I just just read about this for the first time. Apparently he had high powered lawyers to get him off. To protect the athlete. I should have known this guy was a piece of shit since he hangs out with Jon Jones. Hopefully when he fights Hokit he gets called out during the press conference.
https://x.com/catchwrestling/status/1889696196383428944?s=46
Drunk regrets =\= rape.
Yeah maybe
She could have done the drink and regret routine. I dont really know what to think.
I tend to side with dudes in situations like these unless hard evidence surfaces.
He was never found guilty, so I want to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe guilty by association, since he’s buddy-buddy with Jones.
Lay down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
I mean who has bang a sloppy drunk bitch.. at least once
She even went to the hospital right afterwards. This isn’t some chick who decides years later to claim sexual assault. Plenty of evidence this cocksucker did rape. Usually I’d side with the guy, but not this time.
The police report indicated the alleged assault involved penetration with a foreign object, and alcohol was reportedly a factor.
• Steveson and Martinez were arrested but never charged. In December 2019, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman declined to prosecute, citing “inadequate evidence to fairly charge and prosecute the case.” He noted conflicting accounts and limitations under Minnesota’s then-existing law regarding voluntary intoxication and consent (a loophole that was later closed in 2021).
The hospital visit was part of the initial report and evidence-gathering process (standard in sexual assault cases for medical examination, evidence collection like a rape kit, and treatment).
I for one, think OP is coming from a fair and balance place!
Seems like if you want a real discussion, people would expect more than a random tweet and a copy/pasted paragraph with no source.
this
We had this discussion a few months back.
It fell into two camps:
The camp shaming drunk sluts and the camp harping on Gable getting off on a technicality.
I think Gable is innocent of rape like Kobe was
The interesting thing is this:
Usually both parties are intoxicated. The woman is deemed incapable of consent and making informed decisions, but the man is considered capable of rape.
to be clear, rape is an absolutely repugnant thing and anyone who does it should be prosecuted and dealt with legally. I’m merely pointing out the issue because a woman can decide after the fact that she was raped because she was drunk, but a man can’t claim down the road that he was drunk as an excuse for having sex. Further, I haven’t seen a single instance when a man accused a woman of rape when the man was drunk. I bet it’s happened, but I have not heard about it.
May have been a case of drunk sex, but turned south when a foreign object was introduced.
It wasn’t a conspiracy to protect Gable.
It was an attorney arguing that the plain text of the law meant he could not be charged with raping a chick too drunk to consent.
Loophole was closed after this case, but it isn’t like the prosecutor’s office dropped the case to protect Gable and his teammate. They tried every angle they could but there wasn’t enough admissible evidence to move forward once the victim blacking out was off the table.
Who doesn’t like a struggle snuggle!
Her apparently!
I was absolutely shitfaced one time, a girl came over to my place, sober as a judge, and we smashed (twice). She talked to a mutual friend, laughing about how we had sex when I was stumbling to even walk to the bedroom.
I wasn’t raped, lol. It was good and squishy. She was attractive. I’d have done it sober.
BUT, if I were a woman, I could have cried rape.
I definitely regretted it the next day, but mainly because of the “why aren’t you texting me?!?” messages. I’ve had those same regrets after sober sex.
His friendship/mentorship with Jones looks like shit. Someone in his circle should have been smart enough to tell him to stay away from Jones with this in his history.
On June 15, 2019, a woman reported she had been raped and sought treatment at a hospital. Steveson (then 19) and his University of Minnesota teammate Dylan Martinez (21) were arrested at different locations in Minneapolis later that night.
According to a redacted emergency call and police reports, the victim was reported to be “beside herself” and unable to speak clearly immediately after the incident. The report alleged the victim was penetrated with an object.
In December 2019, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced that no charges would be filed. Freeman noted there were conflicting versions of the event, making it impossible to meet the legal standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. While the victim was praised for her bravery in reporting the incident, prosecutors found the available evidence insufficient for a fair prosecution.
Steveson and his attorney, Christa Groshek, maintained his innocence throughout the process, stating he was shocked by the arrest and had cooperated fully with law enforcement.
A major factor in the public debate surrounding this case was a specific legal technicality in Minnesota at the time. Under the 2019 law, a person who voluntarily consumed alcohol was not considered mentally incapacitated for the purposes of sexual assault charges. Prosecutors hinted that because alcohol was involved, their ability to bring charges regarding the victim’s capacity to consent was restricted by this statute.
Public outcry over cases like this led the Minnesota Legislature to pass a sweeping public safety bill in 2021 that closed this loophole, redefining “mentally incapacitated” to include victims who are incapacitated through voluntary intoxication.
That definitely doesnt sound like drunk regret. That sounds like rape rape.
Im with OP on this one.
