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Drinking was not the issue - even 2-3 drinks as I"m sure there are many kids drinking every weekend and none of them have been accused of such a crime.
If they were drunk or high perhaps there might be some long shot at a crime of some sort.
But Erickson, the one person that is pleaing and wanting to make Ryan and himself look as bad as possible, testified that Ryan had not taken any sort of drugs and only consumed 2-3 drinks the entire night.
And watered down drinks at best.
There is no motivation for this crime from Ryan or Chuck.
Besides, if Ryan needed money there were at least 10 different people he knew that were present at the club that they could have borrowed money from.
Rather than leave the club, walk to the car, pick up a tire tool, walk downtown to within 2 blocks of the police station and to rob a 6 foot 3 inch, 315 pound X-college football player and end up hitting the victim 11 times and then (just for good measure) strangle the victim with his own belt!!
Then calmly walk back to the night club after the crime (911 was called at 2:26am) and have a conversation with someone in the middle of one the busiest intersections in Columbia before returning to the club STILL without any money! Then staying until 5am because a police officer was in the parking lot.
This is a dream story at best!
The prosecutor could not produce a single witness to show the bar was open after 1:30am.
The prosecutor stated in court that there was not one single piece of evidence to connect Ryan or Chuck to this crime.
Plus the prosecutor lied in court during his closing in reference to both the hair in the victim"s hand and Ryan"s cell phone calls.