two apart.
