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… We had no need to break down that amount.”Ĭlune pointed to the settlement document, which provides the breakdown cited by Thrasher but also notes in the following paragraph that the breakdown “does not necessarily reflect the allocation between Kinsman and her counsel.”

Though Thrasher said in his statement that Kinsman will receive $250,000 of the settlement and her attorneys will get $700,000, Kinsman’s lawyer, John Clune, told CNN that was not true and the attorneys fees “are not going to be anything close to $700,000. “With all the economic demands we face, at some point it doesn’t make sense to continue even though we are convinced we would have prevailed.” “We have an obligation to our students, their parents and Florida taxpayers,” he said. The main reason the school settled, Thrasher said, was to avoid millions of dollars in legal expenses.

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“Although we regret we will never be able to tell our full story in court, it is apparent that a trial many months from now would have left FSU fighting over the past rather than looking toward its very bright future,” Thrasher said, adding that he was confident the trial would’ve yielded the same conclusion as two investigations and a student conduct hearing that cleared Winston. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Florida State University has reached a $950,000 settlement with a former student who sued the school after alleging she was raped by Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Jameis Winston, school President James Thrasher said in a Monday statement.Įrica Kinsman has agreed to drop her Title IX lawsuit against the school, the statement said. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. Thanks very much, Tom.Ĭopyright © 2014 NPR. But none of that is expected to happen before January first, when Winston will lead Florida State in a college football playoff semifinal versus Oregon. There's also talk of a civil suit at some point. Now, the accuser's attorneys say they'll consider an appeal. Winston did supply Harding with written testimony, a very graphic account of what Winston called consensual sex. And somehow, the statement says, Jameis Winston still wins. It's not a decision at all but a statement that the judge couldn't decide.' The attorneys say their client testified and answered any and all questions at the hearing, but Winston didn't. A statement from her attorneys reads - and I'm quoting - 'we are stunned and dismayed by the order. GREENE: Well, has there been a response yet from Winston's accuser since this decision yesterday?

Florida State currently is under investigation by the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights for how it deals with possible Title IX relations and how it responds to complaints of sexual violence.

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The code of conduct hearing earlier this month was held nearly two years after Winston's accuser first identified Winston as the man who allegedly raped her. Department of Education says schools have to investigate allegations of sexual assault promptly. GOLDMAN: You know, it's required under Title IX. GREENE: Well, then give us the history of how this code of conduct hearing came about. A prosecutor in Tallahassee decided last year not to file criminal charges because he didn't feel the evidence was strong enough to win in court. Now, remember, David, he wasn't facing criminal charges. Had Harding found Winston responsible, he could've been expelled from school. Now, Harding needed the evidence to show it was more probable than not that Winston was responsible for the charge violations. But he wrote he couldn't find with any confidence that either version is more probable than not. And in it, he said the accounts of what happened - the accuser says rape Winston says consensual sex. And he laid out his ruling in a letter to Jameis Winston, and a copy was obtained by several media outlets. GOLDMAN: Well, this is former Justice Major Harding.

GREENE: So what exactly did the judge say in his decision to clear Jameis Winston? And we have NPR's Tom Goldman on the line to tell us more about this. A woman alleged that Winston sexually assaulted her in 2012. That is the decision yesterday from a former Florida Supreme Court judge who presided over a hearing related to a rape allegation against Winston. Florida State's star quarterback, Jameis Winston, did not violate the university's code of conduct policy.

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And we have an update now in a big story in college football.

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