At the end of the day if my starting QB is in a bar fight I am the coach You are off the team until I let you back on the team. The only fact I need is that your are in the fight. I would not care what the police are doing I would find out the facts based on what my team told me.
could be but at this point Coach is going to have his hand forced to make a call there are 10 seconds to go and no time outs !
Actually for it to be the felony it is not just the act but the injury. That's why it is a felony and not a misdemeanor. So, if the kick didn't cause the broken neck, the kick doesn't result in a felony.
After reading the bar employee's account of the evening, it sounds like JJ was there and there for several hours. He and the other players were behaving themselves. The manager even said JJ got into the DJ booth and played around with the music. Sounds like a good time. As the fight started outside, the manager says he saw JJ standing on the sideline watching, not being involved. So far, so good for JJ. I think what happened, from the video, is that JJ made a crazy mistake and for some reason stepped out of the crowd and just kicked that dude while he was down. That is all we see of him being involved on the video, IF it is indeed him and it is tough to tell. IF that is what he did, it was the absoulte worst move of hislife. You can't have one witness say they saw JJ do it and one witness say they saw him standing on the side not involved because it does not add up and someone is not telling the truth.
According to the legal definitions I'm reading severe pain would qualify it as a felony. So if one of them says ouch it's a felony. http://www.nycourts.gov/cji/2-PenalLaw/120/120-05(6).pdf
Um, what you've got there are jury charges for a felony assault in New York. In Louisiana, broken vertebrae likely would result in 2d degree battery charge. http://www.legis.state.la.us/lss/lss.asp?doc=78445 Your basic point is correct though; severe physical pain can turn a battery into a felony.
