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Sexual Assault Suits Against Watson

Obviously big day today, I know the hearing is today but will they also decide today? Or can that take days?


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djohn2oo8 said:
The quoted NYT article states Watson pled the fifth to 150 questions
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FROM THE NY TIMES:

Deshaun Watson Invokes Fifth Amendment in Sexual Misconduct Depositions
Watson was deposed in two civil lawsuits at the same time a grand jury heard evidence to consider criminal charges against the Texans quarterback accused last year by two dozen women of lewd behavior.

By Jenny Vrentas and Kevin Draper
March 11, 2022Updated 2:57 p.m. ET


HOUSTON — Deshaun Watson, a star N.F.L. quarterback who has been accused by two dozen women of sexual misconduct during massage appointments, sat down for the first time for depositions in two lawsuits in his lawyer’s office on Friday morning.

He entered unseen by the half-dozen or so media members camped outside of the downtown skyscraper that houses the office of his lawyer, Rusty Hardin, who had previously said the depositions would be a “worthless exercise” because he advised Watson to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Tony Buzbee, a lawyer for the 22 women who have filed civil lawsuits against Watson, said that Watson did indeed cite his Fifth Amendment right during the two depositions, each of which lasted about 90 minutes. Buzbee estimated that Watson responded to 150 questions or more by citing his Fifth Amendment right. The women who filed these two civil cases did not submit criminal complaints against Watson.

While Watson was being deposed, a perhaps even more consequential development in the case was taking shape about a mile away, at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center. There, prosecutors were presenting evidence to a 12-person grand jury on Friday. The grand jury was expected to meet for most of the day and to consider criminal charges against Watson.

“Nothing we did today has anything to do with what is going on at the criminal courthouse,” said Buzbee.

The 10 criminal complaints filed against the Houston Texans quarterback Watson last year described a range of actions including his exposing himself, purposely touching therapists’ hands with his penis and three claims of sexual assault. Multiple women who filed criminal complaints were at the courthouse ready to speak with the grand jury about their interactions with Watson if called upon by prosecutors. The plan by prosecutors also included presenting the videotaped interviews these women did with police, Buzbee said.
Hardin called the depositions a “media created event,” and said that no lawyer would allow their client to respond to questions in a civil suit when criminal charges were still possible. He said Buzbee orchestrated the depositions so that they would “show him asking a salacious question and Deshaun taking the fifth.”
Hardin said that Watson would respond to questions in the civil suits once possible criminal charges were resolved.

Almost exactly one year ago, Ashley Solis, a 28-year-old licensed massage therapist, filed the first lawsuit against Watson, saying that he purposely touched her hand with his erect and exposed penis during a March 2020 massage appointment at her home. Over the ensuing weeks, similar allegations against one of professional football’s brightest young stars piled up at a stunning pace.

Watson has denied any wrongdoing, and Hardin has said any sexual acts that happened during massage appointments were consensual. Hardin said earlier this week that he was “delighted” the grand jury was set to make a decision about whether Watson would face criminal charges, and confidently asserted that he did not believe his client would be charged

The fact that a grand jury decision, which is not a determination of guilt or innocence, held such importance for those involved reflected the stakes of the case. The women who spoke with the grand jury on Friday wanted their accounts of misconduct against a star athlete to be taken seriously. And Watson has sought not just to be cleared of wrongdoing, but to position himself to be traded from the Texans in order to resume his N.F.L. career with a different team.
THE REST OF THE STORY
 
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djohn2oo8 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1502381680933457923
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Days before the deposition, Buzbee said he received written testimony from Watson that he had no communication with either woman. Buzbee also requested Watson to provide any phone number that he may have used to communicate with the women. Watson provided seven or eight phone numbers, Buzbee said. Buzbee claimed to have a combined 50 pages of communication between Watson and the women, and he said none of the phone numbers Watson provided had been used in those communications.
 
Why does anyone have 6-7 telephone numbers? That's sketchy AF.

*Disclaimer: The above is not an accusation or assumption of guilt or innocence and is merely a reflection of the opinion of Double Barrel that anyone with 6-7 telephone numbers seems sketchy AF.
 
Texansballer74 said:
Hearsay dude. You can’t actually prove anything in this type of situation. But you can say 20+ women. Something is not right. Again what if it was your daughter or wife? What the heck would you say or do?
And you started the soap box, so how about you climb down from your high horse.
Mods can you please move this to the right thread. Thanks in advance
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I have 3 daughters, a wife, 2 sisters, 3 nieces and a gang of important women in my life, and I would still say until proven guilty, we don't know. Accusations are just that no matte
 
leebigeztx said:
I have 3 daughters, a wife, 2 sisters, 3 nieces and a gang of important women in my life, and I would still say until proven guilty, we don't know. Accusations are just that no matte
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And I do too. I also know a lot of women who have been rapped or sexually assaulted by their Daddy, uncles, cousins and slick jokers out there in those streets. Pretty darn sad on how we think as a nation when it comes to this situation. Knowing darn well those women will not be able to prove it dude slips up and releases.
 
djohn2oo8 said:
Nine no bills are unheard of, when a defendant is facing that many charges. Good luck to the DA in her next election. She will need it as her opponent will absolutely use this against her.
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I can’t see how she couldn’t bring it to a GJ regardless. High profile like this it has to be someone else’s decision not to press charges.

If she didn’t present to the GJ & decided not to press charges it would play out as she favored the rich guy.
 
djohn2oo8 said:
And I don’t care about hope, I care about justice. Some people care more about discussing trades more so than the actual conduct when there has been no movement in a year on that front. And the same people keep falling for the Mulugheta propaganda that he is feeding the media, over, and over, and over again.
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And justice is not condemning somebody off other's words alone. So now it's clear that there was no evidence all along. Just like I been saying.
 
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a lot of people on this site need to own up to their ridiculous claims and inside knowledge and scoops and admit they were wrong. The amount of crap DW4 has had to endure with very little information out there is outrageous. You should be ashamed of yourself. That's why believing what people say on a message board about "what they heard" is stupid.
 
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