Quintez Cephus announces leave of absence from Badgers

Wide receiver is thought to be the Wisconsin Badgers not-so-secret weapon for the 2018 season. On Saturday, a big piece of that group announced he was taking a leave of absence from the team. Junior wide receiver Quintez Cephus went public with the news via Twitter, announcing that was leaving the team for awhile to deal with a legal battle on his hands. pic.twitter.com/2YglzG3k8b— Quintez...

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That hurts.... I appreciate his attempt to not be an distraction but can't help but wonder if his playing days at UW are over. He comes from a real rough background, could easily see him transfer to Valdosta state or West GA.

So charges sexual in nature? So he being charged with sexual assulat and he probably will say it was conseual

It would be nice if the law would allow for lie detector tests to formalize a base line as to what could indicate which person is telling the truth. We can't dismiss accusers, and at the same time, we can't always say they're being honest, so which one do we believe? In this day and age, with all the publicity, I'm afraid Cephus is going to automatically be guilty, even if there was consent.

This is a real tough area in law. I always hated being caught up in these investigations. Sometimes you just knew one of the people was lying, but the evidence pointed elsewhere. You couldn't use anything but their statements for judgement, even if you knew, based on their body language, they were lying. I had them win on both sides, where I knew the winner lied, but had no facts to prove it.

FWIW....
"The Madison Police Department released a statement on the matter tonight on behalf of Chief Mike Koval, saying, “MPD has recently been made aware that there is an individual on the UW Football Team making various statements through social media platforms. The MPD has conducted an investigation relative to the information that this individual has been sharing. In so far as this is an open investigation awaiting further decisions from the District Attorney’s Office. MPD will not be commenting further out of respect for the rights of individuals who have not been charged and are entitled to full due process of the law.”"

When I was a cop, we had a case where a high school girl reported that this man in an expensive sports car had propositioned her as she was walking home from school. She got the license number off the car, and said she could identify the man. Two of our officers went to the man's home, and asked him if he would voluntarily come into the police station for a conversation about the issue, and would he be willing to stand in a lineup. He refused to go, so they went back to the station and got a bench warrant to arrest him and bring him in.

They went to his home when the warrant came in and standing inside his foyer told him they were arresting him for a crime against a minor. He was cuffed, and taken to the station. In the station, he asked for an attorney, and got one. Since it was a Friday, he was bailed out by the attorney and went home for the weekend.

His wife, being quite religious, was appalled by what happened, and suggested he should go stay in a hotel somewhere until he proved it was all over, because she'd "lost trust in him around the children." He left, and during the following week, his wife had a restraining order placed on him keep him away, because she expected the worse.

They built a good case around him and the girl said she saw him often, and he had tried this before. He was guilty, no doubt about it.

I was asked to do some follow-up investigating prior to the court date, to insure the officers handling the case had covered all the bases. In the process, I made it a point to watch this girl walking home from school every day, just like the day she filed the complaint. I also noted the time of day.

One thing that stood out to me was that the girl never seemed to walk home alone. She had two particular friends that walked with her, and her home was the first of the three, so they were with her all the way to her front walk. The second thing I noticed was that the intersection where this allegedly happened was very busy at that particular time of day because people leaving an office building nearby traveled through that intersection leaving work every day. He happened to be one of the high managers in that office building.

Then I took a female reserve officer with me, on a Saturday, and interviewed the two girls who walked with the victim from school every day. I found out that she had not walked alone through that intersection for at least a full semester, without one of them being with her. At first, they had thought there might have been a day or two, but when we tracked back the days they didn't walk with her, there were no days she was alone.

Then I got deeper into the situation, and asked them questions about what she liked, and didn't like. Come to find out she talked - often - about finding a man who had a fancy sports car, and lots of money, to buy her things. A "sugar daddy" type. Then they told me how she fantasized about things, and that particular sports car had been part of some of her wild fantasies. In fact, some of the fantasies were so bold that I had to leave the room while these girls told them to the female cop, with the girls' mothers present. I got the transcripts.

The next step was to look into the girl herself. They had lived in the area for two years. I found out where they'd lived before, and found out she had accused a teacher of touching her inappropriately. The teacher was fired, and her family moved from the area because they didn't want her going through the stigma of what happened.

Then there was another incident as well, before that, but swept under the rug, and hidden.

When asked about all of it, just before trial, she admitted she "might be fantasizing."

Charges were dropped.

The story didn't end there. The wife had already sued for divorce, he was fired from his job, and had nothing left.

Two weeks after the charges were dropped, he took his own life.

Simply put, make damned certain you're right when you bring charges, and anything that can help you get a better degree of accuracy in making that decision should be used. Even if there is a margin of error for a lie detector test, it's not nearly as bad as human error simply from oversight.

Just my opinion, based on my own experience.

It’s the job of the prosecutor to bring charges based on the evidence gathered. Human error can be set straight thru discovey and trial. That’s our system. If I am a defense attorney number one I don’t even allow my client to submit to a lie detector test and if I am in the position that Cephus is in I hire council before I do squat.

Also if she was and was willing at the time she could sober up and said that because she was he took advantage of her that way.

GBP4EVER said:

Also if she was and was willing at the time she could sober up and said that because she was he took advantage of her that way.

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If and again IF she made conflicting statements that would come out in discovery if charges are filed and then it comes down to how credible she is. Also not sure on what Wisconsin law deems consent.

Good point on consent. Some states seem to believe that any female who accompanies a guy out of a bar at night has given consent. Others believe he has to have a notarized consent form made out in triplicate, and filed with the States Attorney.

It's a real mixed bag.