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  • PLAY BASKETBALL AND COMMENTED ON

  • THE GAME WHILE HE WAS USING THE

  • RING DOORBELL'S MICROPHONE.

  • LAURA: ROBERT KRAFT PLEADED NOT

  • GUILTY TO SOLICITING

  • PROSTITUTION AT A FLORIDA A.

  • A JUDGE RULED SURVEILLANCE

  • VIDEOS FROM THE A CANNOT BE USED

  • IN THIS CASE.

  • BUT LAWYERS ARE QUESTIONING THAT

  • AND SUGGESTING KRAFT COULD BE

  • FACING A FELONY CHARGE INSTEAD

  • OF TWO MISDEMEANOR COUNTS.

  • WHAT IS THE ARGUMENT FOR HIS

  • FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS.

  • JOINING US, A FORMER PROSECUTOR

  • AND TRIAL ATTORNEY.

  • PROSECUTORS TURNING YOU HAVE THE

  • HEAT.

  • AS A FORM PROSECUTOR, WALK US

  • THROUGH WHAT THAT MEANS.

  • IT SOUNDS LIKE AN UNUSUAL MOVE.

  • HOW WOULD THIS CHANGE HOW

  • PROSECUTORS PROCEED IN THE CASE.

  • >> THIS IS A SURPRISE TO ME.

  • THERE IS A SUPPRESSION ISSUE.

  • KRAFT'S ATTORNEYS GOT VIDEO

  • SURVEILLANCE SUPPRESSED.

  • PROSECUTORS SAID TO THE JUDGE

  • THERE WAS NO HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

  • SO WHEN I READ THE FLORIDA LAWS

  • I DON'T SEE A FELONY THAT COULD

  • BE FOR TRAFFICKING.

  • THERE ARE MISDEMEANORS HE'S

  • CURRENTLY CHARGED WITH.

  • IF THEY ARE THREATENING THIS,

  • WHY DIDN'T YOU CHARGE THE THIRD

  • DEGREE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

  • I THINK THIS IS DISINGENUOUS FOR

  • THE PROSECUTOR TO THREATEN THE

  • THIRD DEGREE WHEN THEY ONLY

  • CHARGED MISDEMEANORS TO THIS

  • POINT.

  • LAURA: WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU ARE

  • IN ROBERT KRAFT'S ATTORNEY'S

  • SHOES?

  • WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD DIG

  • YOUR HEELS IN ON A DEFENSE WITH

  • THIS?

  • >> THE FIRST THING I WOULD DO IS

  • TELL MR. KRAFT NOT TO BE MAKING

  • ANY PUBLIC STATEMENTS.

  • THERE IS A FAIR PROBABILITY THAT

  • IF THE STATE DOES NOT WIN THE

  • APPEAL TO REVERSE THE DECISION

  • FOR THE ADMISSIBILITY OF THE

  • VIDEOTAPE, THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE

  • TO PROVE THE CASE.

  • BECAUSE THAT JUDGE SUPPRESSED

  • THE FACT HE WAS PULLED OVER AND

  • IDENTIFIED.

  • THEY WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN FOR

  • SURE THAT IT WAS ROBERT KRAFT

  • RSH UNTIL THEY PULLED HIM OVER

  • AND I.D.'D HIM.

  • THERE HAS BEEN NO DISCUSSION IN

  • THE MEDIA ABOUT ARE THEY WILLING

  • TO TESTIFY?

  • THERE IS A CHANCE THIS CASE

  • WON'T BE ABLE TO STAND ON ITS

  • OWN MERITS.

  • LAURA: WHEN THE JUDGE RULED THE

  • POLICE DID NOT HAVE A SNEAK AND

  • PEEK WARRANT.

  • WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE FIVE

  • DAYS OF TAPE THAT WERE ROLLED ON

  • AT THE DAY A WHICH CAUGHT WHO

  • KNOWS WHAT ON SURVEILLANCE.

  • DOES ALL THAT GO AWAY IF THE

  • WARRANT WASN'T PROPER?

  • KRAFT'S ATTORNEYS, THEY ARE

  • TALKING ABOUT HOURS AND HOURS OF

  • TAPE.

  • >> THE JUDGE'S RULING PREVENTS

  • IT FROM BEING USED IN A

  • PROSECUTION AGAINST THE

  • DEFENDANT.

  • BUT IT'S NOT THAT THE VIDEO WILL

  • BE DESTROYED.

  • MAYBE THERE WILL BE SOME CIVIL

  • PIECES WHERE THAT COULD BE USED.

  • THOSE ARE GREAT QUESTIONS.

  • BUT THE GREATEST IMPACT ON THE

  • COURT'S RULING IS IT CAN'T BE

  • USED IN THE PROSECUTION AGAINST

  • CRAFT.

  • IF THIS VIDEO CANNOT BE USED BY

  • THE PROSECUTOR, I DON'T KNOW HOW

  • THEY WILL PROVE THE CASE AGAINST

  • KRAFT.

  • ARE THEY GOING TO TURN TO THE

  • PEOPLE GIVING THE SEXUAL FAVORS?

  • WILL THEY BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY

  • ROBERT KRAFT WITHOUT JUST THE

  • MEDIA REPORTS?

  • ALL GREAT ISSUES FOR KRAFT AND

  • THE DEFENSE TEAM.

  • THEY DID A GREAT JOB SO FAR.

  • LAURA: THERE IS ALSO THE ISSUE

  • OF AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE WHO

  • LEGITIMATELY RECEIVED MASSAGES

  • WITH THEIR CLOTHES OFF WHEN

  • CAMERAS WERE ROLLING.

  • YOU GO IN AND YOU THINK YOU ARE

  • GETTING A MASSAGE.

  • WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THAT AND

  • WHERE WILL IT GO FROM HERE?

  • >> THAT IS THE EXACT REASON WHY

  • THE JUDGE GRANTED THE MOTION TO

  • SUPPRESS THE VIDEOTAPE.

  • HE SAYS THAT'S UNREASONABLE.

  • HE'S GOT FOUR PEOPLE WALKING

  • INTO A BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT

  • FOR LEGAL REASONS, AND AS THEY

  • ARE UNROBING FOR A MASSAGE THEY

  • ARE BEING VIDEOTAPED.

  • THAT GETS TO THE WHOLE POINT OF

  • THE FOURTH AMENDMENT, AND THE

  • REASONABLENESS.

  • HERE IT WAS NOT REASONABLE.

  • NOT ONLY THIS JUDGE, BUT FOUR

  • OTHER JUDGES IN FLORIDA RULED IN

  • THESE TYPE CASES THAT THAT'S

  • OVERLY BROAD.

  • ROBERT KRAFT'S LAWYERS ARE DOING

  • A GREAT JOB.

  • LAURA: THE CASE MAY BE ELEVATED

  • TO A FELONY.

  • WHAT'S YOUR BIGGEST TAKEAWAY

  • FROM WHERE THE CASE STAND RIGHT

  • NOW?

  • THERE IS STILL MORE TO COME.

  • >> THE APPEAL WILL BE DECIDED.

  • IF KRAFT'S ATTORNEYS ARE

  • SUCCESSFUL, I THINK THE CASE

  • WILL DISMISS THIS.

  • THE THIRD DEGREE WAS IN THE

  • BRIEF.

  • IT WASN'T A PUBLIC STATEMENT.

  • I DON'T ANY THEY WILL GO THAT

  • ROUTE.

  • >> I THINK THE JUDGE IS MAKING A

  • LEGALLY CORRECT MOVE.

  • I THINK THE PROSECUTORS -- THEY

  • ARE GOING AFTER A 78-YEAR-OLD

  • MAN WHO IS A WIDOW.

  • MARRIED FOR 48 YEARS, HE HAS

  • DONE TREMENDOUS THINGS FOR THE

  • NFL.

  • I THINK THEY ARE USING HIM FOR

  • THEIR OWN PURPOSES.

  • I DON'T SEE WHY IF THEY ARE NOT

  • CHARGE OTHER CITIZENS WHO

  • ALLEGEDLY GO TO THESE

  • ESTABLISHMENTS FOR ILLEGAL

  • REASONS, WHEN THEY GET CHARGED

  • WITH A MISDEMEANOR, WHY ARE THEY

  • TARGETING A MAN LIKE ROBERT

  • KRAFT WHO IS SUCH A

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