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Originally Posted by IliketoPuck
Humour me, illustrious legal minds, on my thoughts below. Not a “will this result in a conviction or not” perspective, but one that attempts to hypothesize how the stories have diverged so substantively over time.
If there was absolutely nothing to this, why did Hockey Canada cut a multimillion dollar cheque in return for an NDA?
My thought is that because whatever they were paying to keep quiet via the NDA was damaging enough in their view to warrant millions of dollars. But that information can’t be included as evidence, because the hockey players careers were coerced / threatened. Which, again, why would they lie to make things worse when facing that kind of pressure from Hockey Canada? Purely my opinion, but I think they were threatened and came clean, and because there were no criminal charges at the time, that would have been it after Hockey Canada purchased EMs silence. Once the story broke and became public interest, the criminal investigation nullified the NDA, bringing things to light.
Carter Hart and Detective Newton’s testimony this week is not consistent with a story that requires a multi million dollar settlement, in my view.
I fully expect the legal proceedings to result in a not guilty verdict. It sure seems like once the text messages were ruled inadmissible that the prosecution began to speed run this trial without a cogent strategy to proving things beyond reasonable doubt. Perhaps their strategy is now to appeal the likely outcome?
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I posted this theory elsewhere.
The settlement imo was there to bury the story to protect the reputations and careers of the hockey players involved, regardless of who was right or wrong. Because if it did get out, it’d be a public witch hunt, and their careers would be done. Kinda like what happened anyways.
That’s my best guess at it. HC didn’t even consult the players involved. Figure it was a clean bury and move on.