Leon Lee Resigns from Cyclones
According to a police report, Lee was involved in an altercation with a group of women who were staying in the room next to him Monday and Tuesday night at the Holiday Inn in Port St. Lucie. The women told the police that Lee had exposed himself to them and touched himself. Lee told the police that the women were knocking at his door and inciting him with profanity.Lee denied the 2 counts of exposure of sexual organs, but he turned himself in to avoid the embarrassment of being arrested.
-- written by Lee Jenkins, New York Times, 4/10
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I, for one, am shocked at the news. I've followed Leon's career in Japan since the early 1980's and I have never even heard or seen any type of behavior from him that would indicate that he was capable of doing something like this. Either someone is lying, or something possessed Leon to act this way. If something did possess Leon to do this, it sure wasn't spontaneous as he allegedly did this over a 2-day period.
Until Leon is proven guilty, I'll believe that he did not do what these women claim he did.
The lawyer for former Class A Brooklyn manager Leon Lee said his client could be cleared of indecent exposure charges by early next week. Lee resigned April 8 amid allegations that he had exposed himself at a Port St. Lucie hotel, but his lawyer, Richard Kibby, expects the charges to be dropped when the results of his own investigation are given to prosecutors next week.
"There's another side of this story that bears out what Lee has been saying," Kibby said.
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