NOTE: The following post has some racially-based language that some may view as uncomfortable. 4.5.21
These are the tragic stories that happen in our community. Rape is wrong but consensual sex is not. So white women crying rape has gotten men hung for years. Most of the lynchings were of white women in relationships with slaves. This is a fact. The taking down of black wall street was about white women screaming when a black man got into the elevator with her. Emmett Till never whistles at that white woman. She recanted her story also. They shot Emmett Till in his penis and crushed his Skull and tied him to weight to hold him down. They torched that child for white women lies. Most of things down to slaves was to protect the women’s honor.
A young Long Island woman who spent over a year insisting that she was raped by two Sacred Heart University football players officially admitted in court Tuesday that she’s been lying the entire time.
Nikki Yovino, 19, pleaded guilty to charges of falsely reporting an incident and interfering with police, according to the Connecticut Post.
The former college student reportedly accepted a plea deal, and will now serve a reduced sentence of one year in prison. She had been facing six.
Yovino agreed to the deal just as jury selection was getting ready to begin in her false rape trial, the Post reports.
“We were prepared to go to trial on the original felony charge, but after lengthy discussions with all parties involved and considering all outside factors, this was an appropriate disposition that will hopefully set a precedent about how serious the state takes this conduct,” Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Tatiana Messina told the judge in Yovino’s case.
The New York native has been defending her rape accusations since February 2017, when she was first charged by Bridgeport Police.
Cops claimed in the arrest affidavit that Yovino filed rape charges against the two Sacred Heart football players in October 2016 — and then recanted her story three months later.
She claimed that the assaults went down inside of a bathroom at an off-campus house party.
“I don’t want to be in here, I don’t want to do anything,” Yovino recounted telling the men during police interviews. She claimed that the bathroom was in the basement, and that the individuals held her down and took turns assaulting her.
“My friends are waiting for me outside, let me go outside,” Yovino recalled saying.
While both men admitted to sleeping with her, they claimed that the sex was completely consensual. Their lawyer, Frank Riccio II, told the CT Post on Tuesday that they are now thinking about suing Yovino for all the trouble she put them through.
“While this disposition does not replace that which the boys lost, it does send a powerful message that lying about a serious incident carries serious consequences,” Riccio said.
He told reporters on Monday that Yovino’s actions had “seriously affected” the former athletes.
“They’re no longer in school,” Riccio said. “The loss of their education and the college experience has certainly affected them greatly. And this is all because of a very serious lie.”
MEET #ALBERTWILSON A COLLEGE STUDENT WHO WAS JUST SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN PRISON BY AN ALL WHITE JURY FOR THE ALLEGED RAPE OF A WHITE GIRL IN KANSAS. BUT HERE’S THE PLOT TWIST THERE WAS NO SEX INVOLVED. THE TWO ONLY MADE OUT! YEP, THAT IS CORRECT THERE WAS NO DNA FOUND INSIDE OR ON HER. ALSO, NO EVIDENCE PROVING THAT THEY HAD SEX! HOWEVER, THERE IS SURVEILLANCE VIDEO OF THE GIRL KISSING AND DANCING ON HIM AT A BAR AND THEN HOLDING HANDS WITH HIM WHILE WALKING BACK TO HIS PLACE, WHERE SURVEILLANCE SHOWS THEM BEING IN THERE FOR ONLY 5 MINS AND THEN BOTH OF THEM WALKING BACK TO THE BAR TOGETHER. PLEASE MAKE HIS STORY GO VIRAL. HE HAS A 12 YR SENTENCE, ON PROBATION FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE AND HAS TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER. THEY HAVE NO EVIDENCE ONLY THE WORD OF A 17-YEAR-OLD WHITE GIRL.
Wilson sought a new trial on the basis that his trial attorney, Forrest Lowry, provided ineffective assistance of counsel. Judge Sally Pokorny agreed in her ruling Tuesday, noting she found that questions that could have been raised from thousands of text messages that had not been used as evidence in the trial could have influenced the jury’s decision.
“The court’s confidence in the jury’s verdict is undermined by Mr. Lowry’s failure to review text messages,” Pokorny said. “It is my firm belief that if a jury knew of the information contained in the 2,000 text messages taken from the victim’s phone, there is a substantial likelihood the outcome of this case would have been different,” she added.
Pokorny said she will soon order Wilson transferred from a prison in Hutchinson back to the Douglas County Jail for a new bond hearing and the setting for a new trial. Wilson’s next court appearance is scheduled for March 23.
A jury in January 2019 convicted Wilson, now 25, of one count of rape in connection with a Sept. 11, 2016, incident. Wilson has been serving a 12.5-year sentence.
As the Journal-World has reported, the victim in the case, a girl who was 17 at the time, met Wilson at The Hawk, a popular bar near the University of Kansas campus. She testified that she was drunk and that Wilson, then a 20-year-old KU student, lifted her skirt and assaulted her at the bar and then walked her to his house a couple of blocks away, raped her, then walked her back to the bar.
Wilson was convicted of rape for the incident at the house, but the jury hung on the incident at the bar.
On appeal, Wilson has been represented by two attorneys, Michael Whalen and Josh Dubin. Based on Whalen’s motion, the Kansas Court of Appeals agreed on Feb. 6, 2020, to send the case back to Douglas County District Court for Pokorny to decide whether Wilson should get a new trial.
In their arguments, Dubin and Whalen came to the conclusion that the case came down to the girl’s credibility. That was key in a number of specific points they made, but one particular focus was on data from the girl’s phone. If Wilson’s appointed attorney, Lowry, had realized he had certain additional evidence, including text messages and photos from the girl’s phone, he could have more effectively cross-examined her and others who testified, they wrote.
After the hearing, Whalen told the Journal-World he was “overwhelmed and absolutely thrilled” with Pokorny’s decision. He said he and Dubin will continue to serve as Wilson’s defense in the new trial.
“The evidence and information that came from this hearing will make a difference in how the case is approached,” he said. “We presented a strong case and the judge agreed with our argument. We’re just very happy with the outcome today.”
Prosecutors had argued against the granting of a new trial and said they did not believe the text messages warranted one.
Kate Duncan Butler, assistant district attorney, wrote in an argument to the court that “The text messages discussed at the hearing seem to indicate that (the girl) had a bit more experience with alcohol and mental-health treatment than she revealed to” the forensic psychologist who evaluated her and diagnosed her with post-traumatic stress disorder.
However, Butler questioned whether some of the messages would have even been admissible had Lowry attempted to use them during Wilson’s trial. The admission of messages about the girl’s personal life months before the incident “dramatically increases the likelihood of blaming and shaming her as the victim,” Butler wrote.
“It is also unclear how those messages are relevant now, except perhaps to paint (the girl) as dishonest,” she wrote.
But Pokorny noted Lowry testified his defense strategy came down to attacking the credibility of the girl and her recollection of the incident. Calling it a “he said, she said” case, Pokorny said the text messages are directly related to the credibility of the testimony provided by the girl and the diagnosis of the psychologist, who also had not seen the text messages.
“Those messages went directly to the credibility of the victim’s self-reports to (the doctor), of which his diagnosis was based,” Pokorny said. “We know based on his testimony … that he had not reviewed all of the evidence,” Pokorny said of the psychologist.
Both Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez and Deputy District Attorney Joshua Seiden appeared in court for the prosecution during the hearing. Valdez said in a news release that although Wilson’s conviction and “all evidentiary proceedings” occurred before she took over as DA, she and Seiden would be reviewing the court’s ruling and the relevant materials in the case.
“As in all cases, this Office remains committed to pursuing equal and equitable justice for all affected parties,” Valdez said in the release.
Brian Banks: Not just white girls.
