Re: Elden

["JLyell" <jlyell@concentric.net>]

I have to agree with you.  Today's athletes whether guilty or not are very
susceptible to charges and accusations from all sorts of strange people.

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> From: Jeremy Warren <jeremy.warren@alphatech.com>
> To: Celtics@igtc.COM
> Subject: Elden
> Date: Tuesday, September 02, 1997 2:46 PM
> 
>                       Elden                                        9/2/97
> 
> JLyell wrote:
>  
> >Just heard the Lakers Elden Campbell has been accused of rape at his
L.A.
> >home.  Jerry West has put together a real nice group of gangsta's with
> >Campbell, Horry, and Van Exel.  Al they need is Iverson & J.R. Rider ! 
> 
> 
> I have to disagree with you on this line of thought.  What's to stop
someone
> from accusing you or me of rape?  Nothing.  A false accusation probably
> wouldn't happen to either one of us because we have no (significant)
money. 
> But if either of us made $7M a year, it could happen.
> 
> I'm not saying he's innocent until proven guilty and therefore you can't
judge
> him, because that only applies to the judicial system.  But people should
at
> least wait for someone to be arrested before they make a decision about
> someone's character.  Remember that Michael Irvin was falsely accused of
rape.
>  The media jumped all over him and the cowboys (in part because of his
cocaine
> arrest), but in the end the police never even filed charges.
> 
> Jeremy
>   
> 
>