I saw today that the FSU letter had been sent to supporters. Not sure if this is the same one that appeared with ESPN(?) yesterday. The ESPN one was called a statement that was issued, the one today was called a letter to supporters.
1I think the TPD detective notified them in DEC that the rape was reported and a football player ( casher) was mentioned as a person who had encountered her, given her a drink, and arranged to meet her outside, where she has a patchy memory of faces in a taxi, one of them being his before she faded out again She knew he was Chris the only freshman starter on the team. According to tallahassee democrat when this first surfaced, it is policy to report this to the captain and I think, to the UAA. According to talla. democrat procedure was not followed and the detective did not report it to the captain. He did report to the school and the city manager who reported it to a commiisioner. Tallydemocrat's first 2 stories on this topic were a follow up to previous stories on the failures of the TPD, so they were not hiding this info.
2I n January, after she identified winston, while they told her they couldn't contact him without jeporadizing the investigation, , they did relay this info to UAA. and contact him. It was said back then , they attempted to interview winston He DID NOT SAY the sex was consensual- He and friends said they did not know her and they were elsewhere, nowhere around PotBelly's. FSU is now referring to this as a title IX investigation- this week..
3 The consensual sex story came from Jansen AFTER Winston was forced by circumstances to "volunteer" a DNA sample, some time after beginning of August 2013. ( nov 21, 2013)
4 This was not a timely titlie IX investigation which was required within 60 days of a reported assault. She reported the assault to the school.. The "investigation" in january 2013 was FSU following up on the tip from the TPD detective. She was not contacted. If it had been a title IX investigation, it meant they had to interview her, which was not attempted, nor did FSU ever claim to have attempted it through all the publicity they have put out -until now. Sometime around then is when she got a lawyer because TPD would not investigate the leads or interview winston. On the latter, they kept insisting it would not be wise to tip him off that they were investigating. The girl's lawyer was still pressing TPD for the lab results which in reality were not sent at that point although they had been told they had gone out promptly in december. Faimly was being ignored which is why they invovled attorney who als was having a lot of trouble even getting calls returned, much less getting any answers or investigation, except of her cell phone.
5 During 2013, the girl's attorney pressed for a title IX investigation from the school. . FSU recently ( last week? week before?) claim they started the process last oct-dec depending on the article wordings although there was no actual investigation meeting held until after the BSCCG when they suddenly told the title IX rep of the school to show up and forgot to inform the girl and her attorneys. They claim the girl's attorney told them not to contact her- Perhaps she could in fact have told them not to contact the victim directly , but through the attorney as required. Other than that, they were being stonewalled. This winter 2014 fus inititated title IX investigation occurred suddenly ONLY after her lawyer announced they were filing a title ix federal complaint and bringing in another attorney, and only after title IX expressed interest in this case in the media.as part of a focus that had become politically higher profile, and only after the championship game had passed..
They have used this tired claim of her or her attorneys refusing to participate repeatedly as convenient, when the young woman's family and first attorney had been very proactive all along despite being repeatedly stonewalled. I would be banging my head against the wall in frustration.
Obviously, these lies they keep spewing piss me off. They count on no one reading articles and having short memories. Sound bytes and short attention spans
Again, the guys did not even tell the school it was consensual until after Winston's DNA matched the DNA on her samples- after early august 2013.(just looked it up- November 21, 2013 is when is lawyer made winston's generous gesture known- FDLE had been telling TPD to get a sample at least since AUgust if not the spring. FDLE basically had to threaten them to get them to act and it still took until november 2013..
