TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State University says it’s settling a lawsuit with a woman who said she was raped by former star quarterback Jameis Winston.
FSU President John Thrasher announced terms Monday. Thrasher says FSU will pay Erica Kinsman $250,000 and her attorneys $700,000.
Thrasher says the university is settling to avoid spending millions on the lawsuit.
Kinsman says the university failed to respond to allegations that Winston sexually assaulted Kinsman. She has a separate lawsuit pending against Winston.
Winston, now starting quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, denied Kinsman’s allegation. FSU cleared him of wrongdoing.
A prosecutor didn’t press criminal charges, saying there were gaps in Kinsman’s story and insufficient evidence for a conviction.
The Associated Press doesn’t routinely identify people who say they’re sexual assault victims. However, Kinsman told her story publicly in a documentary and filed lawsuits.
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Donald Trump will have to be sure to trash Kinsman in an upcoming rally.
There’s something wrong about this. I have nothing against lawyers getting what they deserve, but almost 75% of the settlement?
Oddly enough, that was my takeaway from this story too. Her lawyers are getting almost 3 times as much as the actual victim of the crime? That’s extremely irksome.
That’s a lot of green to paper over “the holes in her story”, Mr. Prosecutor-Man. I bet there’s enough left over to hide some errors in “due process” too!
That reminds me of the trouble that lawyer Chesley and his buddies encountered in the fhen-fhen case.