[CBFF] Pacman suspended FOR THE SEASON; Henry gets 8

[Tom Shannon]

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> On 11.04.07 11:56 AM, "Tom Shannon" <tshanno at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, this is the really damaging thing.  I would consider bashing
> some
> > woman's head in on a stage worse than anything Johnson did.
> 
> I would, too, but until Jones has actually been charged with this
> crime,
> isn't it reasonable to maintain some presumption of innocence?  I mean,
> people do things everyday and are not caught.  But how certain can the
> league be of him doing something like that if the criminal justice
> system is
> not (or at least not yet)?
> 
> Or am I missing something here?

I'm fairly sure that at least some of the facts are clear.  Having said
that, I'm not entirely sure that once charges are filed in the cases like
the one in Vegas, things might not get worse for Jones.  In other words, he
might well already be getting punished with the presumption of innocence in
those cases and based upon only the established facts in things like police
reports.

The other problem might well be that Jones didn't show much remorse in his
interview with the commissioner.  He didn't seem to show a great deal of
sincere remorse in media interviews afterwards.  This interview with the
commissioner apparently carries at least some weight.

Tom S.