LOL.
Well, it would be silly to suggest that the sort of legal representative he can afford didn’t have anything to do with it. It also appears that the victim’s family requested leniency, since the accident wasn’t really Stallworth’s fault and “they just wanted to get it over with” - read “got a bigger settlement that way”.
Remember, Vince Neil was half again as drunk (0.17 BAC), was speeding, and his DUI manslaughter accident was entirely his fault (he lost control of his vehicle). He only got 30 days in jail, and five years’ probation. IIRC, that wasn’t even a plea bargain.
I read (don’t know if it’s true or not) that the family urged the prosecutors to charge for a lesser crime so the trial could be over quickly and they could quickly get to the civil trial for their big payday.
The exact same as if I, a lower-middle-class white guy, withe zero “fame-to-my-name” has committted the exact same crime.
It’s not fame, it’s money. Donte Stallworth is not a sports star, he’s a half-assed player who’s bounced from team to team in his career. It’s not like the NFL is pressuring anyone so some mediocre to decent player gets back on the field. He paid the family off in exchange for them influencing the sentence to be lower.
The radio report I heard was different. I heard that part of the agreement on the plea included a settlement for the family (no figures were given and I doubt there will be). A plea deal like this is always easier to get if the family is paid off too, and I heard they were in this case.
ETA: I see you mentioned that in your next post.
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man’s world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
Its a rich man’s world
ABBA- “Money, Money, Money”
Yeah, seriously. Damn judges are always sentencing white men to harsher penalties. :rolleyes:
Disgusting. Both for the mockery of law and the salient greed of the family. Stallworth could at least try to look remorseful and the family could at least try to look anguished.
Stallworth immediately jumped out of the car and called 911, cooperated fully with investigators, and has shown remorse. He also has no prior record.
I agree that the family’s actions don’t speak well of them, but for all you know the guy might have been beating his wife and molesting his daughter.
They did (slightly) for DUI-manslaughter in FL in 1996, anyways. See my earlier link.
Don’t think that was ExTank’s point though.
On re-reading it, I think I see what his point was, which is that everybody should be getting the same sentence, not that Stallworth got off easy because he’s black.
Sorry, ET.
A non white with enough money can buy rich white mans justice. OJ wasted so much money getting off . It just was not fair.
Eh, who cares? The vic is still dead, his family got paid off pretty well I assume and the state doesn’t have to foot the bill to put this scumbag up for the next 5 years. Two things to learn from this:
- Being rich is better than being poor, and 2. If you are going to get run over, hope its a rich guy. :rolleyes:
Let’s all sweep this under the rug now and watch TV…
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/9699510/NFL-sus%20pends-Stallworth-indefinitely-without-pay
He’s suspended pending a sentence.
I hope the Browns can recover some cap space or something.
Your concern for the victim is touching. And no, you don’t get a cap exemption unless he gets placed on the non-football-related UP list.
Oh give me a break. Do I have to post about how terrible it is that someone died? Should I put it in my sig so that every post has a little note that says I care deeply about a victim of a player on a football team I root for?
Oh crap, like 8 more people died in this country to auto accidents in the time it took me to write this post. Oh shit now it’s 9! I have to go mourn for all of them. Oh no 10!
Ah, you’ll just give Eric Steinbach $70 million dollars to be a backup anyway. Might as well donate it to charity or for cleaning up the local waterways so they don’t catch fire.
Keep trying to convince yourself of that, Bungles fan.
When Andre Smith is sitting on the ground at training camp, man titties heaving as he sobs in exhaustion, you’ll wish you hadn’t let Steinbach get away.
Who did you draft with your first round pick?
And Andre Smith’s proof will be on Sundays. Yes, he has a better rack than my wife but have you ever watched this guy play football in the SEC?
Finally, Smith is a tackle and Steinbach is a guard, and frankly, both the guards we have now are better than Steinbach anyway. And apparently Man-Gina thinks so too, since Eric no longer appears to have a starting job. Good thing you signed a guard to all that money!