Prosecutors back off felony claim against Patriots owner Robert Kraft [View all]

Lawyers for the state of Florida have backed down from a recent claim that New England Patriots football team owner Robert Kraft committed a felony prostitution offense a year ago. In a court filing Thursday night, Florida prosecutors revised their position in an appeal concerning video evidence in the high-profile case arising from a massage parlor sex sting.

Kraft, 78, remains charged with two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution. Police said the part-time Palm Beach resident was caught on a secret camera paying for sex acts on separate days.

A county judge has ruled prosecutors can’t use the videos because Jupiter police used an unlawful warrant when they recorded Kraft and other people at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.

In a pleading Dec. 23, Kraft’s attorneys cited two older federal court cases to make the point that “hidden video surveillance” by law enforcement “raises the spectre of the Orwellian state.”

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