Jameis WInston's attorney is threatening to sue CNN for defamation if it airs The Hunting Ground, the documentary on campus rape that features Winston's accuser. The film is set to air on Sunday at 8:00 p.m. ET.
In a letter to CNN, also apparently sent to several news outlets including the Hollywood Reporter which posted it in full, attorney John A. Boudet claims the film presents a one-sided narrative with no effort to investigate the truth fairly. He cites an e-mail by producer Amy Herdy to Winston's accuser's attorney, where Herdy notes that they "don't operate the same way as journalists -- the film project is very much in the corner of advocacy for victim's so there would be no need to get the perpetrator's side" as evidence of actual malice and the producers' "conscious disregard for the truth.