Does this constitute libel?

I only play a lawyer on message boards, but I'd imagine Ray Lewis could legally make Clay Travis' life hell and cost him olenty financially without ever giving a deposition in a libel case.

 

It's a shame Ray Lewis' missing white suit can't help defend his owner's good name.

 

If only they hadn't included that ridiculous fifth amendment to the Constitution that says people don't have to provide evidence against themselves.

 

They don't have to provide testimony against themselves.

Of course they have to turn over -- or have seized -- physical evidence. And, destroying, or otherwise withholding, physical evidence is a crime.

 

Like Liberace suing for libel when a reporter said he was homosexual.

 

The whole "Ray Lewis is clearly a murderer" consistently provides some of the stupidest takes in SJ history. If you followed that trial at all, it's fairly clear no one thinks he did any actual stabbing of any kind. Two criminals started a fight with two other criminals. The guys who started the fight died. That they smashed a champagne bottle over someone's head after feeling disrespected inside the club never seems to come up in these sob stories about how Ray Lewis should have done more than reach a financial settlement with the families of two guys who tried to assault him and his posse outside a club.

Ray Lewis is a lot of things. Murderer is not one of them. But the shorthand is typically funnier on Twitter.

 

I think we've covered the libel issue. What's missing is this:

http://www.metatube.com/en/videos/5895/Disney-s-Ray-of-Light-Ray-Lewis-TV-Funhouse/

 

Bo Jackson is a public figure too, and he's snacking right now on at least a meg from some schlub in Cali who threw out a spitball that he roided.