The lawyer representing the woman accusing Shannon Sharpe of rape will not be releasing the video that allegedly depicts the two engaging in sex ... calling it "key evidence" in their case against the former NFL star.
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00:00To Shannon Sharpe and the video of Shannon and his accuser that you won't be seeing, not yet anyway, according to the accuser's attorney, Tony Busby.
00:10Now, Tony Busby says this video, which Shannon Sharpe has described as a sex tape, will not be coming out.
00:17He is acknowledging, Tony Busby, that it exists and says that we discussed this in mediation with Shannon Sharpe.
00:26He did not want to see the video. We didn't show it to him, but he knows it exists.
00:30But Tony Busby says this is key evidence in our case against Mr. Sharpe, so it will not be coming out.
00:37He will not be leaking this.
00:39And saying basically he's going to come out during the trial.
00:41Right.
00:42If there is a trial.
00:42If there is a trial, it will come out, which to me sounds like he's still dangling it over Shannon's head to say, we can meet, we can settle this, or we can go forward into a trial, and then the video is going to come out.
00:56Now, Shannon has described the video much differently from what his accuser is saying.
01:02This is what he said when he actually challenged Busby to release it.
01:06Tony Busby targets black men, and I believe he's going to release a 30-second clip of a sex tape that tries to make me look guilty and played into every stereotype you could possibly imagine.
01:16That video should actually be 10 minutes or so.
01:19Hey, Tony, instead of releasing your edit, put the whole video out.
01:23I don't have it, or I would myself.
01:25You know what happened, and you're trying to manipulate the media.
01:27What's interesting is Tony and his client have never made any sort of mention to this video.
01:34Shannon Sharp and his attorney and his attorney's team are the only ones who have talked about this.
01:40So Tony actually made reference to that fact when we talked to him last night about all this.
01:46He said Sharp's team is the only one that disclosed that, not us.
01:50So I don't really know what to make of that, if Sharp's team is the only one speaking about this video and Busby isn't.
01:56Well, I think what you can glean from it is that this was a centerpiece of the negotiation before the lawsuit was filed.
02:04I mean, I think that's the one thing that's clear, right?
02:07Yes, for sure.
02:09And it still remains at the center because it certainly sounds like, regardless of how Shannon describes it or the accuser describes it,
02:18for Shannon Sharp and his career, it's probably not advantageous for it to come out.
02:22Right, right.
02:23As he's from Atlanta, him refusing to look at the evidence just gives me the impression that he wants plausible deniability.
02:29And maybe the evidence should be released so that way he does not deny his actions.
02:33I mean, if that was me, I would definitely want to look at the evidence to see what I did and did not do so I can maintain my innocence.
02:39I have a feeling, well, you know, actually, I don't know whether he actually saw it or not.
02:44He's certainly aware of it.
02:45Yeah.
02:46But it's unclear to me, did he see the whole thing?
02:49Well, through Busby.
02:50Busby says he did not see it.
02:51They offered to show it to him and that he didn't want to see it.
02:54But Shannon knows.
02:57He knows what's on it because he was involved in it.
02:58He was there and he knows when it was recorded.
03:00But he also may have seen it previously.
03:02We don't know.
03:03We don't know.