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If dude is truly falsely accused, this gives him the opportunity to show the world AGAIN that justice prevailed.
Legal fees for him will suck though.
Welp, once again a White Yes, is a black maybe.
>http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/10/nate_parker_penn_state.html#incart_river_home > >As director Nate Parker's "Birth of a Nation" made its way >through the film circuit, the onetime Penn State wrestler was >forced to address his past, including talking about it on "60 >Minutes". > >Turner was accused then acquitted of a raping an 18-year-old >woman in 1999 while he was a Penn State student. > >"I was falsely accused," Turner said. "I went to court. I was >vindicated. I feel terrible that this woman isn't here. Her >family had to deal with that but as I sit here, an apology is >— no." > >Now a New York Times report has revealed that the Pennsylvania >Attorney General's Office is assessing whether Penn State >officials were lenient in Parker's case. > >One of those officials involved in the Parker case, former >athletic director Tim Curley, is facing trial on how he, >Graham Spanier and Gary Schultz handled the Jerry Sandusky >scandal at Penn State. > >The Attorney General's Office, according to the Times, has >spoken with the accuser in the 1999 rape case, as well as >former Penn State wrestling coach Troy Sunderland and former >athletic director Robert Krimmel. > >More from the Times: > >Suspended from the wrestling team when he was criminally >charged with rape, he was reinstated in the fall of 2000 while >still facing trial. Within weeks, a female student trainer >complained that he had exposed himself to her. But after she >decided not to go to the police, despite the urging of the >university, Penn State appears to have dropped the matter. > >Now the Parker case has drawn the attention of the state >attorney general's office here, which is prosecuting three >former university officials on charges that they failed to >report Mr. Sandusky's sexual abuse of children. One of the >three, Tim Curley, the former athletic director, played a role >in how the university dealt with the exposure complaint >against Mr. Parker, according to interviews with several >people, including the woman who made the complaint. > >Prosecutors are trying to assess whether the school's handling >of Mr. Parker suggests a broader pattern of inaction by the >athletic department when it came to complaints of sexual >misconduct, according to two law enforcement officials briefed >on the investigation who are not authorized to discuss it >publicly. > >Parker was kicked off Penn State's wrestling team in 2001. > >It's unknown whether the data being collected by the attorney >general's office is being used in the case against Curley, >Schultz and Spanier.
********** "Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson
"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"
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