[CBFF] How long till the love for Lovie?

[mactbone]

Anybody seen the court transcript or a quote from or
attributed to the DA? I've seen this and Manning Jr's
statements to the same effect but not anybody else
saying that the DA said those things.

As to David's point about Manning, Jr and probation;
I've seen more than a few athletes and other high
profile people get much less severe sentences than we
would think. I want to say that I know of people who
have been on probation and just got more probation
after the next arrest but I can't so I guess the
prosecutor (not the judge who wouldn't be privy to all
the information or power to make the deal) must have
had a good reason for doing this deal. The only reason
I can think of is that with the victim unconcious it
would be hard to prove who did what. There were no
witnesses other than the attackers themselves. It's
possible there was some proof or mitigating
circumstance, but from everything I've read it's just
Manning's on probation word versus Sazdi's unconcious
word and that doesn't seem like it would be hard to
convict Manning. I'm not a lawyer though so I can't
guess what the deal was.
-Chris

--- Phil DeNomme <pdenomme at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Ricky Manning is not the person who beat this
> individual, who punched this
> individual and caused injuries," attorney and agent
> James Ivler said. "The
> district attorney acknowledged this in open court,
> which is why probation
> was accepted by the judge in a felony assault
> charge. It is a bitter pill to
> swallow, but if there [was] a trial, there [was] the
> chance of missing time,
> and if something crazy happens, he's going to jail.
> Ricky was there, there
> was an altercation and a physical touching. He put
> himself in a bad
> situation."
> 
>
http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/cs-0609270217s
> ep27,1,3261822.story?coll=cs-bears-headlines


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