I'm no lawyer.....

by Otony, Thursday, July 31, 2014, 18:10 (3709 days ago) @ Wildcat

......and I didn't stay in a Holiday Inn last night.

In my head, I know you and Byron are completely correct. In my heart.....well.

On the face of things, it appears that Ventura offered Kyle the opportunity to get out of this without going to court. It also appears that while the event may not have occurred exactly as told by Kyle, other people present at the time found Ventura offensive and boorish. I think the consensus may have been he "needed a whupping" even if he didn't get one, and the sea story began there....

Unfortunately, both men's egos are/were such that a compromise couldn't be found. Should Kyle have retracted? Yes. But having said that, I think it was incumbent of Ventura to have continued to pursue an alternative solution, rather than drag a grieving woman to court. Yes, she is the representative of the estate, but she is still the widow of a murdered man. Some compassion could have gone a long way, and yet it still ended up in court.

To me that shows a man whose single-minded pursuit of his "reputation" was more important than, oh, um, his reputation. Because to his dying day, he will be remembered as the guy that dragged a woman into court to finish off an argument with her dead husband over whose d**k was bigger, right or wrong.

Otony