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Why? What else did they allegedly find that they couldn't be bothered charging him with?

I couldn't have scripted that any better had I logged-onto Poland's account and wrote that brilliant response myself. Stupid is as stupid does, but Poland's rewritten the record books.

If he did lose any money/endorsements (and it's hard to prove if that's true or not), it wasn't as a result of keeping quiet; it was for being involved in the incident in the first place (and I blame him for being at the wrong place at the wrong time and failing to avoid hitting the girl). Most people made up their minds about it in the beginning and wouldn't have changed it, period. Even if it had been settled early, people would have been saying "well, he settled before any real evidence surfaced." And had the DA simply offered the plea deal in the beginning, it would have been over within a week or so. Why did he wait so long to offer it and waste resources?

Sorry. I just felt very argumentative today, and Poland just wouldn't get the point and shut up.

They can do what the Bills pioneered, which is tag him and then promise not to tag him again next year if he signs the tender and plays. It's not like Peppers really has much say in the matter, despite what he may think. Just like you think the Patriots would be happy with another 11-5 non-playoff season, the Panthers would be happy with another season being the 2nd seed in the NFC. And I can't imagine the Panthers are ready to lay the blame for that playoff game at Delhomme's feet, seeing as they ran the ball just 15 times at 5.0 YPC, as opposed to almost 32 times a game during the regular season. Not to mention the Cards went to the SB and almost won it. I also can't imagine they'd want to take the cap hit in cutting Delhomme, and then trade away a premier DE and pay Cassel $14M a year when he had a middling year with a great offense.

You imbecile, do you think that DA's plea down felonies (that's what drunk hit and run is, moron) to traffic tickets, just because a suspect was "stonewalling?" To answer for you since you don't have a single neuron in your cranium, no, they don't. They plea down when they have a weaker case than they thought, and want to cut their losses, while offering the defendant the opportunity to cut his/her losses and get the ordeal over with faster. And why didn't the DA offer this plea deal in the beginning? It would have been as simple as "if Lynch admits he was driving, I'll give him a traffic ticket."

Not watching where you're driving and as a result hitting someone constitutes "a reckless disregard of human life or property." As the $100 traffic violation specifies.

Exactly and thank you. I was beginning to think that people were as stupid as Poland.

Semantics, since by "convening" I meant physically assembling people and hearing testimony to conclusion. If the DA was truly interested in getting a hit and run conviction, because "obviously it was hit and run," he wouldn't have settled for a traffic ticket (A TRAFFIC TICKET versus A FELONY) instead.

Um, that's ignorance of the law, like having a loaded weapon in your trunk, not ignorance in general, or specifically in this case, of hitting someone. Hence the reason Lynch wasn't charged with hit and run and instead got a traffic ticket for failing to avoid hitting a pedestrian.

The choice they have is keeping Peppers for the year. And I made a mistake on Brohm. But Delhomme has done far more in the league than Cassel has and has several more good years.

Doh, nevermind.

I'm sure Kevin O'Connell can fail to lead the Patriots to the playoffs just as well as Cassel did.

Because if he knew he hit her and left, it's hit and run. DUH! If you read the articles at the time, an official in the police department said that in the footage, the car kept moving like the driver didn't know the victim was hit. If you have a problem with it, take it up with them and the DA who let him off with a traffic ticket. And at least, it's SOME evidence, versus the non-evidence you have with the "well obviously he was drunk and he knew he hit her!" As I said, the DA didn't believe he knew he hit her. Otherwise he would have convened the grand jury to get a hit and run conviction. He contacted his lawyer 4 hours after the incident, because the Bills' head of security was contacted by the cops, and then he contacted Lynch. Another piece of brilliance by you destroyed because you're either too stupid to remember facts, or too lazy to look them up. As for why he didn't answer his door, I don't know. Maybe he's a heavy sleeper? Maybe he uses a CPAP machine for sleep apnea? What do you suppose he was doing when they were knocking at his door and for the 4 hours between the incident and when he first was contacted by the Bills' head of security?

Why would the Panthers want to get rid of Delhomme, for Cassel? What has Cassel proven in the NFL? And the Panthers drafted Brian Brohm in the 2nd round last year.

"Free Marshawn!"

Since you and your buddy Mr. Weo are a little slow, I'll dumb it down for ya. What I SAID was: "You want to charge him with, what, a felony, even a misdemeanor, because you THINK he was drinking, driving drunk, and knew he hit her, despite no evidence at all to support those claims, and in fact evidence to the contrary?" Do you see the word "knew" I bolded in the "knew he hit her" part? Had I not included "knew" and said "because you THINK...he hit her," then yes, I would have been saying that "he [didn't] hit her." But I didn't do that, did I? Hence "no evidence...to support" and "evidence to the contrary" refer to "[his] kn[o]w[ing] he hit her." Are we clear? Regarding evidence to the contrary, there was footage of the incident. The footage showed that the car slowed down after making the turn, apparently to watch the vic's friend dance across the street, and then proceeded after the friend passes, in the process hitting the vic. The car doesn't slow down like the normal reaction would be after hitting something and hearing a thud. The car also doesn't suddenly accelerate, as in fleeing from a crime scene after realizing he hit someone. I can only surmise that the rubes think that he was so blitzed out of his gourd and his senses so dulled to the point that he couldn't hear or feel or care about anything, yet inexplicably he got home and into bed without crashing his car, with the equally blitzed Steve Johnson riding shotgun (ooops). With no one having witnesses them drinking that night. Beyond that, it was rainy, there was the aforementioned friend dancing (drunk, obviously!) in the street, and the stereo was blasting. All of which support that he didn't see her, didn't hear the sideview mirror hitting her, and thus didn't know he hit her.

With the way these guys have been playing (except Butler, who was a "thug" in college when he almost ended Mathias Kiwanuka's career, and once a thug, always a thug), they'd be better-served exploring those opportunities now.

The AFC team is probably the Dols. They play a 3-4, are in nice warm weather for Jules, and have a lot of cap room.

Probably because (and not to be ungrateful for the link) most non-simple people already know this.

Sigh. No one is disputing that it was his car that hit her or that he was the driver. What I was saying is that there was no evidence that he knew he hit her.

That's because you're a rube. Click the link in this thread to find out why: http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showtopic=82935 And most people talk a good game when it comes to what they or others should/would do, and then fold when it comes to crunch time. That's because there's more to it than "doing what's right" and your duty to god or your country. And keeping silent worked for Lynch, to the tune of getting a $100 traffic ticket for what people were sure was a felonious hit and run. Because when it came down to it, there was no evidence to convict him of anything, and he sure as hell wasn't going to make the DA's case for him.

Speaking of which, is there any windshield crack repair product that works well?

Don't worry. Unions will soon be defunct as salaries reset to lower levels and union bosses are eliminated from the equation.

It's not about what's "obvious," it's about what you can prove through evidence. No one saw him drinking or admitted to serving him drinks. Given his history of bringing his own alcohol into bars, you'd think that bar owners/wait staff would be vigilant about that happening again because they can lose their liquor license.