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Police cleared Christian Ziegler, the ousted chair of the Florida Republican Party, of rape allegations, but have asked prosecutors to charge him with video voyeurism.
Police have cleared the ousted chair of the Florida Republican Party of rape allegations, but have asked prosecutors to charge him with video voyeurism.
Police cleared the ousted chair of the Florida Republican Party of rape allegations on Friday, but said they have asked prosecutors to charge him with illegally video recording the sexual encounter he had with a female acquaintance. The Sarasota Police Department said in a statement that a review of a cellphone video Christian Ziegler made of the Oct. 2 encounter showed that it was “likely consensual,” making it impossible to charge him with rape. Police turned their findings over to the office of Sarasota County State Attorney Ed Brodsky on Friday, recommending that Ziegler be...
Police said that a “video showed that the encounter was likely consensual."
Florida Republican Party officials stripped Christian Ziegler of his chairmanship amid an investigation into rape allegations against him.