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Tim Hort
Daily Stormer
November 18, 2017
Jameis Winston.
The time for settlements is over.
Florida State University agreed on Monday to pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former student who accused the former Seminoles football star Jameis Winston of raping her in 2012.
The settlement also commits Florida State to five years of sexual assault awareness programs and to the publishing of annual reports on those programs, although the university did not admit liability. Winston was never criminally charged in the case, in part, the local prosecutor acknowledged, because a number of shortcomings in the police investigation left him without the evidence needed to sustain a charge of rape.
Because of the publicity it generated, the Winston case became a centerpiece for a national debate over two intertwined issues: how universities handle allegations of sexual assault, and whether colleges and the police afford special treatment to athletes accused of misconduct. A New York Times examination — based on police and university records, as well as interviews with people close to the case, including lawyers and sexual assault experts — found that Florida State and the Tallahassee police had done little to determine what happened in the Winston case.
In a statement announcing Monday’s settlement, the Florida State president, John Thrasher, said the university had determined that fighting the suit would have cost millions of dollars and that avoiding a trial was thus a financially responsible decision “even though we are convinced that we would have prevailed.”
Mr. Thrasher’s statement also implied that Florida State understood that $250,000 would go to the woman, Erica Kinsman, and that her lawyers would receive the remaining $700,000 from the settlement. Ms. Kinsman’s lawyer, John Clune, rejected that math.
Erica Kinsman.
