Order In The Court
There's an interesting twist in the Frostee Rucker case. Photographic evidence of the alleged victim taken on a cell-phone camera is dated from November but the incident took place last August.
It could just be that the date on the phone's date is incorrect, however the person who took the photos is currently out of the country, which places the matter in limbo. It's one reason why the case was continued Thursday until Aug. 11

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WTF? Cell phone dates aren't just "incorrect" (like a watch may be) because cell phones get the dates and times from the cell phone network...that's why you don't have to set the time on your phone or change it when you change time zones, etc. Sounds fishy to me.
Posted by: Mike | July 14, 2006 07:57 AM
Agree, Mike. I was thinking the same thing.
Posted by: affholter87 | July 14, 2006 02:31 PM
Yeah, Frostee is just the unluckiest guy in the world. An 11 year old girl, 2 college coeds and his girlfriend at SC are all just liars. Get used to these types of reports/situations.....Pom Pom Pete has created a criminal culture in South Central by bending the rules and letting his players go unpunished when they break the law. When you recruit mental-midget, thug-life-ghetto superstars things like this are going to happen. Brace yourself troji-canes (Miami of the west), it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Posted by: Miguelito | July 14, 2006 04:23 PM
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Posted by: Ron | July 14, 2006 04:34 PM
Hey Miguelito and Ron: 66-19
Posted by: Dave | July 14, 2006 07:11 PM
Spoken like a true blue bruin. Envy clouding the ol' judgment, eh?
Posted by: Rev. Flores | July 14, 2006 09:51 PM
What the media could have indicted the guy before he ever got to trial? A girl portrays herself as peachy clean and then we find out she is a liar. Wow, I wonder where I have heard this before.
Its like a west coast version of Eagle Colorado. If you feel you have to take your case to ESPN, then you probably dont have a case.
Certain things stuck out on that whole Kobe fiasco in Eagle. Ie-the girl sleeping with at least 2 other guys after she was supposedly raped. This is not normal or even close to normal.
This deal filing a charge a year after it happened and just after he was drafted in the 3rd round is what sticks out here. I guess I am a common and simple man, but these things just strike me as out of the norm. This is just a sister looking for a payout.
Posted by: free kobe | July 14, 2006 10:22 PM
Our UCLA fan made an extra accuser magically appear. I think the allegations are bad enough as they are. Lets not put this one on the ghetto, they have enough to deal with. Frostee is from a racially mixed, middle class area and he went to a good high school. Girl beaters, should he be one, come from all backgrounds. Again, I think we are talking about a lot of money and a lot of fishiness with the story, but that's why they make courts. And last time I checked, Frostee wasn't at SC since the girl made the allegation. Oh that's right, maybe the timing on her phone was off and she meant to complain within some plausible time. Either way, this isn't an SC issue (as opposed to the thugamugs at UCLA) and no school is responsible for the lives and allegations made about alumni or I would have to say current UCLA administrators, etc, are responsible for my pizza and Chinese take-out being late.
Posted by: Anonymous | July 15, 2006 12:47 AM
scott,
pete carroll can rightfully be blamed for a lot of things that are certain to bring disgrace and trouble to the usc football program and to the new usc with its serious academic standards.
however, the get out of jail free cards and the football players can get away with anything they want aspect of usc football come courtesy of usc grad steve cooley, the la county district attorney, who was elected and entrusted to enforce the law fairly and equitably for all citizens of la county, but who has egregiously violated those duties in issuing those get out of jail for free cards to usc football players.
frostee's only real worry is that he is no longer playing for usc. he is in the nfl. however, usc certainly would not want to lose that recruiting advantage by failing to get frostee his get out of jail for free card.
we have all seen what happens to athletes in schools that do not have friendly da's ready with those get out of jail for free cards.
the duke lacrosse players were indicted by a grand jury that heard only the accuser's side of the story and they will all have to go through very painfull trials.
should the grand jury have heard both sides of the story? absolutely.
i can understand the anger of the ucla fans about the clearly uneven treatment of their football players by cooley.
and, if anyone wants to spend the time to sit through a few arraignments, preliminary hearings, and trials at the la county courthouse near the airport, in which cooley runs his operations, they will find that the ordinary citizens of la county get treated even worse than the ucla football players.
in a desire to keep up the illusion that his office is hard on crime and to justify higher salaries and budgets, cooley and his office rarely bother with indictments.
complaints come in to the lapd, such as the complaint against mark sanchez. solely on the basis of those accusations, arrest warrants are issued and mark sanchez's are arrested and bail is set at $200,000 or some other ridiculous amount which cooley's office knows to be unconstitutional and which many more than 90% of those arrested cannot possibly come up with.
the results, and you can see them for yourself at the airport courthouse. these poor mark sanchez's are stuck in the la prison system, which makes stalin's gulag system and guantanamo look like resorts.
the accused, many of who are completely innocent, cannot afford attorneys. they have a public defender appointed to defend them.
the standard advice- plead guilty.
if the unfortunate accused have evidence of their innocence, cooley and his office will not listen and it is certainly extremely rare for any public defender to fight the da's office.
i do not think vary many of them have any idea how to conduct a trial.
these innocent people end up in jail. if they survive that, they have criminal records and are condemned to go out and commit crimes in order to live. the criminal records block them from getting any real jobs.
all of this is great for cooley's bogus statistics, but a total disaster for the people of la county and for the victims who get hauled in and out of these courtrooms in manacles.
in those rare occasions when a conviction gets overturned by a federal court amid evidence of criminal conduct by prosecutors at cooley's office knowingly using perjured testimimony from jailhouse stoolies, is that poor innocent released from jail? hell no. are the prosecutors punished or prosecuted? hell no.
and, on those rare occasions when an accused victim, such as robert blake, actually is able to put up the bail and hire an attorney, cooley's office loses, what does cooley have to say about the jurors in van nuys who found blake innocent? cooley got on tv and announce that the jurors were stupid.
of course, cooley and his predecessors have an almost perfect record of losing every case that actually gets to trial- those bogus mcmartin pre-school child molestation cases, the oj case, the 1st round of the menendez parent murder cases before the da's office sicked some crooks at the corrupt california bar assn( for no legitimate reason) against leslie abrahmson,who had done a fine job defending them,and many others.
rather than just complaining about cooley's outrageous conduct, some of us have found a few fine law professors at loyola to run against cooley, defeat him, and clean up that cesspool over at the la county da's office.
after all, how can we sit back and let cooley and his crew make a mockery of the american justice system when our soldiers are fighting and dying to preceive those very rights and freedoms.
of course, pete carroll will no longer be able to offer get out of jail for free cards as a recruiting tool and usc football will lose some recruits.
however, in the long and short runs, both the people of la county and the new usc will benefit.
usc does not have to cheat to win at football of at anything else. pete carroll may, based on his 2 firings by nfl teams, but the new usc does not need these illegal extra benefits.
keep up the great work,
robert t. gilleran
Posted by: robert t. gilleran | July 15, 2006 08:09 AM
Question: Why is Robert T. Gilleran, the disbarred lawyer, such a lying, slandering, inaccurate and hating jerk?
Question: Does Gillyking serve as his new alias, to hide the shame?
Question: Couldn't he spend his time volunteering as jailhouse snitch to get back into the good graces of the court instead of writing his muddled garbage on football?
Posted by: Anonymous | July 15, 2006 09:22 PM
Robert,
You're a grown man so stop sucking up to Scott you big dork. I bet you were the biggest teacher's pet throughout school.
Posted by: Bobby | July 16, 2006 01:41 AM
Mike and Affholtler,
Not all cell phones have their clocks set to the network. You have to manually set the clock for many phones.
Posted by: T mobile rep | July 16, 2006 01:47 AM
NAH, Gillyking is just a sportsfan that happens to think that this Gilleran guy is just a dufus!
Posted by: Gillyking | July 16, 2006 07:50 AM
Yeah, %100 percent of all women at USC are liars when it comes to sexual abuse or battery?
Latest proof; imported technology acting fishy!!
That school needs to be shutdown!! What the hell are they teaching over there?
Posted by: Franchise | July 17, 2006 12:36 AM
To Mr. Gilleran, please defend yourself against your disbarment per the attached. If you cannot, then please refrain from referencing the Cooley offices or any other legitimate legal offices that you so envy being a part of.
http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_detail.aspx?x=70962
Posted by: SC from SO | July 18, 2006 09:26 PM