04/16/24
September 09, 2005
College basketball player charged with assult: Player pleads "no contest" assult charge for something that happened to a game.
posted by daddisamm to basketball at 09:07 AM - 8 comments
I don't think that playing a game gives you free license to intentionally assault people. It would be hard to prove intent in a contact sport, so prosecutions are rare, which seems like the right balance to me.
posted by rcade at 11:06 AM on September 09, 2005
I hope it makes players think before they play dirty. Sure some are accidents, but I don't know how many I have seen that were in intentional.
posted by tina at 11:24 AM on September 09, 2005
Remember that dude from Temple who took Chaney's order to "thug it up" or something like that? Injured the guy from St. Joe's. If this type of assault it illegal, who's to blame? The player? Or Chaney, who orderded the code red.
posted by mayerkyl at 12:24 PM on September 09, 2005
The part that is bullshit is: I very seriously doubt that a Rapid City player would have been prosecuted for an assault or even indicted by a Rapid City grand jury if the player had committed the exact same act against a Valley City player in Rapid City. So now the visiting teams face prosecution in the home team's jurisdiction. But, its possible that a player from Rapid City could get prosecuted for a foul like that in Valley City, ND, if it had happened there. From a criminal law stand point, I don't like the home-court (court of law, not basketball court) double standard that is getting applied.
posted by chris2sy at 12:54 PM on September 09, 2005
This is crazy. The elbow was an intentional foul nothing more. This happens everyday in basketball. Say your team is down by one point with 10 seconds left in the game. Do you A. Let the other team run the clock out, or B. Foul the other team to get the ball back, and hope the home town Judge does not charge you with assult.
posted by meat head at 04:21 PM on September 09, 2005
Do you A. Let the other team run the clock out, or B. Foul the other team to get the ball back, and hope the home town Judge does not charge you with assult. I'd pick C. That would be committing an intentional but not laceration-inducing or concussing-bringing foul. If you can't get the clock stopped without doing serious harm to the opponent, you probably shouldn't be on the court.
posted by wfrazerjr at 06:21 PM on September 09, 2005
It was a very hard foul. The people who saw it said it looked really bad--"looked criminal"
posted by daddisamm at 05:03 AM on September 10, 2005
Wow...I wonder if Karl Malone is grandfathered under the law? That guy threw elbows like Kerry Collins threw picks.