The Florida State Seminoles have made a lot of news for the wrong reasons this season, and there was another addition to the list on Christmas Eve. There have been many accusations lately about the Tallahassee Police Department disregarding misconduct by Seminoles players as a form of protection, and they responded to a records request that showed just that.
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According to Deadspin, a reporter issued a records request in September involving the names of several FSU football players, presumably to see what incidents the men were involved in and how they were handled. The police claimed that they found one case where evidence had not been processed for over three years.
The Tallahassee Police issued a response to the records request and referred to the case, saying that one piece of evidence was "not immediately processed." I suppose they are technically correct with that claim.The response talks about a follow-up report that explains that the evidence ultimately had no impact on the case.
Perhaps the waiting period had something to do with that. The case allegedly involves an (at the time of the incident) FSU player that admitted to soliciting a crack-smoking prostitute. The woman later went door-to-door claiming that she was raped.
The untested evidence consisted of DNA swabs from the case, and the fact that they were not processed for three years prevented prosecutors from having enough evidence to file charges against the player.
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