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Youth Damien Harris Jersey , Fla. (AP) — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s high-profile attorneys normally don’t handle second-degree misdemeanors
like soliciting a prostitute, but that’s only part of what he needs them to
do.Their main job is to make sure the public never sees videos that police say
show Kraft twice paying for sex at a Florida massage parlor. On Friday, they
will try to persuade Judge Leonard Hanser that police violated the 77-year-old’s
federal and state rights when they secretly installed video cameras at the
Orchids of Asia Day Spa. They want the videos thrown out and sealed.“Law
enforcement had no basis to suspect anything more than a run-of-the-mill
misdemeanor that has never been understood, in any corner of the United States,
to warrant the eye-popping invasions that occurred here,” attorney Jack
Goldberger wrote in court documents. “Because we do not live in a police state
and our government answers to the rule of law, suppression of the
illegally-obtained evidence is the correct and essential remedy.”In addition to
Goldberger, who also represents billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Kraft
also has William Burck, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who represented former White
House Counsel Don McGahn during the Mueller investigation; and New York-based
Alex Spiro
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who was convicted of murder and later killed himself in prison.Palm Beach County
prosecutors have replied in court documents that Kraft had no reasonable
expectation of privacy at the spa in part because it was not his home or
property, and that the felony case of prostitution against spa owners includes
enough grounds to obtain warrants for search and surveillance of the spa.David
S. Weinstein, a Miami defense attorney and former prosecutor not connected to
the case, said Kraft’s attorneys are “raising the appropriate arguments,” but
prosecutors will have a chance to rebut them in court. He said prosecutors will
be able to raise the “good faith” exception to save the video — that officers
had legitimate reasons to believe the warrant and their actions were legal.He
also said Hanser will rely on what the officers and the judge who issued the
search warrant believed in January about the possibility of human trafficking,
not what is known now.Prosecutors say Kraft, whose estimated worth is $6
billion, twice visited Orchids of Asia in January, hours before flying to Kansas
City to see his Patriots defeat the Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game. Two
weeks later
Authentic Damien Harris Jersey , they won the Super Bowl, their sixth under his ownership.Kraft and 25 other men were charged in February with paying for
sex acts. Some have accepted plea deals. Those who haven’t would benefit if
Kraft succeeds in getting his videos thrown out, as their attorneys could cite
the ruling. Prosecutors originally said the spa might be involved in human
trafficking, but have retracted that.Kraft has pleaded not guilty, but released
a statement apologizing to Patriots fans and others for his actions. He is not
expected to be in court.Kraft’s attorneys are attacking the warrant on several
grounds:— That both the U.S. and Florida constitutions allow the secret
installation of hidden cameras only under extraordinary circumstances and that
Florida law specifically says secret audio recordings can only be made for
serious crimes such as murder and kidnapping, not prostitution. They argue the
threshold for video recordings would be even higher.— That Jupiter police
conducted an illegal search without a warrant when they enlisted a state health
inspector to visit the spa and report back what she saw inside. They used her
report to help get the warrant allowing the cameras’ installation. Weinstein
said prosecutors will get an opportunity to show this wasn’t subterfuge.— That
detectives misled the judge who authorized the cameras’ installation by saying
the health inspector had found evidence of human trafficking, but supplied no
evidence such as photos of clothing or beds or other evidence that women were
forced to stay there. They say detectives also failed to establish why more
typical investigative methods such as sending in an undercover officer to see if
he was offered sex for money wouldn’t have sufficed. Weinstein said the latter
is “perhaps their weakest argument.” He said some of those techniques had been
used and others would have failed to identify all the conspiracy’s participants
or to gather the evidence needed.— That the cameras weren’t necessary, as
detectives already had ample evidence of prostitution at the spa before they
were installed, including towels pulled from the trash and confessions of
customers who had been stopped after leaving.— That the police and prosecutors’
initial suggestions that Orchids of Asia may have been part of a human
trafficking ring were an effort to “spin a yarn about how their investigation
had supposedly targeted high-level human trafficking rather than low-level
prostitution.”Weinstein said whoever loses is certain to appeal Hanser’s ruling
to higher courts. Yes, the Los Angeles Rams got away with a flagrant foul (or
two) by cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman that allowed them to sneak out of New
Orleans with the NFC championship, right past the highway sign on the causeway
over Lake Pontchartrain reading, “WE WERE ROBBED .”Yes
Damien Harris Jersey Boys , the Patriots won in Kansas City thanks to four critical calls going New England’s way in the fourth quarter, three of which
were iffy: a replay reversal of Julian Edelman’s muffed punt , a phantom
roughing-the-passer call on Chris Jones and Chris Hogan’s drive-sustaining
one-handed catch with a little help from the ground.The fourth flag was
indisputable: Dee Ford lined up in the neutral zone, negating rookie cornerback
Charvarius Ward’s game-clinching interception with 55 seconds left and Kansas
City ahead 28-24.“I thought the game was over,” Chiefs safety Daniel Sorensen
said. “And it wasn’t.”Just like the Saints did when Tommylee Lewis blatantly was
interfered with inside the Los Angeles 5-yard line by Robey-Coleman, whose
helmet-to-helmet hit didn’t draw the flag but will surely result in a hefty
fine.“I thought it was a flag for that split second,” acknowledged
Robey-Coleman, who was as surprised as everyone else when two officials near the
play ruled it an incomplete pass on third down with 1:45 remaining in regulation
and the game tied at 20.“I knew if that had been a flag, they probably would
have scored on the next play,” Robey-Coleman said.The call kept the Rams close
as New Orleans settled for a field goal on the next play, Greg Zuerlein tied it
in regulation with a 48-yarder and won it in overtime with a 57-yarder , two
field goals that likely never would have happened had Robey-Coleman been flagged
for clobbering Lewis well before the ball arrived.On Monday
Infant Damien Harris Jersey , Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas implored NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to undo the outcome of the game , citing an NFL rule
that allows for “the reversal of a game’s result or the rescheduling of a game,
either from the beginning or from the point at which the extraordinary
occurred.”The league has never invoked the rule to reverse a game’s outcome.The
George Halas and Lamar Hunt Trophies may be smudged amid the backlash over the
officiating gaffes, but they aren’t entirely tarnished because strategy and
execution had as much to do with the outcomes of these overtime thrillers as the
yellow flags that were or weren’t thrown.The Rams (15-3) roared back from a pair
of double-digit deficits to beat the Saints 26-23 in overtime because they stuck
with the plan and didn’t panic after falling behind 13-0 in the first quarter
and 20-10 in the third quarter.After managing just 5 yards in the first quarter
when nothing went right, the Rams righted themselves thanks to a fake punt and
cut New Orleans’ lead to 13-10 at halftime.“Our team demonstrated great mental
toughness,” Rams coach Sean McVay said. “It was a tough start, but I thought the
way (quarterback Jared Goff) played and handled the noise was outstanding.”The
Rams outscored the Saints 16-3 down the stretch.The Patriots (13-5) overcame a
24-point fourth-quarter outburst fueled by Patrick Mahomes to beat the Chiefs
37-31 in overtime because Tom Brady was hardly touched, aside from Jones’
shoulder swipe that the officials thought hit him in the facemask.New England’s
much-maligned offensive line didn’t allow a single sack to the Chiefs, whose 52
sacks during the regular season were tied with the Steelers for the league lead
and who pummeled Andrew Luck a week earlier, sacking him three times.Brady
“played great,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick said for what, the 1
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rush and there was a lot of four-man rush with Justin Houston, Chris Jones and
Dee Ford. Those are tough matchups. I thought they did a good job of standing up
to those guys and giving Tom a chance to deliver the ball.”In overtime, Brady,
who has thrown 90 passes in the playoffs and has not been sacked a single time,
converted a trio of third-and-10 pass plays on the winning touchdown
drive.“Brady got rid of the ball fast,” Jones said. “We didn’t get to the
quarterback like we usually do.”So the Patriots rushed for 176 yards and Brady
threw for 348.By dominating the time of possession — 44 minutes to 21 minutes —
Brady and the Patriots kept Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill on the
sideline during most of the freezing night.“You play on the road, it is going to
be tough,” Brady said. “What travels well is running the ball and playing tough.
That is good in any weather, any condition, any environment and any
stadium.”
