Will he never learn? http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100726/NEWS010702/7270335/Basketball-star-spared-jail-for-DUI
Is that his only legal problem in the last decade? He's no problem. After this many years, they should drop the registration stuff.
That penalty is weak for drunk driving. No breathalizer in his car, no weekend jail time? What would happen if that was in Oregon? When I moved down to AZ 14 years ago I know that AZ was just starting to put harsher penalties in place, but that was just bringing them upto where Oregon was that many years ago.
He avoided jail for rape, wife beating, now drunk driving? Didn't he say he had quit drinking and found Jesus? Having lost a family member to a drunk driver I don't consider it "nothing".
These experts on Ohio law can answer this. What is the usual penalty in Ohio, the one that got reduced?
I agree, but as I said Patterson said he had "found Jesus" and stopped drinking. That the 2 were related. Obviously does not square with recent events.
as I understood it, his spousal abuse charge (which was dropped) was from him putting his wife in the hall closet after she wouldn't stop hitting him. Her cell was in the closet and she called the police... I think they're still together. If this is true do you really think he should have gone to jail or be referred to as a wife beater? I fully agree with you here as drunk drivers have impacted my life too. I don't understand why it's treated as lightly as it is here and in society in general and wish he'd have to spend some sobering time in jail. Drunk drivers threaten the lives of the general public, it's no joke STOMP
Interesting job of character assassination. Do you know the circumstances of the rape? It's not he's he was roaming the streets.
Oh, so rape is OK if it's inside? News flash: It's not character assassination if it's true. And speaking of Whoppie Goldberg, whom I usually like, I found the following:
The circumstances are that he told his maid to give him oral sex, standing in his kitchen. The maid, who was black and his age (I think he was 25 and she was 24, unlike Kobe, where it was a teen 5 years younger and of opposite race, and unlike Ruben, Kobe held her and there was penetration), waited a week before reporting it, convinced by a friend. Meanwhile, she acted to his wife as if nothing had happened. She continued coming to work at his house every day whether his wife was there or she was alone with him, both before she reported it and after. Only when the wife fired her did she stop coming to his house, As in all sex cases, jail is the least of the punishments. The legal system knows this and doesn't worry about the actual prison term, but ignorants complain about the exact number of years. Ruben avoided jail, but he stopped being a Sonic (where he was the best player and spark plug, in my opinion--consensus was 2nd best), was signed as a Blazer by Whitsitt in a smart move for less than his value, never got more contracts of any size, and thus lost millions of dollars. His humiliation will continue all his life. This Cincinnati article of a routine DUI would never have seen print if not for his famed lifelong sex offender status, which hasn't ended a decade later and never will. Interesting that certain people whose agenda is supposedly to simply defend women, and not just to join the news media in pushing the negative side of sex, haven't joined me in this thread. What a surprise that they haven't... http://sportstwo.com/threads/163057-Police-Tasered-an-86-year-old-disabled-grandma
