Lions rookie sentenced in brawl Posted: Thursday June 26, 2008 07:14AM ET Lions rookie offensive lineman and first-round pick Gosder Cherilus was ordered Wednesday to serve one year of pretrial probation for his role in a Boston bar brawl in which a patron was seriously injured, the Boston Globe reported. Cherilus also was ordered to pay the victim $52,000 toward his medical bills. Cherilus and teammate DeJuan Tribble, stars at Boston College, were celebrating Cherilus' 3rd birthday with teammates at a bar last July when they intervened in a confrontation between a patron, Sean Maney, and a State Police sergeant, Joseph Boike, a part-owner of the place. Maney testified in Boston Municipal Court that Cherilus grabbed him in a two-arm choke hold and dragged him across the room while Boike and Tribble repeatedly punched him, according to the Boston Globe. Maney testified that he and Cherilus slammed into a table, that he lapsed in and out of consciousness, that Cherilus and Tribble kicked him, and that he suffered a spinal injury that required surgery. http://fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/nfl He should be in prision if he did that much damage . If that was one of us we'd be locked up...
gos is a stand up guy, i don't know what happened but from what i have heard that this guy played up this story significantly. I am not denying that he or Tribble were involved but the word is that this guy was the one to blame for this. The guy they were helping out was a cop too
Unless you are disputing the facts that are in the article, you aren't seriously saying that he would be justified in doing what was reported, are you? And while "playing up the story" might be a factor in a civil settlement, it has nothing to do with a judge putting you on pretrial probation in a criminal case. There are good reasons for accepting a pretrial deal even if you feel you are not guilty (the charges will be dismissed if they stay out of trouble), but the fact that the person he was helping is a police officer, and yet they took this deal, doesn't make them look good, since a police officer testifying on their behalf would weaken the victim's case considerably (that can only mean that the cop wasn't going to say things that would help them very much).
I am disputing the facts. I'm not saying they were justified in doing what they allegedly did but rather that it may not have played out how it is actually stated in the article. Being a student at BC, i have heard several other stories from people on campus about what actually happened. These may be just that: stories, but they may also have merit. What the actual truth is, i don;t know. As you said, there are many reasons for him accepting the deal, such as trying to end this now to prevent this from dragging on and dealing for more negative press. I'm not saying he right or wrong here, just providing some extra "information" that the general public might not know
