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Dear Judge Berman: Fan Letters In 'deflategate' Show Passion, Anger


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2015-09-09T230623Z_1006980001_LYNXNPEB881DP_RTROPTP_2_CSPORTS-US-NFL-BRADY-LETTERS.JPGBy Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - If the surreal saga known as "Deflategate" has proven anything, it is that National Football League fans take their sport, and Tom Brady, very seriously. Look no further than the people – including a lawyer, a chemist and a schoolteacher – who wrote approximately 20 letters to U.S. District Judge Richard Berman last month while he considered whether to uphold the New England Patriots quarterback's four-game suspension for an alleged scheme to deflate footballs used in a January playoff game. Massachusetts attorney Steven Kramer challenged Brady's suspension on grounds including "double jeopardy, issue preclusion and collateral estoppel," a legal doctrine that protects defendants from being tried more than once in a criminal trial for the same issue.

 

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