that dashon Watson's criminal complaints were presented to
a grand jury and it dawned on me this morning. And I'm glad
I wrote about this earlier today.
It dawned on me that the fact that the prosecutor agreed to
present it. Now on the Friday before the start of the new
league year,
the opening of the window for Deshaun Watson to be officially
traded, that told me, there was a spirit of cooperation on
the part of the prosecutor, which led me to believe that
the prosecutor was not going to go into the Grand Jury Room.
Guns, blazing, trying to get an indictment because listen
and I retweeted Chef T's tweet. This is why DeShaun Watson from
the beginning. Welcome to police investigation. He felt
he knew that the truth would come out. And today,
a grand jury did not charge him on any of the criminal
complaints. Look, you don't understand the legal system if
the prosecutor wanted
DeShaun. Watson be indicted
he would have been indicted
on felony charges, misdemeanor charges, whatever. If
the prosecutor wants to do it, the prosecutor does it now? The
prosecutor decided, presumably based upon objective review of
the evidence that
The prosecutor wasn't gonna get a conviction
and that is one of the key factors that drives these decisions
the prosecutor may have thought. You know what? This guy
crossed the line,
but
Do I really want to devote time resources effort to a trial
against the guy? Who's got the money to go out and buy
the best lawyers? He can
and I got to deal with Johnnie Cochran
style skills
and prove guilt Beyond a reasonable doubt. That's
the problem. That's the challenge. So if the prosecutor wasn't in
the mood to take, on that case the prosecutor goes in with
a very different presentation of evidence
than if the prosecutor was determined to get an indictment. And
the reason that the lightbulb flickered for me today -
House, if the prosecutor really wanted to give DeShaun Watson
hard time. She just would have said I operate on my own
timetable. So it's convenient to Deshawn
to have this done before March, 16.
I don't care. I don't care. In fact,
the fact that you're trying to get me to do it before March 16
makes me less inclined to do it. But once I
I made that connection in my limited and impaired, synapses,
then I realized
the prosecutor is not going to make an aggressive. Ocean and
clearly she didn't or she did the grand jury rejected it.
So
where would the spirit of cooperation come from? And why
would that have it? Is it just that the the fact that she
didn't believe the case was going to be proven Beyond
a reasonable doubt.
It's either she didn't believe it was going to be proven
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt or she didn't believe there was
a violation of the law. She may have decided there wasn't
a crime committed
or right? If there was I'm not going to be able to prove it
now.
And so if you believe that At some point, you understand.
Okay. This guy's not going to be charged. Why do we want to
unnecessarily? Throw a wrench into his ability to get on with
his life.
He has been in limbo through through fault of his own.
This guy is in a victim,
but the point is
for a year. These claims have been hanging over him and
the legal system has not finished
with DeShaun Watson.
That's the other problem in Chef T's
tweet. Yes. Oh, Simpson was acquitted of murder
in Criminal Court.
He was found responsible for the deaths of two human beings
by deliberate. Killing
in Civil Court.
DeShaun. Watson could still be found to have violated
the rights of up to 22 individuals, just because he's not facing
criminal charges does not mean, he didn't do it. One of
the first things I learned in law. School
miles. Did you know, with the law school? One of the first
things I learned in law, school,
criminal law, first year, 1988, September
was Was there is a fundamental difference between factual guilt
and legal guilt and you may have factually done it but
whether or not you legally did, it is a different thing
altogether. And it only becomes
finalized when you plead guilty
or convicted plead no contest or otherwise enter into
an agreement that pins responsibility on you. That's
when you're legally guilty. You could be factually. I mean,
I wait. We know Jay Simpson, did it? Come on. He's factually
guilty of the murders of his ex-wife and Ronald
Goldman. We know that.
But he was never legally guilty. He was legally
responsible in civil court, and to this day. He still owes
Millions to the families,
but he was never legally guilty in criminal court. So, this
look,
I've been counseled by my wife
to not.
Jab at Chef D. But we know the game. Okay, one.
We know the grift. We know what he's trying to do here. We're
not look. Well. I'm going to say it Mi, I don't care. He
wants to be the one
he wants to be the one
who gets the news first. The DeShaun Watson is going to be
traded to wherever so he can beat the announcement by five
minutes and beat Ian Rapoport and everybody else at NFL media
and everybody at the Houston Chronicle and everybody
everywhere else
and he can be first
as he Rockets toward his free agency on June 1.
That's why he This to Curry favor with the Sean Watson's
Camp. It is obvious and I don't care if I'm the only one that
will say it. It's the truth.
And I mean, well, comparison to you. I mean in comparison to
the world because a lot of people tiptoe around and it's
bad form to say it. Well, it's bad form to do it. It's bad for
him to do it. Why is it bad for him to call it out?
I think it's, especially bad form.
When somebody has been accused of the things that DeShaun
Watson is accused of doing. And there is still an ongoing civil
court proceeding here
to just say, oh yes. Well, he was confident that the truth
would come out. I don't think we know exactly. Actually, what
the truth is here, right? I mean, it goes back to exactly
what you were just saying. There's a difference between
factual guilt and legal guilt.
And so, we don't really know
what exactly the facts are, especially because we're not privy
to what the prosecutor was saying
in this grand jury trial here today. So, I mean, this is not,
this is not something that I feel like we should be declaring
as Sports media whether or not the truth. Has come out or not,
especially given the nature of what DeShaun Watson has been
accused of doing. I find that bet. I found that to be
extremely inappropriate at best.
Well, and here's my next tweet,
the truth came out, real-time tweeting the truth came out on
the same day, that DeShaun Watson repeatedly
invoked finish it for me miles.
Repeatedly invoked
his Fifth Amendment, right?
To conceal the truth,
right? Is that fair incriminate himself? I think it is,
especially if they're Mike. Yeah, his Fifth,
Fifth. I don't know how to spell, Fifth, Fifth Amendment,
right? We got to finish this now that we're this far along,
you know, and that's a five letter word that could be on
word of one of these days. Oh,
against self-incrimination.
Oh boy. I hope autofill, you know, autofill helps me out
with everything else. Here we go. Here's here's the lawyer
for Deshaun Watson. The producer is wisely moving
the past this
here's the cleaner for Deshaun, Watson explaining why the fifth
amendment was indeed repeatedly invoked by DeShaun Watson
earlier today at his deposition.
As I've said before. I don't know a single lawyer in
the world that would let him answer questions. Why the very same
subject matter is being considered by Granger when
the grand jury gets to will be glad to
we'll be glad to answer any questions for these depositions
they want but
I think people are not quite aware. He is a very smart
capable guy. And he's followed the advice of his lawyers, but
he's more than willing to tell his side of it.
And now well now, okay, that I got no problem with that. I got
no problem with that.
He's being alloy, he's being DeSean Jackson's Council. Like
right. That's exactly right Council. Should be doing right,
right. It's a huge space protecting. He's protecting him
against saying. Something today.
That if the grand jury hadn't finished its work today. A
transcript would have been printed out by Tony Busby. It
would have been rushed over to the Grand. Jury Room would have
been given to the prosecutor when they picked up their work
on Monday and look at all this stuff.
The DeShaun Watson said, and maybe this changes your mind about
Sean Watson, so until the criminal Jeopardy has been
resolved in a way where you are not going to face
a trial, an indictment, any type of prosecution
you should
Invoke and protect your right against self-incrimination.
That's why it's there. However,
this is why Chef never should have tweeted. Would he treat
tweeted? You can't say the guy was confident. The truth is all
going to come out on the same day. The invoke the Fifth
Amendment over and over and over again because that
inherently is counter to the truth
coming out. It is a way to conceal. The truth
to protect yourself, a bench against being
convicted of a crime because our criminal justice system has
been established to protect the rights of the guilty in order
to ensure
that the innocent are never
wrongfully imprisoned as we know that
system does Actually work a lot of people who are innocent or
wrongfully imprisoned,
but think how many more would be if we didn't have these
protections baked into the Constitution? So,
yeah. And look, I'm sorry that we've spent five minutes
talking about this and
but but
this is the price you pay when you post one of these
transparent obvious
Curry.
Favoring or favor currying
easy for him to say favorite currying tweets on the brink of
DeShaun Watson
being traded to someone else
schefter now because he did that.
He's in the batter's box to get the scoop
and he's going to be even
more deserving, the scoop
given all the crap. He's going to take
for the tweet that he posted
all the more reason
for him to get the news first.
I mean, I guess so but you know, that's
that that's that that's
Prerogative, but that's reality, but that's reality.
It is really, that's the word. That's the world we live in,
and it is. But I just, I don't know. I think that there are
I think that there are lines. We maybe shouldn't cross
especially when we're talking about something like
accusations of sexual assault.
That's just the way I feel about it. And, you know, maybe
maybe I'm wrong about that. I don't know. But like I said,
I just say,
I found that tweet to be very inappropriate and, you know,
a little bit dismissive of What
these potential victims are these accusers? Maybe I should
say against DeShaun. Watson have potentially gone through.
I decide, I think that's flipping and I don't like that.
Yep,
look II.
That's the tweet that we've been talking about and, and go
ahead miles.
I'm already in enough trouble. Go ahead. Join me. No, I'm
trying. Well. No, I'm trying to kind of get us, maybe out of
this, but this is one of the things that you're not doing
a very good job.
You're not gonna let
me finish my sentence. That I was definitely not do a very
good job, but it was one of my finger Mayfield instead.
Well, then we'll just be here for the rest of the show. And
one of the things that Rusty Hardin was saying today, is
that, if there was no criminal indictment, then he was pretty
confident
that there are going to be a bunch of teams that are still
very interested in trading for Deshaun Watson. So, now that
we've seen that, there's no indictment Mike, do you feel
like we're sort of going to start hearing
DeShaun, Watson rumors, really start to heat up, because
frankly, we've already kind of started to see that especially
on the case of the Carolina Panthers.