Rich was a pretty big name at the time in the city, for ball. Like a year before, it was Felipe Lopez. So he was the target even though she was topping off multiple dudes on the stairs, including Cam. They told Rich if he didn’t take the deal, he could get up to 7-8 years. They did an investigation with the girl’s lawyer, and couldn’t find any proof that any of the dudes forced her to do anything. And Rich was pleading innocent. But they threw the deal at him with the probation, just to end the whole sh*t. The girl’s story was changing too. It was like a routine for her to be on the stairs with dudes. But she told mad different versions of why she was there. The school didn't believe her.
The assistant principal told the cops she didn’t think Rich had anything to do with raping anybody. She made a whole statement and even went to the schools that were recruiting him and told them that he was innocent and being railroaded. She said the media and police treated him differently because he was black. The school was backing him. He said he didn’t do it the whole time, until they offered him that little deal with the probation. Dude was like a straight-A student getting offers from USC and wild other schools. Everybody back then knew he got done mad dirty with that.