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Dallas Cowboys backmost Dak Prescott will not look immoderate charges successful relationship to an investigation into an alleged battle that took spot successful 2017 aft constabulary said they recovered insufficient grounds to support that a crime had taken place, according to a report.
Prescott, 30, was accused earlier this twelvemonth of assaulting a female successful nan backmost of a conveyance successful a portion nine parking batch backmost successful February 2017.
Dak Prescott, #4 of nan Dallas Cowboys, throws nan shot during an NFL shot crippled against nan Dallas Cowboys astatine AT&T Stadium connected December 30, 2023, successful Arlington, Texas. (Perry Knotts/Getty Images)
According to The Associated Press, attorneys representing nan female sent a missive to Prescott successful January requesting $100 cardinal successful speech for her silence, including that she would not prosecute criminal charges successful relationship pinch nan alleged assault.
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But Prescott alternatively revenge an extortion suit successful Collin County, northbound of Dallas, against nan female successful March.
"Sexual battle is simply a bad crime that nary personification should ever endure," nan suit read. "Defendants’ mendacious claims successful this respect undermine nan courageousness of existent intersexual battle survivors everyplace arsenic good arsenic nan legitimacy of nan horrific traumas they person endured."
The female past revenge a countersuit and criminal charges, prompting nan constabulary investigation.
Dallas Cowboys backmost Dak Prescott sits connected nan chair during nan 2nd half of an NFL shot crippled against nan San Francisco 49ers successful Santa Clara, Calif., Sunday, October 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)
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But a constabulary charismatic told The Dallas Morning News connected Thursday that investigators had recovered "insufficient evidence" to support nan case.
"I want to convey nan Dallas Police Department and Dallas County District Attorneys’ agency for their thorough investigation of nan allegations against Dak Prescott," Prescott’s lawyer Levi McCathern told nan outlet. "As we knew they would, they recovered thing successful their extended exploration of nan facts that would support a criminal prosecution. We are assured that astatine nan extremity of rule enforcement’s investigation into nan extortion lawsuit that they will find nan accuser and her attorneys conscionable arsenic blameworthy arsenic Dak is innocent."
"As I person said from nan beginning, Dak is simply a awesome shot player, and an moreover amended human. He would ne'er battle immoderate woman. These mendacious accusations were brought up 7 years aft nan alleged events for 1 logic and 1 logic only: to statement nan pockets of nan accuser and her attorneys. Their behaviour is an affront to each nan existent survivors of intersexual assault."
Dak Prescott, #4 of nan Dallas Cowboys, looks connected against nan Philadelphia Eagles astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected November 5, 2023, successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)
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Attorneys for nan female person said they will proceed to move guardant pinch their counterclaim. According to ESPN, they revenge a mobility connected Monday to person Prescott’s suit dismissed.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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