In case you have forgetten, that is not my job or yours to do, much less the media. It is the job of the lawyers involved and the courts, you know the people who look over all the facts before making a final decision. Are you trying to tell me that you know all the facts and are better suited for making a final decision then them
Because you clearly have made YOUR final decision already.
Here is some of the information that I have read, including information from the criminal complaint:
By Ihosvani Rodriguez
Miami Bureau
Posted June 25 2005
Washington Redskins safety and former University of Miami All-American Sean Taylor was charged Friday with aggravated assault with a firearm for his role in a confrontation earlier this month over a pair of stolen all-terrain vehicles.
Taylor, 22, was not present during the hearing when prosecutors announced the charges. Taylor's attorney said he mailed the court a "not guilty" plea on the player's behalf.
Authorities say that on June 1, Taylor pointed a weapon toward a group of men in South Miami-Dade and accused them of stealing his ATVs. During a second confrontation that evening, Taylor took a swing at one of the men, authorities said.
Taylor, son of Florida City Police Chief Pedro Taylor, faces a mandatory minimum prison sentence of three years if convicted and a maximum term of 16 years. Taylor also is charged with a misdemeanor count of simple battery.
Team officials, Taylor's father and agent Drew Rosenhaus declined comment.
According to an arrest affidavit, Taylor and a friend drove to a home in Miami-Dade's West Perrine neighborhood and confronted two men standing outside. Taylor pointed the gun at the men and demanded to know where the ATVs were and then drove away without firing a shot.
But he returned about 10 minutes later with a larger group of friends and a street brawl broke out. Taylor tried to punch one man but missed, said police. He then grabbed the man, Ryan Hill, 21, and began fighting with him, police said. One of Taylor's companions, Charles Caughman, chased another man with a baseball bat, police said.
Caughman faces one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a felony.
But you're right. It could all be a figment of someone's imagination.
Despite my hatred of Daniel Snyder, and my firm belief that the team is under the 'Curse of Jack Kent Cooke', this up-til-now quiet offseason, and some of it's components, like getting SOMETHING for that malcontent Coles, and letting a division rival overpay for one year wonder Pierce, has me quietly optomistic about the direction this organization may be headed.Still scratching my head about Jason Campbell, as I'm sure they could have traded down and drafted him later, and maybe added some other picks, or they could have drafted Charlie Frye and then traded him to the Browns, but that's water under the bridge at this point. I was hoping they'd go Roddy White or Marlin Jackson with that pick, personally, but they wound up with what I feel is a solid draft. I felt Rodgers was the top CB coming out, and was shocked they actually made the right decision there, so I pretty much expected them to screw the pooch with the second pick, and it wasn't as much of a letdown as it could have been. Outside of that, they added bodies on ST, picked up a LB in McCune that most NFL personnel folks felt was a steal in the 5th, and Manuel White has made a seamless transition to HBack in the offseason camps that has the team absolutely beaming. More short range weapons for Ramsey, which is nice. I still hold fast to my statement that if David Patten is one of our starting WR come September, we're headed back to 6-10...How this situation is handled is going to tell pretty much everyone keeping tabs on the 'skins plenty about the organization...Don't sweat Prime, he's not knocking Taylor - he's just responding like I'd expect any passionate fan to do - applauding something negative going on with the organization he hates the most.
not sure how this latest info fits in with gibbs statement... i forget if he said taylor has the team's permission to stay away until his legal problems are over, or how he characterized it. if taylor figures in their plans this season, & i am sure he does if he doesn't go to prison, it is hard to imagine the team being OK with him missing all of training camp & pre-season. that said, he is such a superior physical specimen, if anybody could get away with it, he could. and if DC robinson is planning on incorportaing changes, he could still communicate it to taylor... he could get "mental" reps via a computer?i think everybody is clear on this, but IF he is convicted on the charges & there is no plea bargain (doesn't sound like it as he is entering a not guilty plea), he supposedly serves no less than three years... even there, i am not sure about possibility of parole, but i think what i have read suggested FL is not a good state to get popped for brandishing a handgun... not sure if the MINIMUM connotes parole is not an option, or just that that is the minimum SENTENCE, but possibly this could differ from the actual time served. i think the former.
