After filing a countersuit against his rape accuser Erica Kinsman, Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk is reporting that Jameis Winston intends on using tweets from her Twitter account against her to prove his case.
When it comes to lawsuits filed by one person against another, anything that either party has said — in any setting — can be used against either party in court. And social media has become a major source for harvesting evidence of things people say.
In the lawsuit filed by Erica Kinsman against Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston, Winston will use evidence of things Kinsman said on Twitter in the months after the sexual encounter with Winston that she contends was rape. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Winston will introduce in the pending litigation tweets from Kinsman in which she roots for the Florida State team for which Winston served as the starting quarterback and star player.
It’s believed that Kinsman will argue that she went to Florida State games as part of her therapy for the alleged rape. Which means that Winston’s lawyers will be looking for the therapist who believed it would be helpful to Kinsman to attend games featuring her alleged rapist, and to cheer for him.
As the litigation unfolds, there could be more evidence like this. Which eventually could cause Kinsman’s case to crumble.
The fact that some tweets could end up being the thing that makes Kinsman’s case against Winston fall apart is pretty amazing. It is interesting that an alleged rape victim could still find a way to handle rooting for a team that her alleged rapist is the star of. You would think that she wouldn’t want to see him at all or see anything that she could associate him with so that she wouldn’t open old wounds.
It’s going to be interesting to see how Winston’s attorneys use the tweets against Kinsman in the courtroom and to see how Kinsman and her attorneys are able to defend it.
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