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Pedro named in lawsuit

SwitchHitter Dec 26 2005 04:19 PM

[url]http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/mlb/12/25/report.phone.card.scam/index.html[/url] He's one of five players named in the suit. Pedro says Octavio Dotel lured him in.

ScarletKnight41 Dec 26 2005 04:57 PM

D'Oh-tel!

seawolf17 Dec 26 2005 05:02 PM

Never trust a Yankee.

KC Dec 26 2005 07:35 PM

Kind of a weird story, news of problems surfaced at the beginning of the month. Why is it a cival suit? Scams usually would be kind of criminal in my mind.

ScarletKnight41 Dec 26 2005 07:50 PM

It doesn't have to be an either/or thing. There could be criminal liability as well, depending on the statutes. Generally, though, it's easier to establish civil liability than criminal liability because criminal cases require a higher standard of proof (for example, OJ was found civilly liable even though he wasn't convicted of the criminal charges).