"Marshawn Lynch accuser charged with making false statement"

[Jamaal510]

More: http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/lynch-accuser-charged-with-making-false-statement/ar-BB8KUhI

The woman who accused Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch of assault and property damage in August was charged with making a false statement to a public servant, according to the Seattle Times.

Jammie Lynn Ficarelli, 31, of Everett, Wash., was charged Thursday in King County District Court. Ficarelli claimed that Lynch assaulted her in a Bellevue apartment and damaged her purse on Aug. 10.

Bellevue police recommended that Ficarelli be charged with making a false or misleading statement after finding out that Lynch was at a hotel about a mile away from where the incident occurred.

Two witnesses also told investigators that Ficarelli's injuries were caused by a fall.

[madville]

1. They should charge false accusers

If an accusation is proven to be false I've always thought that the accuser should be subject to the potential penalty their false charge could have resulted in.

[yeoman6987]

3. Me too

It is horrible what a false charge can do to someone.

[NaturalHigh]

5. Yes it is.

I still occasionally see comments that the Duke lacrosse players must have been guilty "of something." Apparently it doesn't matter that their accuser is now in prison for murder. That kind of damages her credibility, in my opinion.

[kcr]

7. THe reason you still see those comments

is every time the subject of false accusations comes up you don't even have to go five comments before someone is braying about the Duke Lacross case. The rallying cry of Remember Duke Lacrawwwwwwse!!!! is a testament to just how rare false accusations actually are. It will be a rallying cry 100 years from now.

[NaturalHigh]

8. From Slate:

False rape accusations exist, and they are a serious problem.


How frequent are false accusations? A commonly cited estimate, which may have originated with feminist author Susan Brownmiller in the 1970s, is that they account for only about 2 percent of rape reports. After the Oberst fiasco, feminist blogger Rebecca Watson posted a video asserting that, statistically, you will be wrong two out of 100 times if you presume a rape accusation to be true and 98 out of 100 times if you presume it to be false.


In fact, as Emily Bazelon and Rachael Larimore wrote in Slate five years ago, official data on what law enforcement terms “unfounded” rape reports (that is, ones in which the police determine that no crime occurred) yield conflicting numbers, depending on local policies and procedures—averaging 8 percent to 10 percent of all reported rapes. Yet the truth is even knottier than these statistics suggest. The answer to “How common are false allegations?” depends largely on how false allegations are defined. Do we count only cases in which a police report—or a complaint to some other official authority, such as a college administrator—is shown to be deliberately false? Do we include informal, word-of-mouth charges like the one against Oberst? What of he said/she said cases in which the truth is never known?


http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/09/false_rape_accusations_why_must_be_pretend_they_never_happen.html

A good article if you care to read.

[NaturalHigh]

2. This is the first I've heard of this story.

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/10/charge-of-making-false-statement-filed-against-marshawn-lynch-accuser/

[Cha]

4. Damn people!

[AnalystInParadise]

6. So wait.............

someone made a false accusation against a rich and famous person? No way, that never happens.........

People need help.