Honestly...the Greg Hardy case is weird as hell
The fact that the accuser just up and disappeared feels ominous, but then I read this story on the Charlotte Observer that makes it seem like her story if not made up had pretty clear fallacies in there...enough that they won't even use her testimony as evidence.
This passage here in particular:
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Victims and witnesses routinely stop cooperating in domestic-abuse cases and prosecutors still take the cases to court. Murray, though, said the Hardy case was different. He also appeared to raise doubts about Holder’s credibility in a statement to the judge.
But other details also raised unanswered questions about prosecutors’ handling of the case. Hardy’s defense team announced an appeal of his conviction before leaving court in July. But Murray said prosecutors only “recently” had compared what Holder told police the night of the alleged assault with her testimony at Hardy’s first trial.
That’s because prosecutors didn’t have a trial transcript. Hardy’s defense team did – attorney Chris Fialko hired a court reporter at Hardy’s trial in District Court where transcripts are not normally prepared. According to court records, Fialko also fought the prosecution’s request for a copy of the transcript in the weeks leading up to Hardy’s trial this week.
Murray’s office would not elaborate on what prosecutors found when they compared Holder’s statements, but the district attorney said in court that with Holder unavailable, they “did not have sufficient legal basis” to enter her statements to police as evidence.
Several legal experts around town speculated that prosecutors spotted inconsistencies that prevented them from building their case around Holder’s former accounts. To enter an unavailable witness’s prior testimony and statements as evidence, prosecutors have “to vouch” for its truthfulness, said Charlotte defense attorney George Laughrun.
“If they’re seeing something in the evidence that gives them pause, they may have been placed in a ethical dilemma where they don’t want to vouch for their witness.”
Defendants also have the right to confront every witness, said Charlotte attorney Jim c00ney. Fialko may have successfully blocked Holder’s previous testimony and statements to police as a violation of this constitutional protection."
Here's the full story:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/incoming/article10422650.html
On the field it's a great move for the Cowboys...but the off the field story around Hardy is definitely worth being watched.
to his fake outrage.
