Jameis Winston Case

One of the most famous and recent off the field incidents involving a college athlete was the rape allegation made against Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston in 2012. Winston was never charged, mainly because the Tallahassee police didn’t investigate the case thoroughly if at all. The football team and the athletic director stood behind their start athlete as he claimed his innocence of the allegations. This incident was the first of many that Winston had while playing for Florida State, and for all these troubles he caused for the school he was suspended once for one game. In December 2012 a freshman reported to the Florida State University police that she had been raped by a stranger after a night of drinking at a bar. She had bruises on her body and tests would show semen on her underwear (Bogdanich, 2014). She first told police that she didn’t know who her attacker was but gave them a description. In January 10, 2013, she left a voicemail for the investigating detective that she believed that her attacker was Jameis Winston and that he was in one of her classes (Dahl, 2013). This incident sat on the back burner for almost a year,

The investigation showed that the university’s police chief forwarded all the reports to a high-ranking administrator in the athletic department who sent them to Winston’s attorney (Vaughan, 2014). Even if this administrator was not the athletic director, whoever it was had to have done this at the request of the AD. It looks like the athletic department was doing everything it could to protect its star athlete who had them poised to win a national championship. Everyone from the athletic director to head coach Jimbo Fisher stood up for Winston and said he could not be capable of anything like