Nightclub fails to recover Roethlisberger video

Pittsburgh Steelers' Ben Roethlisberger case: Nightclub unable to obtain video - ESPN

he attorney representing the Georgia nightclub where Ben Roethlisberger is accused of secksually[..]aulting a college student said the club cannot salvage recorded video footage of the night the alleged incident took place.

The Capital City nightclub's system recorded over footage from March 5, attorney Carl Cansino told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for Thursday's editions. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was unable to retrieve the footage as potential evidence, he said.

"The DVD system overwrote itself," Cansino told the Tribune-Review. "Had it just been deleted, they might have been able to save some of it."

A source familiar with the investigation told ESPN's Kelly Naqi that there was no camera inside the Milledgeville nightclub that was pointed toward the bathroom where the 20-year-old woman claims the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback "secksually[..]aulted or secksually manipulated" her -- many of the club's security cameras are focused on the main dance floor area. The value of any footage obtained from those recordings would be to see the demeanor of the accuser and her friends as they made their exit from the club, the source told Naqi.

The source also maintains club manager Rocky Duncan viewed the footage from the output of those cameras from the night in question before the GBI requested the footage from him, but said it was hard for Duncan to determine much from the footage because there were a couple of hundred people in the club and the footage is in black and white.

Duncan did not return a call from ESPN for comment.

The source added that the GBI initially had trouble getting the footage from the club's DVR but ultimately was successful in doing so. A call to GBI Public Information Officer John Bankhead was not immediately returned.

A member of Roethlisberger's entourage shot his own video inside the club, where Roethlisberger had gone to celebrate his birthday. According to Cansino, the video shows the accuser with the 28-year-old Roethlisberger, but the attorney described the footage as your standard home video.

Among the people who arrived at the club with Roethlisberger on March 5 were teammate Willie Colon, a Coraopolis, Pa., police officer and a Pennsylvania state trooper. Roethlisberger has a home about 30 miles from the nightclub.

The investigation is entering its third week. Roethlisberger has not been charged and his lawyer, Ed Garland, said this week that he hoped the investigation would wrap up within a month. Garland said he believes Roethlisberger will not be charged.

On Wednesday, the GBI withdrew its request for a DNA sample from Roethlisberger.

The Steelers start offseason practices and training sessions for regulars beginning Monday, and coach Mike Tomlin said he expects Roethlisberger to attend.

Kelly Naqi is a reporter for ESPN.

this chick might as well chalk it up as a loss... you gave that nicca head before you got paid and now you regret the sh!t

Funny how everything coming out about this !! is good for Ben......I smell coverup.

Game Over. This!!y mutha!!a is home free.

The Fix is definitely in... smh

Aint this bout a !!

He probably !! up one more time

roth running with the irish mob..

Same thing I thought when reading the thread title.

What is confusing to me is how do you know the night a alleged secksual[..]ault goes down in your club and you still erase the video. That's what doesn't make sense to me. It's not like she brought this !! out a month later, they knew minutes after it happened. Not saying he's guilty, I'm just saying either that club is really slack or they did that !! on purpose, neither one is good.

Big Ben got 9 lives

so the video just happened to get over written although the club owner KNEW all this happened that same night,and they still somehow let the video get over written?........



ben roethlisberger is the "luckiest" dude in the nfl..

Illuminati!!!!!!!!

Yea since he knew it happened, yea it does seem like a cover up. Usually though if everything is straight any night, this happens w/ recordings most of the time.

I don't see a cover up :rolleyes:

this is also saying he looked at the video,and than the dvd system just magically over wrote the vid....reading this article almost doesn't feel real...it's almost as comical as ben saying he,and this chick were in the bathroom,and she fell,and bumped her head.....



ahh well....

This is for all the !!es who took down good niccas for nothing. Pay back is a !!.

I hope you don't have any sisters or daughters

I do not. She was in a club !!ing with an athlete. The !! did she think was going to happen? They were gonna hug then play patty cakes? !!es need to grow up and take responsibilities for their actions.

so how many chicks have you secksually[..]aulted?

Another Big Ben incident washed away... smh tired of this cracker gettin away wit !!... if it was a african american athlete his a$$ would be locked up!!