Matt Araiza (Drafted by Bills) Is Now An Accused Rapist

Matt Araiza Drafted by Bills Now Accused Rapist

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It is inevitable that the terms distortion, prevarication, and embellishment will enter into the discussion at some point, as well as into the potential trial, regarding this matter. Other terms that will be bantered about are perversion, kidnapping, life imprisonment, castration, and sexual predators.

The only thing currently missing to complete the all American crime story is a firearm used by the girl's revenge fueled family member to gun down the famous football playing rapist. That would be the ending Hollywood is hoping for to complete next year's blockbuster movie entitled:

And With the 180th pick in the 2022 NFL Draft ...
The Matt Araiza Story
 

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IF the time table matches, they cut a punter while knowing what was going on w/ Araiza. Bills f’d this up big time.

they all but admitted they did I don't know if they just hadn't seen the full story yet or if they somehow didn't realize how horrible it was going to look.

Even after the story broke their initial action was to have Araiza sit out the game and then after the game the next day or so they cut him.
 

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I get that parents are going to defend their son but what are they talking about? This happened almost a year ago, since then he got to play his last year of college, get drafted, go through rookie and regular camp. They cut the other punter. he got to live his life for nearly a year, everyone acting like he was in fact innocent because most of them didn't know about the allegation.

If he's innocent he will get a chance to prove it. Yes right now the court of public appeal is that he's done something wrong but that's because we're being told very clearly that he's on tape by detectives admitting to having told the girl she needs to get tested for STD's and then clamming up when he realizes something seems odd. If that's not true tell us that, tell us that conversation didn't take place.

One of the reports that's out now is saying that his own teammates, and other student athletes at SDSU filed anonymous reports with the school reporting an alleged rape and named Araiza as one of the suspects, so the idea that this is just the victim and her lawyers "cancelling" him is not true, his own college teammates reported this
 

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Former Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza and former teammates on the San Diego State football team will not face criminal charges in connection with an alleged gang rape of a minor that occurred at an off-campus party in October 2021, the San Diego County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.

"Ultimately, prosecutors determined it is clear the evidence does not support the filing of criminal charges and there is no path to a potential criminal conviction," the district attorney's office said in a statement. "Prosecutors can only file charges when they ethically believe they can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt."

The DA's office said the San Diego Police Department did not recommend charges be filed when the case was submitted in early August.

A civil suit remains ongoing.

According to the release from the DA's office, sexual assault experts, including prosecutors and investigators, analyzed the evidence in the case, including over 35 taped witness interviews, the results of a Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) exam, DNA results and "forensic evidence from cell phones and video evidence of the incident itself."

The DA's office also said it "met with the young woman at the center of this case twice" and "worked with SDPD to conduct further investigation, which resulted in interviewing additional witnesses."
 

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Former Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza and former teammates on the San Diego State football team will not face criminal charges in connection with an alleged gang rape of a minor that occurred at an off-campus party in October 2021, the San Diego County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.

"Ultimately, prosecutors determined it is clear the evidence does not support the filing of criminal charges and there is no path to a potential criminal conviction," the district attorney's office said in a statement. "Prosecutors can only file charges when they ethically believe they can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt."

The DA's office said the San Diego Police Department did not recommend charges be filed when the case was submitted in early August.

A civil suit remains ongoing.

According to the release from the DA's office, sexual assault experts, including prosecutors and investigators, analyzed the evidence in the case, including over 35 taped witness interviews, the results of a Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) exam, DNA results and "forensic evidence from cell phones and video evidence of the incident itself."

The DA's office also said it "met with the young woman at the center of this case twice" and "worked with SDPD to conduct further investigation, which resulted in interviewing additional witnesses."

Sign him up. Andy Lee is about 90.
 

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Araiza released a statement through his agency that read, "I am grateful that the District Attorney and the San Diego Police Department have discovered all the facts and found no criminal wrongdoing. I am excited to continue my NFL career."

"I am never surprised when a prosecutor does not file sexual assault charges when the victim was intoxicated," the plaintiff's attorney, Dan Gilleon, said in a statement. "It's a very rare case where the criminal justice system achieves anything satisfactory for the victim in a sexual assault.

"The lawsuit we filed is not in the criminal justice system. ... It is only in the civil system that a victim of sexual assault can achieve justice, and we plan to do just that."

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I hope no one signs this guy. He is just trolling the victim with this statement, IMHO.
 

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What part of "not charged" did people miss?

I personally like to live in a world where the law decides if you have done wrong, not social media.
Ultimately I decide who i like and don't like.

I dont like this kid
 

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Ultimately I decide who i like and don't like.

I dont like this kid

Well yeah thats fair. It's not the same as "We shouldn't sign him because he's a rapist" though is it? Because the law says he isn't.
 

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Because the law says he isn't.
Dude, that's not what the law said at all. You have no concept of how the US justice system works, and your takes on it are embarrassing.

If a civil trial finds him guilty, where does the "law" come down on that?
 

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Dude, that's not what the law said at all. You have no concept of how the US justice system works, and your takes on it are embarrassing.

If a civil trial finds him guilty, where does the "law" come down on that?
I wouldn't be criticizing anyone's concept of the US justice system with statements like that. No one has ever been found "guilty" in a civil trial. The jury or the judge finds the defendant "liable", then assesses damages.
 

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I wouldn't be criticizing anyone's concept of the US justice system with statements like that. No one has ever been found "guilty" in a civil trial. The jury or the judge finds the defendant "liable", then assesses damages.
It’s a reasonable civil equivalent. In order for there to be damages there has to be some violation of a public law or ordinance. Lower standard of proof, but standard nonetheless.
 

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