>>Masotta turned up with the Tucson Gila Monsters of the WPHL. He became
>>their goalie when Tucson's regular goalie left. His agent issued
>>a statement on the WPHL mailing list that Masotta pled no contest
>>(different
>>from guilty) and he said something along the lines of "everyone in the
>>case
>>including the judge agreed that my client did not make racist
remarks".
>
>Well, he gave a quote to the local paper where he said that he did make
>the comments and was sorry.
>
>Guess he was misquoted or something.  :-)
 
As I said to someone privately -- that's just lawyer-speak ...
 
When you plead no contest, part of it is, officially, that you don't
have to actually admit to the wrongdoing.  It doesn't mean he didn't do
it.  Just like OJ and his no contest plea on the first wife-beating
incident, he always used that to say "Well, I was never guilty of that"
etc... ---- and just like Pete Rose, when he agreed to the baseball ban,
without admitting he bet on baseball.  Of course, Bart Giamatti then
gave his OPINION that Rose DID bet on baseball, which would be akin
right now to the prosecutor in the Massotta case saying "Well, in my
opinion, he's guilty of everything, but we let him plead no contest."
 
AW
 
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