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a little sports court. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, We're
gonna get into a little sports court here on your
Utah ESPN Radio network. I love talking sports. I love
talking law with the best in the business, the most
trusted injury attorneys Preston and Garrett Handy. We're going to
welcome them in here momentarily. It's time to play a
little judge and jury. What's the verdict on the biggest
headlines in sports and law. We're going to get a
Parker Kingston update and much more here on your Utah
ESPN Radio network. Each week, we're really breaking down the
real life legal drama that intersects with your favorite athletes, teams, leagues, etc.
And I know, chaos, sideline, scandal's core and battles, you
name it, we delve into it with Garrett and Preston
Handy on the line. Gentlemen, how you guys doing? You
guys ready for the little sports court?
Speaker 4: Been doing well, let's get into some sports court.
Speaker 2: We're ready.
Speaker 4: It's tough.
Speaker 2: Boom, shock a lock. All right, Well, let's get into it.
The latest on the Parker Kingston case. What do we have, gentlemen,
what's the recent report coming out of the courts.
Speaker 4: Well, I hadn't heard this, so you guys turned us
onto this.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: The the procedural part is it says that attorney has
withdrawn headline thought, oh yeah, he's lost his attorney. But
it says that his main attorney, Cara toung Gero, is
gessing what happened is maybe she had some associate attorneys
or someone that she was with and they've decide to
get out of the case for one reason or another,
and the judge's granted that. So she his main lawyer, says,
he is still represented by her. So that's the good
part of his The thing that caught my attention here,
and this kind of gets away from it. But one
thing that a lot of people when this was filed
and he was charged, there was all these of her
side of the story, and you know, we got word
that he said this was a consensual Well, well, it
looks like a court filing and it's a quote and
it's essentially you can read it and it basically says,
it's a quote his words, I didn't take advantage. This
is to her. I didn't take it. I think it
was in casual. You said, yes, I thought it was consensual.
I would never have done that. I'm just paraphrasing. He says,
I'm sorry you took it the wrong way. I never
would have done this. I regret it. I'm really sorry,
you know. So that's going to be his defense. But
my question is is that something that the court that
his pleadings that and Garrett can offer his opinion that
they submitted, you know, based on what he's telling his
lawyers that I wanted to submit it, or is that
from an actual communication between them, because that will be
pretty key to his defense, you know, if there's a
text or an email or something you know, online between them,
where because all we've ever heard is what she said,
you know, and then just that he's claiming this was consensual,
but nothing in detail like this.
Speaker 5: Did you see that, Garrett? Yeah, no, I'm with you
on that, but I'm yeah, not totally sure. We haven't
seen the whole story on what she's saying or he's saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. My initial thought too, guys, I thought
it was a little bit click baitish with the law
layers were drawing from Parkingston casey as hearing is postponed
and then and then they clarify Kingston is still represented
by defense attorney Kara to Tangaro, I was, uh, I
was a little bit taken back by the title and
the titling of this particular piece, and it sounds like
you guys initially interpreted the same.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know what people think when they see
that kind of headline. If they think, oh, well, they're
they're withdrawing because they think, you know, Parker's guilty and
they don't want to defend him, right, I mean, and
I think that's maybe what you're alluding to, Ben is clickbaity,
and it's is the wrong assumption. You know, I think,
let's not read too much into this. He's got counsel.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he's got counsel, no doubt about it. Well,
you know, we we I'm sure we're going to get
more details. It's a there's I guess a delay in
the hearing. It'll be moved to April twenty third, it
looks like and I don't know what the proceedings will
be at that point, but what would be the next
steps in that hearing? What will we find out in
that hearing? Would you guys surmise just one of the.
Speaker 4: Things leading up to trial, the judge likes to check
in with the parties. Maybe someone has filed the motion
that they want in front of the court. You know,
she might have filed the motion for more evidence or
you know, their position, or she might have filed the
motion to have the charges dismissed. We don't know that
this or it might just be a regularly scheduled check
in with the attorneys as they kind of push this
towards trial.
Speaker 2: Do we get a sense of whether or not this
is going to go to trial or not. The probability
of this going to trial.
Speaker 5: Well, I guess I'll make my prediction here. I'm going
to say, no, I don't think we'll see this thing
go to trial. Uh.
Speaker 4: My prediction is if the prosecution stands firm on their
position and they feel like they have a defense, it
will go to trial. If he's got a very strong
defense that this was consensial, and if it's a he said,
she said, and if there's not anything else out there,
that's kind of the smoking gun, because the minute he
agrees to a plea, a lot comes with that. It
might be a reduced please, well, it might be a
very he would never Probably part of plea bargaining is bargaining.
It's negotiation, and typically don't agree to the most significant
highest charge. It's reduced to something below that, and you know,
and the penalties reduced that type of thing. So, but
then again, this is always going to be attached that
he entered a plea and people entered the police into
please for all different kinds of reasons they do, you know,
because of risk and things like that. So it's all
going to be based on what the evidence the prosecution
really has.
Speaker 5: There are just one last thing better though, I mean,
these are hard cases. These are hard cases for the
prosecution to prove, right. I mean, there is such a
he said, she said component to these kinds of cases.
So it's a big burden.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so to take the jury out of out
of the county in which this occurred, correct, what are
the what's the process of choosing a jury to oversee
this this this trial if it does go to trial.
Speaker 5: Well, there's a there's a whole selection process, right, And
obviously a story like this that is is so high profile,
with a defendantness so high profile, they'll want to be
really careful on how they pick this jury right to
avoid bias. But you know, each side has some challenges
where they can have jurors removed for a different reason,
and the judge in Utah is going to be involved
in that process and helping to select the jury typically
and the lawyers are able to ask some questions of
these jurors. And so because the idea is right, I mean,
we've got to have a he's entitled to a fair
and impartial jury to hear the case. And and so
there's some work that has to be done to get
to that point.
Speaker 2: Gentlemen, let's uh, let's pivot here. NFL gender bias law lawsuit.
It looks like there's a female ref that is suing.
What's the latest on this particular situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got Robin Di Lorenzo, who is one of
the first female NFL refs. After climbing the ranks in
high school. In college, she hit the highest of her
profession and was a ref in the NFL well the
end of twenty twenty five seasons. She was let go
fired by the NFL and they claim it was for
documented under performance. Now she has filed a lawsuit against
the NFL, a civil rights law suit. She's claiming gender discrimination.
She cites a number of instances where she says there
was harassment and hostility towards her because of her gender.
She talks about specifics like she got her uniform and
it was a man sized uniform. She was told to
wear her ponytail out so people would know in the
public that they had a female ref out there. She
was subject to profanity hostility that other refs weren't. She
was made to go to training. These are all her allegations,
claims that she was made to go to training that
the male refs were not, she had to train with
college and high school refs. And so now she's coming
after the NFL and says part of it. Losso says, hey, NFL,
instead of supporting one of the only women on its staff,
the NFL exposed her to unchecked harassment, denied her the
resources given to men, manipulate her training and grading opportunities
which goes to the performance, and ultimately ended her career
based on tainted evaluations. So one thing I haven't seen
is this is a wrongful termination, But with those words there,
it seems like it probably is, and she's seeking damages,
and her damage will essentially be, Hey, I reached the
highest level of our profession. Probably didn't get paid what
everyone did based on tenure, but I reached the highest level,
and now I don't have that job anymore, and it
was the job I wanted, and I can quantify it.
Then now I don't have it, and this is what
you owe me. But again she's got to prove her case.
And the NFL has come out and said, wait a minute,
we pride ourselves on being fair. This was solely based
on performance, and we'll defend this vigorously. That's what you
always hear, will defend this vigorously.
Speaker 2: The vigorous defense is always the biggest defense, always the
best offense. Let's move on to the Major League Baseball.
Former Major League Baseball Commission Peter Uperol's daughter is telling
the court that a trustee misused millions of dollars. When
you say millions of dollars, a lot of ears are
going to perk up, a lot of eyebrows are going
to perk up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: What it means is this family, Peter and his wife,
they have a very large trust. And when you have
a trust that big and not much money involved, you
typically do have a professional trustee involved. And this is
a person who owes a fiduciary duty to Peter and
his wife, who brought to manage the money for them.
And so what the allegation is is that as this
man and his wife, theater who is a former MLB commissioner.
Why we're talking about on sports court. He was headed
up the LA Olympics, so a real prominent figure in
across sports, but especially in baseball. But as he's aged, right,
and there's some decline happening and some dementia and some
difficulty in making certain decisions, especially complex financial decisions. And
so his daughter is intervening and saying, hey, I mean
more or less that this trustee is taking advantage of
his parents where they're not really able to make these decisions.
He's doing things that are benefiting him personally as the
trustee and not them, and so wants to have him removed.
So I mean, I think it's probably going to be
a pretty contentious thing. I mean, those are serious allegations
against the trustee, especially one who is an attorney and
has these duties to his client.
Speaker 2: The trust you know what I mean, Like everybody wants
to be a trust fund baby, but no one, no
one really, you know, I don't know, I don't know
how many trust fund babies end up being okay in
all things right, it feels like there's always entitlement with
the trust fund stuff. Uh, there's a there's a negative
and a positive connotation for that. I know everyone kind
of looks for it, but I don't know if it's
always a benefit long term for you. Uh, let's get
into this. How about Phillies Alex Bomb suing his parents
for mismanagement of the finances.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Alex Baum, third Basement for the Phillies All Star
third Baseman, He is suing his parents for mismanagement. He
states that reports that mom and dad used a series
of limited liability companies to funnel money out of his
personal accounts, which then they converted to their own use. Specifically,
he claims that they set up some LLCs and took
ten percent ownership of it. They claimed that they needed
to do that so they could perform their responsibilities and
be authorized to do this, but that it was actually
his money. Well, this all kind of came out recently
when Alec went to mom and dad and said, hey,
I want access to my accounts. I want to look
at him and they said no, And he said I
want the passwords and they wouldn't give it to him.
That's red flag number one. And then he goes back
and guess what mom and dad have done. They've lawyered up,
They've gone and got a lawyer. And this is before
he ever even sued them. Geez, thanks Mom and Dad.
And so now he wants to know what's going on.
You know, whenever you want to see the books and
someone won't let you see the books, that's a problem.
And he claims that he three million dollars has been misappropriated,
and he's going after mom and dad. Thanksgiving dinner is
not going to be a good time next year.
Speaker 2: Goodness graces, you feel like, you know, you get your
mom and dad involved to help manage your finance, because
those are the people that you can trust. But not
so fast. I mean, what do you do you know,
who do you turn to to help man money?
Speaker 4: They're you turned into someone independent that has piduciary duties, Yeah,
because you know they have piduciations and they're part of
an organization, and suing them is going to be, you know,
easier to collect from him. You know, I don't know.
I think sometimes moms parents, and we've seen this happen
with a lot of athletes. They you know, they've dedicated
themselves to their kids reaching high levels, and I think
sometimes they think when their kids reach that high level,
it's like it's cashcow time, you know, and it's just uh,
you know, the land of milk and honey, and we
got you there, we supported you, we sacrificed for you,
and so now it's time. So you know, this one
is not above board though. They're doing some things that
are behind the scenes and a little bit concealed scandalous
leg Well, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, if you're not willing to give like passwords and
stuff like that, I felt that interesting. But yeah, it
is what it is. Uh, march maddness ten years in
one lawsuit later. How about the villain Villanova's Chris Jenkins
calling his icon bitter Sweet? What's the ladies here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And we we've actually seen a lot of these
types of lawsuits over the past couple of years, right,
former college athletes who did not get a chance to
cash in on the current nil world that we live in,
and so they've tried to bring lawsuits to capitalize on that.
And this one in particular, we thought we'd bring up.
We've all been watching, you know, the highlight from from
last weekend of Yukon Braylan Mullins right making that incredible
three pointer at the buzzer, and that is encapsulates, right,
March Madness. And one of the other most famous shots
here we're talking about is this Chris Jenkins from Villanova.
They beat Carolina ten years ago for the championship and
he made the buzzer beater three pointer, right, And I
just was going to read his quote, a quote that
he had made recently where he said, I've never been
compensated in any way for making that shot. It seems
like everybody has benefited from the shot except the guy
who made it. And part of that is, you know,
he's saying, hey, it raised the profile of the university.
They you know, probably built a new you know, facilities
and donations and things like that that that come with this. Right.
I mean, he's a legend at Villanova and in college basketball.
I mean, he's got that. But he's saying that hasn't
translated into money and they've profited off it, but he
has not. So anyway, long story short, he did bring
that case and and it was dismissed, but it was
dismissed on the grounds that he brought the case too
late and that it's passed the statute limitations.
Speaker 2: So anyway, what is the statute of limitations? Then what
is the ruling on that.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know what it is in Pennsylvania, which
I don't know if that's where the venue is where
this was brought. I mean, the the n C double
A was a and I believe all these conferences were
defendants in this case. I mean, but I mean it certainly.
I don't know what it is. But less than ten
years ago when he made the shot, you know, we
did see. We've talked about the I think the nineteen
eighty three NC State Wolfpack team, a lot of them,
including thorough Bailey, you know, had brought a case like
this and I can't remember what happened to that. Maybe
Preston Nose. But yeah, these are old claims.
Speaker 2: Old the Statute of limitations. Got to get after it
right quick or else the Statute of Limitations comes quickly.
Let's finish off a little Tiger Woods update. Was arrested
on duy jailed, crashed his car, rolled it over. It
sounds like he's entering rehab as well. Give us the
latest on Tiger Woods.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, if you haven't heard this, you've been
living under a rock. Just briefly, Tiger Woods driving last week.
I think Jupiter Island Florida. He hit the back of
a trailer, rolled his suv. Cop show up. They checked,
he's acting not right, so they run a number of
field sobriety tests. They claim that he was stumbling around
and his eyes were glazed over, his pupils were dilated.
They concluded that based on this, he was impaired, and
he was arrested and taken. He was in and they
did a blood alcohol test and it was zero point zero,
and they asked for a urine test and he refused it.
So he was charged with a separate crime in Florida.
That is a separate climb when they're requesting a lawful
test and you refuse it. So not only does he
have a DUI charge, he has a refusal to submit
to a test, which interesting. I looked at this up.
This is a recent Florida case and it says that
based on oh, I might have lost oh. Here it is.
It says under the revised law, drivers who refuse a
breath or urine tests face a second degree misdemeanor charge.
He's been charged with that and automatic like one year
driver's life suspension. Automatic sounds like that's not negotiable, which
everyone thinks that's probably a good thing for him not
to be driving anymore and up to sixty days in jail. Well,
he has entered in appearance with a lawyer at the arraignment.
The lawyer entered a Tiger didn't show up, you can
do that. He entered a plea of not guilty and
requested a jury trial in his defense. And as part
of it, I think it's a good thing. The judge
agreed that Tiger could enter rehab and it's been reported
that he's going to do that outside the country. You know,
with all the eyes on Tiger, that's a good thing.
You know, Tiger being one of the most influential sport
figures in history, you know, and eyes on him. Everyone's
hoping that he just gets things right.
Speaker 2: Well, you hate having to see stars going to rehab, right,
but Puka Nakua has entered rehab after being in the limelight,
the negative limelight multiple times over the last I don't know,
few months, and so, you know, I know he's been
accused in civil court of maybe even some sort of
you know, I can't remember what the accusation was, but
biting someone. But anyway, latest on Pooka, what do you
have for us there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is the biting case. I mean, it's pretty
crazy that that's the allegation, but you know, that's what
it is. We talked about that the other day. But
I you know, I think the update here is that he's,
you know, very publicly is doing this, is going into rehab,
and his attorney came out with a statement that I
thought was pretty transparent, talking about some of his off
the field struggles and that he's trying to get things
right in his life, which kudos to him and hope
he succeeds. But the comment that he made is he says, hey, look,
don't jump to conclusions here. This is not because of
this civil case. These are these things are not related.
He was planning on doing this anyway, but this is
just a timing thing, and so don't conflate these two issues. Obviously,
is going to continue to fight the civil case, and
I'm sure that's something we'll be talking about with you
guys in the future.
Speaker 2: Gentlemen, always appreciate your time in a little sports court segment.
That's the judge and juries, I guess, the the ultimate
verdict of this particular case, this sports score case. We
appreciate you hopping on. You guys do more than just
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