By Sally Jenkins, Washington Post

(“Winston is not free of his accuser yet; she will persist in trying to win some kind of legal resolution. “Unquestionably,” said Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a civil rights lawyer, a CEO of Champion Women (an advocacy group for women in sports) and a legal consultant to the young woman. Winston’s defenders claim his accuser is a gold-digger, but to be frank, a civil lawsuit is the avenue that’s left to her since Florida State’s pally local cops robbed her of a proper criminal inquiry, back when she was an 18-year-old, first-semester freshman dreaming up this supposed scam against a player who had yet to appear in a game and whose name she didn’t yet know. “It’s the only thing a court can give you at this point,” Hogshead-Makar said.)

Washington Post story link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/jameis-winston-case-shows-cronyism-for-star-athletes/2014/12/23/d2ee4948-8adc-11e4-9e8d-0c687bc18da4_story.html