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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. It's almost game day. The
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Speaker 1: countdown is odd for Super Bowl Sunday. The big game
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Speaker 1: goes down in just hours. But we'll wait a minute.
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Speaker 1: What about all those football stars? So many of them
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Speaker 1: have criminal histories. And the most recent football star that
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Speaker 1: is in trouble is twenty seven year old Chad Wheeler
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Speaker 1: location Seattle, Washington claim that when his girlfriend would not
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Speaker 1: bow down to him let me repeat, bow down to him,
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Speaker 1: he beat the stew out of her. Is that the
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Speaker 1: tip of the Iceberg Crime Stories with Nancy Grace? With
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Speaker 1: me an all star panel to try to apply logic
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Speaker 1: to an illogical situation of somebody bringing in millions of dollars, healthy, fit, young,
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Speaker 1: the world in front of him, but choosing to allegedly
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Speaker 1: commit a violent crime. With me renown criminal defense attorney
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Speaker 1: joining me out of La Troy Slayton at Floyd Scarin
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Speaker 1: Law dot com. Doctor Angela Arnold Psychiatrists joining me out
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Speaker 1: of the Atlanta Jurisdiction at Angela Arnold, MD dot com.
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Speaker 1: Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My
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Speaker 1: Feet on Amazon and star of a brand new hit
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Speaker 1: series on the true crime Network, Poisonous, the Liaisons Joseph
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Speaker 1: Scott Morgan death investigator and special guest joining us for
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Speaker 1: the first time. Let the hazing begin on Charles Robinson.
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Speaker 1: This guy, senior NFL reporter. He is specialized in the
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Speaker 1: NFL investigative reporting. It's a co host on Yahoo's Sports
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Speaker 1: NFL podcaster at Twitter, he's at Charles Robinson. That is
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Speaker 1: a mouthful, and I'm sure there's more. But Charles, before
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Speaker 1: I go on and on about all of your impressive credentials,
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Speaker 1: what happened with Chad Wheeler? Well, it's a mess for
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Speaker 1: the NFL. I mean to put it short on Friday. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, Charles,
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Speaker 1: this is not really like a telecast that you would
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Speaker 1: normally do. This is like four or five very angry
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Speaker 1: family members who disagree on everything. Forget religion and politics,
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Speaker 1: I mean everything. I say, what happened? And you say
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Speaker 1: it's a mess for the NFL? What about the girl
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Speaker 1: that took a booty beating extraordinaire because she would not
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Speaker 1: bound down allegedly to Chad Wheeler. Wouldn't wouldn't that be
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Speaker 1: the most serious problem? Yes, obviously, the victim in this
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Speaker 1: case is first and foremost that we want to think
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Speaker 1: about here. It's photos have emerged of the victim that
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Speaker 1: are awful, beyond awful, bloody, beaten, you know, bruised, and
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Speaker 1: again leaning towards the NFL. This is exactly what gives
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Speaker 1: the NFL massive amounts of public relations problems. You know,
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Speaker 1: the criticism that mounts to the NFL on the eve,
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Speaker 1: as you said, of Super Bowl Sunday, happens less than
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Speaker 1: nine days removed from the grand stage, is nothing but
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Speaker 1: bad news for the NFL. But you know, this is
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Speaker 1: a situation where you have a woman who's dating a
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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks offensive lineman. She gets beaten, she locks herself
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Speaker 1: in the bathroom, calls the police, tells them she believes
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Speaker 1: that he's trying to kill her. And now he's pled
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Speaker 1: not guilty to three counts of not only domestic battery,
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Speaker 1: resisting arrest with the police department, and demanded he resist arrest.
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Speaker 1: Charles Robinson special guests joining US co host of Yahoo
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Speaker 1: Sports NFL podcast Because Knee Report out from TMZ. My
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Speaker 1: friend Harvey Levin over there says that it took not one,
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Speaker 1: not two, but three police officers to detain the massive
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Speaker 1: NFL lineman Chad Wheeler during a domestic violence bloody rampage
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Speaker 1: at his girlfriend's apartment. The Cobs described the battle like
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Speaker 1: they were trying to subdue a bear. What do you
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Speaker 1: know about that? Charles Robinson six foot seven pounds and
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Speaker 1: paid to fight off men as large as him on
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Speaker 1: a daily basis, and you had three officers attempting to
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Speaker 1: subdue him. They taste him, uh to little or no effect.
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Speaker 1: And I mean, this is someone that's huge, a man
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Speaker 1: that was so large they had to call in a
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Speaker 1: special police van after cuffing him to take him away
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Speaker 1: because they didn't think he would fit into the police cruiser.
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Speaker 1: And you know, that's that's part of the detail here
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Speaker 1: that so awful. When you consider the victim, the alleged
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Speaker 1: victim in this case, five foot nine, one hundred forty pounds,
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Speaker 1: it's it's about as awful as as a domestic violence
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Speaker 1: incident can get short of, you know, ending, and how
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Speaker 1: Chad Wheeler clearly thought it was going to end in
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Speaker 1: her death. And now you have him claiming that, hey,
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Speaker 1: this is a mental health episode. In the police report,
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Speaker 1: she had stated that she believes he was off of
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Speaker 1: his medication for bipolar disorder, and that's what triggered this event.
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Speaker 1: But it's not the first incident in his past. In
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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, when he played for USC police officers were
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Speaker 1: called to an apartment where he had barricaded himself in
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Speaker 1: with another young woman and he was punching holes in
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Speaker 1: walls and windows and had to be subdued in that
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Speaker 1: instance with bean bags and taken to a hospital for
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Speaker 1: mental health evaluation. So this is not the first incident.
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Speaker 1: We wait, wait, you lost me just a moment, Charles Robinson.
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Speaker 1: It's like drinking out of the fire hydress too much,
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Speaker 1: too fast? Are you telling me that Chad wheel Or
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Speaker 1: had another incident baiting a woman. He had another domestic
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Speaker 1: against it. He not beat the woman that In that instance,
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Speaker 1: he barricaded himself into an apartment with the woman and
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Speaker 1: her seven month old son and was destroying the apartment
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Speaker 1: and when the police arrived, he had to be taken
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Speaker 1: into an into custody through the use of bean bags
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Speaker 1: because he would not listen to officers, and he was
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Speaker 1: taken to a hospital for mental health evaluation, but never
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Speaker 1: charged in that incident, despite again destroying this apartment. The
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Speaker 1: NFL was well aware of this incident, and it was
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Speaker 1: part of the reason why after being a star at
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Speaker 1: USC for four years, he was not drafted in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Was signed as undrafted treating, which is very rare for
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Speaker 1: a player of that caliber at USC. But the NFL
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Speaker 1: was clearly aware of this guy's past when he came
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Speaker 1: into the league and Jesse's got Morgan death investigator Professor Forensics,
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville State University. When Charles Robinson, the senior NFL reporter
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Speaker 1: Yahoo Sports NFL podcast co host says beanbags, We're not
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Speaker 1: talking about John David throwing the bean bag at Lucy.
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Speaker 1: What's he talking about now? What he's talking about, Nancy
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Speaker 1: is this is referred to as less than lethal force.
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Speaker 1: Generally is fired out of a shotgun. It's similar to
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Speaker 1: a twelve gage, which is one of the largest rounds
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Speaker 1: you can have, but instead of having led pellets in it, Okay,
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Speaker 1: it actually has a bean bag discharge and it's an
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Speaker 1: inertial energy weapon, so that what happens is the blast
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Speaker 1: from the shotgun drives that beanback forward and it strikes.
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Speaker 1: It strikes the body and distributes all of that power
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Speaker 1: you would normally get from a shotgun blasts all over
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Speaker 1: the surface of the body. Is essentially knocks you down
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Speaker 1: just for a moment. It shocks your system, is what
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Speaker 1: it does, just so that somebody can subdue you, get
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Speaker 1: their hands on you, and bring the situation to a
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Speaker 1: less than a leafol ending crime stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: As the Big Game Day approaches this Sunday, I'm all
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Speaker 1: about wow to my twins, what do you want for snacks?
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Speaker 1: Who's the halftime show? What commercials are going to be
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Speaker 1: the big hits this year? But speaking of big hits,
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Speaker 1: we learned that Seattle Seahawk Chad Wheeler in major, major
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Speaker 1: trouble after a meltdown on his girlfriend. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to this and NFL players accused of almost beating his
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Speaker 1: girlfriend to death. And now we're hearing the terror she
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Speaker 1: says she went through. The victim is whispering because she's
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Speaker 1: hiding in a locked bathrooms room. Now. At one point
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Speaker 1: she texts nine one one because she was too afraid
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Speaker 1: to speak out loud. Please come in. He's trying to
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Speaker 1: kill me. Reads the text. Break down the door. Now
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Speaker 1: you're hearing our friends an inside edition. Take another listen.
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Speaker 1: According to court documents, the fight broke out when her boyfriend,
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Speaker 1: twenty seven year old Chad Wheeler allegedly asked her to
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Speaker 1: bow down to him. When she refused, he strangled her
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Speaker 1: with both hands until she passed out, leaving noticeable finger
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Speaker 1: prince on both sides of her neck. When she regained consciousness,
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Speaker 1: Wheeler remarked, Wow, you're alive. That's when she fled into
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Speaker 1: the bathroom and locked the door, at which point cops
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Speaker 1: say Wheeler picked the lock. On the nine one one tape,
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Speaker 1: you can hear the moment he breaks in. Wheeler is
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Speaker 1: six foot seven and weighs three hundred ten pounds. I
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Speaker 1: know that we heard earlier that there were claims he
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Speaker 1: was simply off his meds, but picking the lock to
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Speaker 1: get into the girlfriend to continue to terrorize her. Choice
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Speaker 1: letton high profile criminal defense attorney joining me out of
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Speaker 1: LA That shows a clear intent mal intent. What about it, Slayton,
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Speaker 1: It certainly doesn't look good. And he's been arraigned on
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Speaker 1: those several charges. Like any good defense attorney, they entered
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Speaker 1: a plea of not guilty to the charges so that
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Speaker 1: way they can have time to negotiate with prosecutors. It
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Speaker 1: looks very clear, Nancy, that this is going to be
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Speaker 1: a case for his defense team as far as mitigating
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Speaker 1: the charges and not a question of whether or not
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Speaker 1: he's going to be found guilty of something. Troy Troy,
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Speaker 1: I hear you talking about mitigating or lessening the severity
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Speaker 1: of his charges. But this is not his first time
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Speaker 1: at the rodeo. He just heard Charles Robinson from Yahoo
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Speaker 1: talking about a previous incident where he took his girlfriend
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Speaker 1: and baby host psychological breakdown, a prior psychological incident where
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Speaker 1: he was taken to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
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Speaker 1: This is a guy who's on bipolar medication, so clearly
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Speaker 1: he's got a mental problem, and so as part of
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Speaker 1: any plea, a good prosecutor and defense team is going
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Speaker 1: to make sure that he gets the treat meant that
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Speaker 1: he needs, and he can get all that treatment behind bars.
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Speaker 1: Because if you know the law differently than I do, TROYE. Layton,
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Speaker 1: the law is very clear that voluntary use of drugs
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Speaker 1: or alcohol is not a defense unless you are absolutely comatose,
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Speaker 1: in which case you wouldn't be able to do anything
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Speaker 1: wrong anyway because you're passed out. But mental voluntary use
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Speaker 1: of drugs or alcohol, it's not a defense. Absolutely not, Nancy.
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Speaker 1: But mental illness is a mitigating factor. If he was
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Speaker 1: suffering from a mental not not saying that he was
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Speaker 1: not guilty by reason of insanity or something like that,
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Speaker 1: or he wasn't capable of knowing right from wrong, but
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Speaker 1: having a mental illness is a mitigating factor that the
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Speaker 1: judge will use when determining his sentence. Back to Charles Robinson,
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Speaker 1: seen your NFL reporter, If I am stand the facts correctly, Charles,
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Speaker 1: this would have to be an extremely, extremely temporary bout
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Speaker 1: with disassociation because he was eating, He was hanging around
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend's apartment after he beat her to Smith of rains,
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Speaker 1: he continued very calmly, slurping his smoothie and having coherent conversations.
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Speaker 1: Is that right, That's correct? And he apologized. The police
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Speaker 1: upon entering the residence and the bathroom caught him in
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Speaker 1: the midst of an apology. So clearly he had known
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Speaker 1: at that point what he had done was wrong. And
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Speaker 1: you know this the statement that she was that was
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Speaker 1: reflected in the police report. Oh you while you're still alive.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he was cognizant of what was going on
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Speaker 1: around him, whether or not. You know, that's something that
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Speaker 1: can take place in the middle of a mental health episode. Well,
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Speaker 1: you're asking me how you know a watch is made.
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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you the time. Okay. Like he beat her,
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Speaker 1: there's no question about that. He apologized for it. He's
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Speaker 1: come out and said he's walking away from football to
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Speaker 1: get himself together. So there's some element of admission on
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Speaker 1: his part. Now, you know, we're going to talk about
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Speaker 1: what can mitigate that. I'm not a defense attorney, I'm
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Speaker 1: not a prosecutor. I can only tell you that she
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Speaker 1: was beaten. There's no question about that. He did it.
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Speaker 1: There's no question about that. He's apologized for it, and
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Speaker 1: he's going to have to pay a price, not only
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Speaker 1: from the NFL, but obviously legally as well well. The
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Speaker 1: fact that he apologized clearly indicates he knew what he
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Speaker 1: did was wrong, and the girlfriend also says, according to reports,
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Speaker 1: that she could hear him after the beating talking on
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Speaker 1: the fence. She thinks to his father and in response
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Speaker 1: to Hey, what are you doing, he says, Chad Wheeler,
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Speaker 1: I'm just chilling. Okay, Doddry Angela Arnold, what do you
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Speaker 1: make of it? I'll tell you something, Nancy. The first
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Speaker 1: thing that I'm thinking about is who diagnosed the man
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Speaker 1: with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is not something that when
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Speaker 1: somebody comes in after an incident, you talk to them and, oh,
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Speaker 1: my goodness, all of a sudden, you give this person
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Speaker 1: a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Typically, to give a person
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Speaker 1: a diagnosis of bipolar disorder takes some time, and that
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Speaker 1: you have to see some patterns of behavior and things
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Speaker 1: like that. So I'm not buying the diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
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Speaker 1: And I'm very protective of my patient population, and i
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Speaker 1: don't think it's right to hide behind a diagnosis of
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Speaker 1: bipolar disorder and say, oh, that's why I'm beating everybody up.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not buying this diagnosis. Time Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: This is, by fart, not the first time in NFL
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Speaker 1: has gotten into serious criminal trouble. Take a listen to
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Speaker 1: our cut twenty Karen Travers at ABC does the name
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Speaker 1: ray Rice ring A Belle. Listen. The incident took place
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Speaker 1: in February in an elevator at the Revel Casino in
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Speaker 1: Atlantic City. You can see Rice hitchen a palmer who
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Speaker 1: charges back at him. Then Rice lands a punch that
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Speaker 1: knocks her out. In May, Rice entered a pre trial
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Speaker 1: diversion program that, if completed, would mean the assault charge
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Speaker 1: would be dropped. The star running back spoke to the
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Speaker 1: media in late July, saying repeatedly, he made the biggest
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Speaker 1: mistake of his life that night. My excellent, inexcusable. But
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Speaker 1: the two game band sparks significant backlash, many asking why
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Speaker 1: the NFL went so easy on Rice. In response, the
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Speaker 1: league announced a new domestic violence policy. First time offenders
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Speaker 1: get a six game suspension. A second offense results in
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Speaker 1: a lifetime ban. You know, I've always thought, Charles Robinson,
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Speaker 1: senior NFL reporter, that if that had not been caught
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Speaker 1: on the elevator, am that nothing would ever have come
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Speaker 1: of it, because, as I recall, you can see him
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Speaker 1: actually dragging her off. Yes, there was a video of
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Speaker 1: the initial video that came out, you could see him
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Speaker 1: dragging her out of the elevator, but the strike was
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Speaker 1: video that came out later. But you're right, the video
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Speaker 1: changed everything for the NFL, not only everything in the
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Speaker 1: Ray Rice case, but I think everything in terms of
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Speaker 1: a domestic violence pent Pole moment for the NFL. It
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Speaker 1: was on the heels of the ray Rice case that
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Speaker 1: they hired a domestic violence zar and Lisa Friel, who
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Speaker 1: still holds that position in the NFL now and launched
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Speaker 1: this very opaque investigative process into domestic violence. But the
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Speaker 1: Ray Rice cases, probably, I would say, very emblematic of
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Speaker 1: how the NFL tends to deal with domestic violence cases,
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Speaker 1: and that is it ramps up if something publicly comes out,
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Speaker 1: whether it's video, whether it's photos, at that dramatically as
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Speaker 1: the stance. And I would even say the momentum in
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Speaker 1: some of these NFL investigations only if it's made public.
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Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. Charles Robinson, senior NFL reporter
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Speaker 1: and you can find him. He co hosts Yahoo Sports
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Speaker 1: NFL podcast Take a Listen. I became aware of the
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Speaker 1: background on LT Lawrence Taylor when he was a contestant
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Speaker 1: on Dancing with the Stars. I think the season after
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Speaker 1: I was on Dancing with Stars. I can't remember the season,
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Speaker 1: but that's just the tip of his fame, or let
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Speaker 1: me say infamy. Take a listen to Brian Thomas with
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Speaker 1: Associated Press. A grand jury has indiced in Pro Football
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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor on charges of a third
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Speaker 1: degree rape and patronizing hum prostitute. The indictment follows his
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Speaker 1: May sixth the rest when prosecutors say he paid a
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Speaker 1: sixteen year old girl three hundred dollars to have sex
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Speaker 1: with him. The former linebacker was also indicted on charges
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Speaker 1: of endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse
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Speaker 1: and criminal sexual act in the third degree. If convicted,
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Speaker 1: he faces up to four years in prison. And take
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Speaker 1: a listen to my friend, Shep Smith then at Fox Today,
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Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor left a courtroom after pleading guilty to sex
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Speaker 1: to having sex with an underaged prostitute. He's now a
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Speaker 1: registered sex offender, will spend six years on probation, but
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Speaker 1: he won't spend any time in jail. NFL Hall of
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Speaker 1: Favor Lawrence Taylor. Taylor with US now in studio VI. Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you. Today you pleaded guilty to having
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Speaker 1: sex with an underaged woman. She was sixteen. She claims
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Speaker 1: you should have known it, did you. No, that's not
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Speaker 1: my moo. I've been you know, I've been round kids
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Speaker 1: and people all my life. You know, I'm not the
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Speaker 1: cause of prostitution, and I've sometimes I make mistakes and
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Speaker 1: I may go out there, but I didn't pick her up,
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Speaker 1: no day, go on a playground. She wasn't at the
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Speaker 1: hiding behind a school bus. So getting off a school bus.
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Speaker 1: This is this is a working girl that came to
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Speaker 1: my other and came to my room, and I don't
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Speaker 1: know what her age was, didn't know. I asked her age.
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Speaker 1: She told me she was nineteen. Okay, I'm just surprised
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Speaker 1: somebody would still even say that. I thought she was
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Speaker 1: nineteen if I remember correctly. The girl, Charles Robinson's senior
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Speaker 1: NFL reporter, was also beaten by the man that forced
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Speaker 1: her into prostitution, and he beat the girl and drove
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Speaker 1: her to Lt. Lawrence Taylor's hotel room out the suburbs.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I still don't understand how this guy walked
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Speaker 1: away with no jail time, because they keep saying so
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Speaker 1: x with a minor that is rape. Under the law,
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Speaker 1: a minor cannot consent to sex period without consent. Sex
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Speaker 1: without consent equals rape. I don't know how Lawrence Taylor
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Speaker 1: walked with no genil time. Charles Robinson, once again, we're
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Speaker 1: talking about the mitigating circumstances, and Lawrence Taylor's story was
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Speaker 1: I thought she was nineteen. I asked her. She said
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Speaker 1: she was nineteen. The girl never refuted telling him her age,
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Speaker 1: and again he says, I don't know what transpired prior
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Speaker 1: to her arriving at my room. He's since then in
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Speaker 1: that moment what we just listened to, and even in
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Speaker 1: subsequent moments admitted that, Hey, you know, I've gotten involved
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Speaker 1: with prostitutes, and I don't know what occurs before they arrive.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm I make you know, he's saying, I
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Speaker 1: make mistakes, and there's no way for me to know
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Speaker 1: how old this girl was. And apparently this was something
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Speaker 1: that prosecutors bought. And his lack of any kind of
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Speaker 1: criminal history prior to this, I think, you know, factored
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Speaker 1: into that. And but Agen, this is it's not a
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Speaker 1: good look for the NFL because this is an an
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Speaker 1: iconic player that now is connected to this for you know,
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Speaker 1: for the rest of his life, and every time you
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Speaker 1: talk about him, there you go again for Arles Robinson.
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Speaker 1: We're worried that Lawrence Taylor had his reputation tainted. Early
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Speaker 1: Thursday morning, and I am quoting from an ESPN report
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Speaker 1: early Thursday morning, Davis the pimp punched and kicked the
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Speaker 1: girl drove her to Lawrence Taylor's hotel against her will,
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Speaker 1: told her she had to have sex with Lawrence Taylor.
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Speaker 1: This is according to police. When she refused, Davis handed
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Speaker 1: her over to Taylor, who sex assaulted her, they said.
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Speaker 1: Cop said Taylor paid her three hundred dollars which she
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Speaker 1: had to hand over to Davis. And during all of this,
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Speaker 1: the little girl as sending text messages to her uncle
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Speaker 1: telling him what was happening, and he went straight to
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Speaker 1: the ny PD. Now, um, wait a minute, Davis, the
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Speaker 1: pimp was rested on charges of unlawful imprisonment, assault. It
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Speaker 1: goes on and on and on. Now, how did this
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Speaker 1: guy walk free? How did that happen? Doctor Angela Arnold?
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Speaker 1: And what universe is that okay to pimp out a
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Speaker 1: teen girl, order her up like she's Chinese delivery or
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Speaker 1: a pizza. She comes in having been beaten, obviously beaten up. Well,
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Speaker 1: why didn't he go to jail? I have no idea.
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Speaker 1: And Nancy, oh my god, what is to speak to why?
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a reason why this little girl is
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Speaker 1: in prostitution. It's a horrible reason. And all of that's
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Speaker 1: just going to be forgotten. There's no protection for this child,
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Speaker 1: none whatsoever, and it's all so wrong. I hate to
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Speaker 1: pile on, get it, pile on, but take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our cut. One is his ABC News reporter Ryan Smith.
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Speaker 1: Darren Sharper was one of the best players of the
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Speaker 1: past decade in the NFL. Now he's facing Now he's
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Speaker 1: in jail for numerous sexual assault charges. I real life
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Speaker 1: jackal and Hyde, who at one point supported women's causes
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Speaker 1: but later went on to attack women all over the country.
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Speaker 1: Darren Sharper will just super bold jail. The things that
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Speaker 1: I've done in the past has been able to help
24:47
Speaker 1: teams win, burning millions over fourteen NFL seasons and later
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Speaker 1: shining is an NFL TV analyst. You don't want to
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Speaker 1: have bad team chemistry, but this morning the Gridiron great
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Speaker 1: suffering a staggering fall from grace. How do you leave
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Speaker 1: to the charge After admitting he's been leading a double
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Speaker 1: life as a serial rapist, authorities say Sharper sexually assaulted
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Speaker 1: or attempted to assault at least nine women in four
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Speaker 1: states over five months, after rendering some of them unconscious
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Speaker 1: by lacing their drinks with a generic form of ambient.
25:23
Speaker 1: That's our friend formerly of HL and Ryan Smith reporting
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Speaker 1: Charles Robinson, Darren Sharper, same thing, everything at his fingertips, money, power, wealth, fame,
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Speaker 1: good health, at the top of his game, and yet
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Speaker 1: was having to drug women to rape them. Yeah, this
25:46
Speaker 1: was probably one of the more shocking things that you'd
25:51
Speaker 1: ever seen developed from someone who had a sterling reputation.
25:58
Speaker 1: People who are close to him, for deck Cads, Uh
26:01
Speaker 1: could not believe that that this was something that occurred.
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Speaker 1: And I think even the prison sense, given what what transpired,
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Speaker 1: seemed light. You know, twenty years um for the number
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Speaker 1: of crimes that he was alleged to have committed and
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Speaker 1: in such a short span of time. And again we're
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Speaker 1: just talking about a period of time where you know,
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Speaker 1: does the thief get caught the first time he steals something?
26:26
Speaker 1: You know? Is this the first and only five month
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Speaker 1: period in which Darren Sharper might have um sexually abused women,
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Speaker 1: you know, raped women, drugged women. Um, it's uh. It
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Speaker 1: was definitely a moment in in NFL history that um,
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Speaker 1: I think no one could have ever anticipated with with
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Speaker 1: this individual. And again it continues a theme, a storyline
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Speaker 1: of of individuals from within that sport who attack and
26:57
Speaker 1: commit crimes that are unthinkable, unspeakable, and yet it gets
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Speaker 1: woven into sort of what part of the NFL's culture
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Speaker 1: crime stories with Nancy Grace. For those of you just
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Speaker 1: joining us, we're all getting ready for the big game.
27:29
Speaker 1: The match on Sunday is super Bowled Sunday, and yes,
27:33
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be watching. My husband's going to be watching,
27:36
Speaker 1: our children are going to be watching. We can't wait
27:39
Speaker 1: to see the halftime show. We can't wait to see
27:42
Speaker 1: all the commercials, to see the game itself. It's a
27:45
Speaker 1: big deal. It's super fun. I would never mention any
27:50
Speaker 1: of this to my twins age just thirteen. But as
27:52
Speaker 1: I look at all of the modern day gladiators out
27:55
Speaker 1: there on the field, I know there's another side that
27:59
Speaker 1: is very often swept under the rug, and I can't
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Speaker 1: let that happen. We're talking about right now, Seattle Seahawk
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Speaker 1: Chad Wheeler. Take a listen to our cut thirteen. This
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Speaker 1: is NFL anchor with ESPN Laura Rutler's and reporter Adam
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Speaker 1: schefterl Chad Wheeler, who played five games for the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: this past season, has been released from jail on a
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Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars bond after being arrested for felony
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Speaker 1: assault domestic violence. He's accused of throwing a woman on
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Speaker 1: a bed, strangling her before she lost consciousness, and picking
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Speaker 1: the lock to a bathroom where she had fled to
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Speaker 1: call nine one. Adam schefter with us, Adam, what more
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Speaker 1: can you tell us? Lord? These are highly troubling charges,
28:44
Speaker 1: and the Seattle Seahawks this afternoon pointed out that Chad
28:48
Speaker 1: Wheeler is no longer a member of that team because
28:51
Speaker 1: his contract is up and he will not be brought
28:54
Speaker 1: back to that team. Also, the Seahawks released a very carefully,
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Speaker 1: strongly and a worded statement in which they basically said
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Speaker 1: that they condemned domestic violence, that Chad Wheeler is somebody
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Speaker 1: that should seek help at this point in time, and
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Speaker 1: they listed the number of the national hotline that people
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Speaker 1: should call for help for domestic violence. Joining me an
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Speaker 1: all star panel, Tchice Ltton, high profile lawyer out of
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Speaker 1: LA renounced psychiatrists out of the Atlanta jurisdiction, doctor ANGELA Arnold,
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Speaker 1: forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, and senior NFL reporter Charles Robinson.
29:32
Speaker 1: In the excitement of Super Bowl Sunday and the huge
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Speaker 1: amount of promo it receives, and rightfully so, it's a
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Speaker 1: family event for families to enjoy. Charles Robinson. I guess
29:48
Speaker 1: the NFL, which is none of this had ever happened. Yeah.
29:51
Speaker 1: I think the NFL wishes everyone would move beyond it,
29:54
Speaker 1: and the NFL's on nothing. That's the striking thing about
29:57
Speaker 1: the Chad Wheeler case is that, well the Seattle Seahawks
30:02
Speaker 1: waved Chad Wheeler and have essentially said we're no longer
30:07
Speaker 1: going to be tied to this individual. The NFL has
30:10
Speaker 1: made no statement whatsoever. And I think for the NFL,
30:14
Speaker 1: it follows a history of something entering the legal realm.
30:19
Speaker 1: The NFL sits back and says we're gonna let the
30:21
Speaker 1: legal realm play out before we have to act it.
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Speaker 1: But technically, if Chad Wheeler is no longer in the
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Speaker 1: NFL and he says he's walking away from football, I
30:30
Speaker 1: don't know if that means retirement or whatnot. The NFL
30:34
Speaker 1: could essentially do nothing about this. They could make no statement,
30:37
Speaker 1: there could be no punishment. There could be effectively no
30:41
Speaker 1: recourse on the NFL's part when it comes to Chad Wheeler,
30:44
Speaker 1: and I think there are people inside the league who
30:46
Speaker 1: are very upset about that, who think that regardless of
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Speaker 1: whether or not he's an NFL player, right now, the
30:54
Speaker 1: NFL should make a statement about what occurred with this
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Speaker 1: player and at the very least condemned the act, which
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Speaker 1: the NFL has not beyond the Seattle Seahawks, the private franchise,
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Speaker 1: It's right, they do need to step up and do
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Speaker 1: everything they can to stop violence committed on by their
31:14
Speaker 1: NFL members, even though they're not resigning him. Let me
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Speaker 1: understand something else, Charles Robinson, NFL Senior reporter. Is it
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Speaker 1: true I know that the former Seattle Seahawks offensive tackle
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Speaker 1: Chad Wheeler has just pled not guilty to criminal charges
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Speaker 1: of first degree domestic violence, assault, domestic violence, unlawful imprisonment,
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Speaker 1: and resisting arrest. Is it true that he asked if
31:39
Speaker 1: he could leave the Lower forty eight and go to Hawaii. Yeah, well,
31:44
Speaker 1: that's that's the allegation that he has requested leaving essentially,
31:50
Speaker 1: as you said, leaving the continent and going to Hawaii,
31:53
Speaker 1: which is I don't know what the standard is for
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Speaker 1: someone to be allowed to do something like that. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to happen in this case.
32:03
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that he was allowed to call flight to
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Speaker 1: bond out, to bond out the day after this time.
32:11
Speaker 1: I was surprised about that too, him bonding out to you.
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Speaker 1: Troy Slayton, the alleged victim in this case, appeared in
32:18
Speaker 1: court with her left arm in a sling. The prosecutor's
32:23
Speaker 1: office there in King County read a statement on her
32:25
Speaker 1: behalf where she resay the details about what happened, and
32:30
Speaker 1: she said she does not feel safe as long as
32:32
Speaker 1: Wheeler is out of custody. She also objected to Will's
32:36
Speaker 1: request he'd be allowed to stay at his home in Hawaii. Well,
32:40
Speaker 1: first of all, everyone's entitled to reasonable bail unless it's
32:44
Speaker 1: some sort of capital offense, and the only purpose of
32:47
Speaker 1: bail is to ensure that the person returns to court.
32:50
Speaker 1: And there's no evidence that he's had failures to appear
32:54
Speaker 1: or is any kind of flight risk, so it really
32:56
Speaker 1: doesn't He's only had one court appearance, so don't get
32:59
Speaker 1: too excited. Doesn't matter where he where he is, as
33:03
Speaker 1: long as he makes his court appearances. So right now
33:07
Speaker 1: he has a GPS. That's not true. Very often defendants
33:11
Speaker 1: cannot leave the jury has what you're talking about, has
33:15
Speaker 1: a GPS tracking device. And the reason why judges can
33:19
Speaker 1: they cut off. The reason why judges sometimes say that
33:23
Speaker 1: you can't leave the jurisdiction is to ensure that they
33:26
Speaker 1: make their court appearances and they don't run run away.
33:30
Speaker 1: And it's what I think you're agreeing that a judge
33:32
Speaker 1: can order that, because just a moment ago you said
33:36
Speaker 1: that you don't have to do that's impossible, but it's
33:38
Speaker 1: ordered all the time. That's why we have the monitoring.
33:42
Speaker 1: A victim in this case commented on where she wanted
33:46
Speaker 1: him to be or whether or not she's opposed, she
33:49
Speaker 1: really has no standing she wanted him in jail. Crime
33:53
Speaker 1: victims say that all the t in la in uh
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Speaker 1: in Seattle, or in Hawaii. She really has no standing
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Speaker 1: to say where he's going to reside while he's out
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Speaker 1: on pre trial relief. Did I ask you that, No,
34:10
Speaker 1: I did not ask you to comment on what the
34:12
Speaker 1: victim said. I asked you in a correction, I reminded
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Speaker 1: you that a judge can order a defendant not to
34:21
Speaker 1: leave the jurisdiction. That's following up on the NFL reporter
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Speaker 1: Charles Robinson saying he was surprised the guy even made bond.
34:28
Speaker 1: The police report states police forced entry into the apartment.
34:34
Speaker 1: She was crying in pain, her face covered in blood,
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Speaker 1: her left arm swollen, and limp laying on her body.
34:41
Speaker 1: She had fingerprint marks, fingerprint marks on both sides of
34:46
Speaker 1: her neck. That's in the police report. Joska Morgan, what
34:50
Speaker 1: does that mean when you have fingerprints on both sides
34:54
Speaker 1: of your neck? I mean his hand is as big
34:56
Speaker 1: as a Virginia ham, for Pete's sake, can wrap all
34:59
Speaker 1: the way around her. Yeah, she's been throttled, Nancy. She's
35:02
Speaker 1: been throttled by this fellow applying direct pressure to this area.
35:06
Speaker 1: And if you can see the images of her, Nancy,
35:10
Speaker 1: there's a there's a full on facial shot of her
35:13
Speaker 1: lying on a hospital journey, and you can actually see
35:18
Speaker 1: how admitus her head is. In other words, it's swollen.
35:21
Speaker 1: It's still swollen following this event because of the backup
35:25
Speaker 1: of blood, the lack of oxygen, and not to mention,
35:28
Speaker 1: she's got a tremendous amount of bloods that you can
35:30
Speaker 1: see this dried just beneath both nostles, her lips are swollen.
35:34
Speaker 1: It looks like she's been popped in the face. Can
35:36
Speaker 1: you imagine if you use that idea of a ham, uh,
35:40
Speaker 1: you know, you think about a small ham and it
35:43
Speaker 1: comes in in a can, that's that approximates the size
35:46
Speaker 1: of the sky's hands. And just you know, just as
35:50
Speaker 1: Charles has said earlier, just no six at seven, Nancy,
35:53
Speaker 1: he's three hundred pounds plus. He is a mountain of
35:56
Speaker 1: a man. It took three grown ass men to get
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Speaker 1: this guy down with a taser, and he's going to
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Speaker 1: attack this little woman like this. He did a number
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Speaker 1: on her, Nancy. And the fact that he's sitting there
36:12
Speaker 1: and he saying, Hey, I've got more to tell you,
36:15
Speaker 1: and I need you to analyze it. Scans have revealed
36:18
Speaker 1: a fractured, humorous dislocated elbow in her arm. Also, a
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Speaker 1: skin of the woman's chest shows indications she aspirated fluid.
36:27
Speaker 1: You can die that way, and she vomited large amounts
36:32
Speaker 1: of blood the following day. She can't swallow, she can't eat, chess, headache,
36:37
Speaker 1: neck pain, I guess she does. But when you aspirate,
36:41
Speaker 1: it means you breathe in the blood, or you can
36:44
Speaker 1: aspirate anything. That you're eating or drinking, you breathe it
36:48
Speaker 1: in and you choke to death. And this woman is
36:52
Speaker 1: actually vomiting up blood. Joe Sky, Yeah, she's probably you know,
36:57
Speaker 1: she's choking on her own vomit as well. And this
37:00
Speaker 1: causes again I'm going to use this word adma or swelling,
37:04
Speaker 1: not just to her face and her neck externally what
37:07
Speaker 1: you can see, it's also impacting her long stability to breathe.
37:11
Speaker 1: And you talk about these injuries that she has to
37:14
Speaker 1: her arm. To me, Nancy, that you know, when you're kid,
37:18
Speaker 1: you take somebody, you see somebody on the playground, take
37:20
Speaker 1: somebody's hand and bend it behind them and push the
37:23
Speaker 1: elbow up. Okay, kids do this for years, you know,
37:27
Speaker 1: you're roughhousing. That's where I think, imagine this gigantic mountain
37:31
Speaker 1: of a man doing this to this diminutive woman where
37:35
Speaker 1: he takes his hands because hey, in this guy's world,
37:38
Speaker 1: everybody outside the NFL is diminutive. All right, guys, we
37:43
Speaker 1: are talking about Chad Wheel or former Seattle Seahawk. And
37:47
Speaker 1: as we all gather around our TV this weekend, and
37:50
Speaker 1: yes we are, as my children watch the commercials, watch
37:55
Speaker 1: the game, watch the halftime show. You know what, I
37:59
Speaker 1: don't want to to know all this that's for mommy
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Speaker 1: to know, not them. We wait as justice and the
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Speaker 1: big game unfold. Nancy Grace Crime Story signing off Goodbye friend,