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Todd Archer, ESPN Employees Author
Dallas police won’t pursue sexual assault costs towards Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, with a police spokesperson saying Thursday detectives decided there was inadequate proof an offense was dedicated.
The case stemmed from an alleged incident that occurred in 2017 during which a girl stated Prescott assaulted her at the back of an SUV in a strip membership car parking zone.
In March, Prescott filed a swimsuit looking for financial reduction in extra of $1 million after receiving a letter in January from attorneys Bethel and Yoel Zehaie on behalf of the girl stating they’d “forego pursuing legal costs, together with disclosing this data to the general public, in change for compensating her for the psychological anguish she has suffered. [The woman’s] damages are valued on the sum of $100,000,000.00.”
The lady filed a countersuit and legal costs after Prescott’s preliminary submitting.
“I wish to thank the Dallas Police Division and Dallas County District Attorneys’ workplace for his or her thorough investigation of the allegations towards Dak Prescott,” lawyer Levi McCathern stated. “As we knew they’d, they discovered nothing of their intensive exploration of the information that might help a legal prosecution. We’re assured that on the finish of regulation enforcement’s investigation into the extortion case that they are going to discover the accuser and her attorneys simply as responsible as Dak is harmless.
“As I’ve stated from the start, Dak is a good soccer participant, and a good higher human. He would by no means assault any girl. These false accusations have been introduced up seven years after the alleged occasions for one purpose and one purpose solely — to line the pockets of the accuser and her attorneys. Their habits is an affront to all of the true survivors of sexual assault.”
Yoel Zehaie launched an announcement in response to police not pursuing the costs noting that it sadly “takes some time for victims to return out and that makes it very tough to prosecute these circumstances.”
He added that he and Bethel Zehaie vow to proceed their authorized battle on behalf of their consumer.
“We’re continuing with our counterclaims, regardless that Levi McCathern is utilizing each tactic to stop us from going to court docket, together with making an attempt to order the regulation enforcement of the Dallas Cowboys towards us, i.e. Prosper [Police], to return after us,” the assertion continued.
On Monday, the girl’s attorneys filed a discover to dismiss Prescott’s swimsuit as a result of it violated Texas’ anti-SLAPP statute. In an electronic mail, Yoel Zehaie stated the statute prohibits many types of retaliatory lawsuits, together with ones meant to silence sexual assault victims.
“We’re within the strategy of setting it for a listening to, and are additionally nonetheless shifting ahead with the counterclaims,” Yoel Zehaie wrote within the electronic mail. “One of many circumstances we’re citing is one which Dak’s regulation agency has efficiently argued and gained. If we’re profitable, Dak may face extreme financial sanctions.”
McCathern stated the Zehaies have “misrepresented the related information and misconstrued the regulation because it applies to them,” including that they intend to file claims towards the defendants for malicious prosecution.
Final month, the girl’s lawsuit was dropped in Dallas County and moved to Collin County as a result of Prescott’s preliminary swimsuit looking for damages was introduced in that county.