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Attorneys on both sides have been taking shots at each other all day. Here is the letter that started the action on Wednesday, thanks to Al.com.
Tuesday, Jameis Winston's advisor David Cornwell, an attorney, sent a letter to Florida State University concerning his Winston's rights are they pertain to the Title IX investigation being conducted by Florida State concerning an allegation of sexual assault in 2012 for which he was not charged due to a lack of evidence.
In it, Cornwell claims that Patricia Carroll, the attorney for the Accuser, asked for $7M dollars, claiming "If we settle, you will never hear from my client or me again -- in the press or anywhere." Cornwell claims that the demand was immdiately rejected, and he uses the word "extort/extortion" several times throughout the document.
Race also played a significant role in the letter's claims.
[Accuser] used the media to defame Mr. Winston. On November 20, 2013, following her apparent leak to the media earlier in the month, Ms. Carroll issued a statement identifying Mr. Winston as [Accuser]’s alleged attacker and stated: "To be clear, the victim did not consent. This was a rape." Despite the ongoing criminal investigation, Ms. Carroll had what she considered to be the most compelling evidence of rape: she reportedly stated that the sex could not have been consensual because [Accuser] would never sleep with a "black boy." Presumably, Ms. Carroll was unaware that [Accuser]’s boyfriend at the time was also African American.
Ms. Carroll’s attacks on the two criminal investigations were particularly egregious given the fact that Ms. Carroll was concealing information. Ms. Carroll concealed that [Accuser] refused to identify and was reluctant to discuss her African American boyfriend with TPD and State Attorney investigators. She also concealed that [Accuser]’s African American boyfriend refused to cooperate with investigators. Ms. Carroll concealed that law enforcement investigators had to force [Accuser] s boyfriend to provide a DNA sample. Beyond the impact on her initial outburst that [Accuser] would not have sex with a "black boy," this information may have been concealed because there is evidentiary significance to the fact that a man did not cooperate with a criminal investigation into his girlfriend’s alleged rape.
Additionally, in direct conflict with her press conference, a source familiar with these events advised the undersigned that when she learned that another "black boy" was the donor of the other semen sample, Ms. Carroll asked a female friend of [Accuser] to lie and say that the shorts [Accuser] wore on the night of the alleged rape belonged to her rather than [Accuser] This information must be investigated to determine if it is true.
Cornwell also expresses multiple concerns about whether Winston's own rights are being protected, and wants to ensure that certain pieces of evidence, like the accuser's previous inconsistent statements to police, are considered in the process. Cornwell also expresses concern over whether certain evidence on social media may have been destroyed.
In this regard, upon information and belief, Ms. may have already destroyed potentially exculpatory evidence when she apparently deleted or altered information from social media site(s) relating to her alleged association with a group of women who called themselves "Cleat Chasers." These young women used the twitter handle #FSUCleatChasers to refer to themselves on social media. Mr. Winston is entitled to know if, as informed by a source, this group was focused on seeking the sexual attention of cleat wearing FSU football players, particularly African American FSU football players.
AL.com and the Tallahassee Democrat obtained the letter and made all 13 pages embeddable, below.