The Facts:
Following up on the
ongoing story. ... As attorney Rusty Hardin said on Wednesday’s edition of The Dan Patrick Show, there turned out to be no surveillance video of the incident that resulted in Peterson being placed in handcuffs, allegedly after being punched in the face and roughed up by police. Coupled with, as Hardin claims, six eyewitnesses who contend Peterson did nothing wrong, it will be very difficult for prosecutors to believe they’ll get a conviction via the high standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Reported by Profootballtalk.com
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
As PFT's Mike Florio notes, aside from the fact that we still don’t know what he was being arrested for when he was resisting arrest in the first place, the key words for the potential Peterson prosecution are “reasonable” and “doubt.” And even they might not see it the same way, Hardin's plans to take the case to trial (assuming Peterson is willing to pay him the money it would cost to do so), Florio believes prosecutors would see money and time diverted from fighting real crimes to making an example out of a guy who apparently failed to leave a nightclub at closing time quickly enough -- and who might have mouthed off and made contact with an off-duty police officer. Florio's guess? "This one is going way, especially since Peterson is so widely regarded as anything but a problem child. ..." We agree. In fact, were it not for Hardin making an appearance on every media outlet willing to let him do so, it would already be forgotten.
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