New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft wins appeal to dismiss video in prostitution case

[Eugene]

Source: Cox Media

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft wins appeal to dismiss video in prostitution case

By: Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Updated: August 19, 2020 - 5:18 PM

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft won another major victory in court Wednesday in his massage parlor prostitution case.

In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel in Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach affirmed a lower court decision that police improperly gathered video evidence on secret surveillance cameras that was crucial in the case against Kraft, 79, and two dozen other men who were recorded visiting and getting treatment at several South Florida spas, The New York Times reported.

“We find the trial courts properly concluded that the criminal defendants had standing to challenge the video surveillance and that total suppression of the video recordings was constitutionally warranted,” the judges wrote in their decision.

“In the absence of any binding Florida law concerning silent video surveillance like that conducted in this case, the trial courts properly applied well-settled and persuasive federal law on the issue,” Judge Cory J. Ciklin wrote

Link to tweet

-snip-

Read more: https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/trending/new-england-patriots-owner-robert-kraft-wins-appeal-dismiss-video-prostitution-case/IWD5MH6L3NHGDNGCCWA5Y6R3UU/

[CaptYossarian]

1. The checks cleared.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

2. just don't understand this decision...

The only way to get them on the acts they committed was to tape them in the acts.



This feels like a rich guys, bought justice decision.

[Marcuse]

3. Turnabout. Usually it's the Patriots who make illegal spy videos.