{"id":226444,"date":"2016-10-25T10:50:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T17:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=226444"},"modified":"2016-10-25T10:50:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T17:50:31","slug":"brazilian-judge-rejects-dismissal-of-ryan-lochte-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/brazilian-judge-rejects-dismissal-of-ryan-lochte-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Judge Rejects Dismissal of Ryan Lochte Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian judge\u00a0<strong>Juliana Leal de Melo<\/strong> rejected a request to drop a case against\u00a0<strong>Ryan Lochte<\/strong> for filing a false robbery report during the Olympics in August. The decision was announced Monday, and prosecutors have 15 days to return the case to court.<\/p>\n<p>Lochte and swimmers\u00a0<strong>Jimmy Feigen<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jack Conger<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Gunnar Bentz<\/strong> were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/reports-ryan-lochte-fabricated-robbery-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">involved in a verbal altercation<\/a> with off-duty police officers after the taxi the four were riding in stopped at a gas station during the morning hours of August 14, shortly after the Olympic swimming competition had concluded. Lochte originally told his mother and later reporters that the four had been robbed at gunpoint, but investigations proved that to be false.<\/p>\n<p>Lochte&#8217;s lawyers had filed for the case to be dismissed. According to a rough translation from Globo, they argued that Lochte had practiced &#8220;atypical conduct&#8230;\u00a0<span class=\"goog-text-highlight\">since it would not have reported the <\/span><span class=\"goog-text-highlight\">occurrence of crime to the police, which would have started the office of investigations, from news published in the media.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span class=\"goog-text-highlight\">&#8220;I <\/span><span class=\"goog-text-highlight\">note that, as he sat under Brazilian law the possibility of investigative action of the police authority be triggered by the media news published. The criminis notitia serves so that the police authority start the research process. and once gathered sufficient evidence can be triggered criminal action,&#8221; said the judge in her decision.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lochte and the other three swimmers were each <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/suspensions-for-lochte-feigen-bentz-conger-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\">issued sanctions<\/a> as punishment for their behavior that night.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more from Globo <a href=\"http:\/\/g1.globo.com\/rio-de-janeiro\/noticia\/2016\/10\/justica-do-rio-rejeita-pedido-de-aquivamento-do-caso-ryan-lotche.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian judge\u00a0Juliana Leal de Melo rejected a request to drop a case against\u00a0Ryan Lochte for filing a false robbery report during the Olympics in August. 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