(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE Toronto 3, Philadelphia 2 Houston 10, Colorado 8 Toronto 9, Philadelphia 8 LA Dodgers 6, Seattle 1 Minnesota 7, Milwaukee 1 Cleveland 2, Pittsburgh 0 San Diego 8, Texas 7 Oakland 5, Arizona 1 San Francisco 10, LA Angels 5
AMERICAN LEAGUE Tampa Bay 10, NY Yankees 5 Chi White Sox 9, Detroit 0 Boston 7, Baltimore 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 4 NY Mets at Miami (Postponed) NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS Miami 109, Indiana 100 Houston 111, Oklahoma City 98 Milwaukee 111, Orlando 96 LA Lakers 111, Portland 88 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS NY Islanders 4, Washington 0 Dallas 7, Calgary 3 WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Chicago 101 New York 85 Indiana 90, Seattle 84 Las Vegas 99, Connecticut 78
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER New York 1, New York City FC 0 Columbus 3, Chicago 0 Philadelphia 0, New England 0 Orlando City at Miami (Canceled) FC Dallas at Houston (Canceled)
Phil Ellsworth / ESPN ImagesBy AARON KATERSKY, ABC News
(NEW YORK) — Surveillance video of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft at a massage parlor will remain out of public view because police violated his rights, a Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The Fourth District Court of Appeals said a trial court properly suppressed the video evidence.
“We find the trial courts properly concluded that the criminal defendants had standing to challenge the video surveillance and that total suppression of the video recordings was constitutionally warranted,” the appellate judges said.
Kraft and two dozen others were charged in 2019 with solicitation of prostitution after they were secretly recorded entering a Jupiter, Florida, day spa and receiving services.
Kraft has pleaded not guilty, but issued a public apology.
Prosecutors can appeal the ruling to Florida’s Supreme Court, but if it stands they could be forced to drop the misdemeanor charges for lack of evidence.
Kraft and the other defendants successfully argued their Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches were violated.
“The spa-client defendants in all of these cases had a subjective and objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in the massage parlor rooms,” the appellate judges said.
Using a phony bomb threat to clear the building, police installed hidden cameras in four of the massage rooms and in the lobby of the Orchids of Asia spa.
Three detectives monitored and recorded video from the hidden cameras over five days. The cameras recorded video continuously, but Jupiter detectives monitored the video feeds only during business hours.
The detectives toggled between the video feeds whenever they thought criminal conduct was imminent. They focused on the end of the massages because they said any sexual conduct typically occurred at that point. In all, police recorded 25 spa customers paying for sexual services.
Kraft was filmed visiting the spa on two occasions and was stopped by the police while driving away after his second visit. He was later charged with two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution.
“The type of law enforcement surveillance utilized in these cases is extreme. While there will be situations which may warrant the use of the techniques at issue, the strict Fourth Amendment safeguards developed over the past few decades must be observed,” the judges ruled.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE Boston 6, Philadelphia 3 Kansas City 4, Cincinnati 0 Cincinnati 5, Kansas City 0 Cleveland 6, Pittsburgh 1 Milwaukee 9, Minnesota 3 Houston 13, Colorado 6 San Diego 6, Texas 3 Oakland 4, Arizona 1 Seattle 6, L.A. Dodgers 4 San Francisco 7, L.A. Angels 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE Toronto 5, Baltimore 2 Tampa Bay 4, N.Y. Yankees 2 Chi White Sox 5, Detroit 3
NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 9, Chi Cubs 3 Chi Cubs 4, St. Louis 2 N.Y. Mets 5, Miami 3
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS Toronto 104, Brooklyn 99 Utah 124, Denver 105 Boston 128, Philadelphia 101 Dallas 127, L.A. Clippers 114
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Tampa Bay 5, Columbus 4 (OT) Boston 2, Carolina 1 Colorado 7, Arizona 1 Montreal 5, Philadelphia 3 Vancouver 4, St. Louis 3 WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Washington 98, Atlanta 91 Minnesota 91, Dallas 84 Los Angeles 83, Phoenix 74
(NEW YORK) — When Big Ten officials announced the decision to cancel fall sports this year, Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields hatched the idea to start a petition online requesting the conference reinstate the 2020 football season.
Fields’ petition, called “We Want to Play,” now has over 270,000 signatures.
On Wednesday, Fields spoke exclusively with ABC’s Good Morning America about his motivation to petition the Big Ten. Watch the full interview below:
(NEW YORK) — The Portland Trailblazers beat the Los Angeles Lakers100-93 Tuesday, while the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks lost to the Orlando Magic 122-110. Watch the full report from ABC’s Good Morning America:
iStockBy ABC News
