Jameis winston accuser uber

The NFL plans to suspend Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston for three games over an incident in which he was accused of groping an Uber driver, ESPN reported.

There were three of us in the car, not just one as has been reported. Winston has denied the allegations, but apologized to the driver in July for “the position he put her in,” while calling the incident “a learning experience.”

Winston was suspended for the first three games of this season after the NFL concluded that he “violated the Personal Conduct Policy by touching the driver in an inappropriate and sexual manner without her consent.” He’s been on and off the bench since then, but played the entirety of the Bucs’ 27-9 win over the 49ers on Sunday.

in March 2016.

The statement Clune released on Sunday reiterated his client's stance that the 23-year-old quarterback was alone in the car with her during the Uber ride, during which the female claims Winston "groped" her.

Clune had the following to say about the incident:

"I have been retained by the Uber driver who reported Mr.

Winston sexually assaulting her in 2016.

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He was not charged by police.

The quarterback also stirred controversy in 2014, when he stood on a table on the Florida State campus and shouted an anti-woman profanity.

This is the second sexual assault-related lawsuit that Winston has settled within the last few years, after he and Erica Kinsman settled her sexual battery suit against Winston and his defamation lawsuit against Kinsman in 2016.

I am confident that nothing inappropriate in nature happened in the car that evening and Jameis did not have any physical contact with the Uber driver. Darby's statement, however, contradicts what the Uber driver claims happened that night:

"I felt the need to come forward and clarify some inaccurate accounts of the evening of March 13, 2016 when myself, a friend and Jameis Winston took an Uber ride in Arizona.

We have asked the NFL this morning to investigate Mr. Darby and are demanding he immediately turn his phone over to the NFL so the GPS history can be forensically examined."

Details of the settlement have not been disclosed. The quarterback was banned from Uber after the driver filed a complaint with the ride-sharing service.

The accusations are just not true."

The NFL is currently investigating the allegations involving Tampa Bay's quarterback trying to determine what happened that night in Arizona.

NFL star Jameis Winston and the Uber driver who accused him of groping her in 2016 have reached a settlement in the case.

An Arizona woman known only as “Kate P.” filed a lawsuit seeking upwards of $75,000 in damages from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback in September, following allegations that he touched her inappropriately while the two were both waiting in a drive-thru line in 2016.

Both parties “reached an agreement,” according to a joint notice of settlement filed Monday in federal court, according to documents cited by the Tampa Bay Times.

The details of the proposed settlement have not yet been made publicly available.

Kate P.’s allegations against Winston became public knowledge in the fall of 2017 with the publication of a BuzzFeed report detailing her alleged experience with the former Heisman Trophy winner.

He “behaved poorly” and began shouting homophobic slurs at strangers on the street soon after she picked him up at around 2 a.m.

on March 13, 2016, Kate claimed in her interview with the outlet.

After he requested that they stop for food, he then “reached over and he just grabbed my crotch” while they were waiting in the drive-thru line of a Mexican restaurant, she continued.

He held his hand there for three to five seconds, she alleged, and removed it after she asked, “What’s up with that?”

The NFL also confirmed to BuzzFeed that the situation was “under review.”

An investigation that spanned eight months found that Winston had violated the league’s code of conduct by “touching the driver in an inappropriate and sexual manner without her consent,” leading the league to conclude that “disciplinary action was necessary and appropriate,” according to ESPN.

Winston was suspended in June for the first three games of the 2018 season, a punishment that cost him more than $100,000 in earnings, ESPN reports.

Winston denied the accusations against him in last November, claiming that he had been "falsely accused" and accusing the Uber driver of being "confused" about the number of people in the car with her and who was sitting next to her. 

Fellow NFL player Ronald Darby, cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles, also came to Winston’s defense shortly after the accusations surfaced last year, claiming that Kate P.’s story was “just not true.” There were three people in the car with her, not one, Darby claimed; he and Winston were seated together in the back seat, and “nothing inappropriate in nature happened,” he said.

Amid news of his suspension in June, Winston publicly apologized to the driver for “the position I put you in,” according to ESPN.

“It is uncharacteristic of me and I genuinely apologize,” his statement reportedly read.

According to the notice filed in court, both sides “are in the process of finalizing a settlement agreement but need approximately 10 days to complete this process.”