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Lynch will plead guilty to an unspecified charge


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BUFFALO — Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark says Buffalo Bills running back Marshawn Lynch will plead guilty next week to an unspecified charge stemming from the hit-and-run accident involving his SUV.

 

Clark says the plea is based on the fact Lynch was driving, but he declined to detail the charge. The tentative deal was announced Friday after days of negotiations between prosecutors and lawyers for Lynch and the Bills.

 

Well that answers you "character concerns" question.

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Why didn't they just treat this as if you had hit a pedestrian and fled....me thinks your employer would not be at the table negotiating with the DA...and the Bills interest should not even be relevant here.....what a disgrace to the legal system.

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Why didn't they just treat this as if you had hit a pedestrian and fled....me thinks your employer would not be at the table negotiating with the DA...and the Bills interest should not even be relevant here.....what a disgrace to the legal system.

 

On the surface I will agree with you, but if more information comes to light I may change my mind.

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Why didn't they just treat this as if you had hit a pedestrian and fled....me thinks your employer would not be at the table negotiating with the DA...and the Bills interest should not even be relevant here.....what a disgrace to the legal system.

 

Agreed... total bullsh*t.

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On the surface I will agree with you, but if more information comes to light I may change my mind.

 

 

The point is probably details will be secret. I doubt we know much more which would also be an insult to the system.

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What do you guys think of the other players that know what happened (I believe there are 3 others invovled including rookie James Hardy)? Are they honorable for not ratting out their boy, or are they dishonorbale for not coming forward to aid the investigation?

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What do you guys think of the other players that know what happened (I believe there are 3 others invovled including rookie James Hardy)? Are they honorable for not ratting out their boy, or are they dishonorbale for not coming forward to aid the investigation?

 

I go with the second position. Further, I would think they should also be brought up on charges for failure to report an accident involving bodily injury. I don't know the exact words, but you can get charged with something like this. They are not equally disgraceful as Lynch...but are a notch maybe two below.

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what a disgrace to the legal system.

 

His ass should be suspended.

 

The team should discipline him too.

 

I have not seen any news that this plea does not involve jail time, that he's not getting suspended, or that the team is not disciplining him.

 

I think you guys are making the false assumption that "plea agreement" means "he's walking away from this". The plea agreement could be that he serves a year in jail starting immediately so that he can join offseason workouts in 2009.

 

Patience.

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D.A.: Bills' Lynch to plead guilty to accident-related charge

 

Associated Press

 

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills running back Marshawn Lynch is expected to plead guilty next week to an unspecified charge stemming from a hit-and-run accident involving his SUV, Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark said Friday.

Marshawn Lynch, RB

Buffalo Bills

 

2007 Statistics:

Carries: 280

Yards: 1,115

Touchdowns: 7

 

Clark declined to detail the charge but said a tentative plea agreement assumes Lynch was driving his 2008 Porsche Cayenne when it hit a woman crossing a Buffalo intersection early May 31, leaving the victim with a bruised hip and in need of stitches.

 

There was one other person in the SUV at the time, Clark said. He would not say who it was.

 

The announcement of an "agreement in principle" between lawyers came as a grand jury was scheduled to begin hearing testimony in the case. Several Bills players and front-office employees were subpoenaed by investigators frustrated by Lynch's refusal to speak with them.

 

The prosecutor said he does not fault Lynch for exercising his right to stay silent, but acknowledged that his office and the Buffalo police could have used the nearly three weeks spent on the headline-grabbing Lynch case on more serious crimes.

 

"This, at its worst, is a vehicle and traffic misdemeanor. In the hierarchy of criminal conduct, this is certainly in the bottom third," he said.

 

Lynch, 22, was the Bills' first-round draft pick in 2007. His lawyer, Michael Caffery, did not immediately respond to Clark's announcement Friday. Earlier in the day he said by phone he was working toward a resolution. A message left with the player's agent was not immediately returned.

 

Clark said Lynch, who left town after a Bills minicamp last week, is expected to appear in a Buffalo courtroom in the middle of next week.

 

"He is going to be back here. He is going to be in Buffalo. He is going to confront the matter directly. He's going to do whatever he has to do to resolve it and then he's going to make a statement," he said.

 

Although the accident has been under investigation since the end of May, plea negotiations began moving quickly forward late last week after Buffalo Bills team lawyers got involved, according to Clark. Bills chief operating officer Russ Brandon was among those served with a subpoena.

 

Bills spokesman Scott Berchtold said the organization was aware of Clark's comments, "but will maintain our position that we will not comment until the process has been fully completed."

 

Clark said there was no reason to believe the delay in resolving the case affected the outcome.

 

"I think that the way this will be resolved will be in line with the way most of these cases are resolved and probably very much in line with the way it might have been resolved had all of this come together sooner," he said.

 

Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press

 

 

 

Does anyone see him being suspended by the league if it winds up being just a misdemeanor? From my selfish FF point of view I could really use him this year :wacko:

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I think he does not get suspended, but another mess up of any kind will lead to missing some games. A misdemeanor won't justify punsihment for a first time offender. Now if this were Pacman or Moss...

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What do you guys think of the other players that know what happened (I believe there are 3 others invovled including rookie James Hardy)? Are they honorable for not ratting out their boy, or are they dishonorbale for not coming forward to aid the investigation?

This is the one time that I hope Goodell's god complex reigns with an iron fist. Suspend Lynch for at least the season, and either heavily fine or suspend the other guys... What's worse, cheating or hitting someone with your car and fleeing the scene. If the players are not fined heavily, then the team should have something come down on them for having these pieces of crap on their roster.

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This is the one time that I hope Goodell's god complex reigns with an iron fist. Suspend Lynch for at least the season, and either heavily fine or suspend the other guys... What's worse, cheating or hitting someone with your car and fleeing the scene. If the players are not fined heavily, then the team should have something come down on them for having these pieces of crap on their roster.

 

:wacko: I don't know about all that, selfish interests aside.

 

Damn bro, you're really angry about this, I guess you won't be drafting Lynch this year then.

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:wacko: I don't know about all that, selfish interests aside.

 

Damn bro, you're really angry about this, I guess you won't be drafting Lynch this year then.

He's a piece of garbage. He probably was drunk, got behind the wheel, hit another human being, fled the scene, and didn't come forward on his own. The guy fails as a human all together. I also look to how hard Goodell has come down on Chris Henry, Odell Thurman, BB and the Patriots organization... If ever there was a time to crack down on someone, do it to this scum. Goodell also said that he would start potentially taking draft picks away from teams that have players do stupid crap like this.

I also think it's trash that he's getting off this easy with the law.

And as far as drafting goes, I don't think he's near where his ADP is.

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If you were a world class <whatever> working at a billion dollar company, yeah, your employer would be at the table.

 

I'm not saying it's right, just that this isn't limited to pro sports.

Yeah, I don't get the problem with the Bills assisting with their attorneys. They have a very big interest here & being a high profile, high paid player comes with it's perks up to & including very good legal representation. It's that way with just about any high level job with a big corporation.

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This is the one time that I hope Goodell's god complex reigns with an iron fist. Suspend Lynch for at least the season, and either heavily fine or suspend the other guys... What's worse, cheating or hitting someone with your car and fleeing the scene. If the players are not fined heavily, then the team should have something come down on them for having these pieces of crap on their roster.

 

 

Maybe send them to Guantanamo. :wacko: They'd get these guys to talk.

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If he'd stopped and seen if she were alright, he'd be out $2500 for a ED visit and $50,000 for an apology payment ... but running off may cost him a season and a $1 million in a civil suit ... I thought they taught them better at Cal -- he sounds more like a Miami Hurricane ...

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If he'd stopped and seen if she were alright, he'd be out $2500 for a ED visit and $50,000 for an apology payment ... but running off may cost him a season and a $1 million in a civil suit ... I thought they taught them better at Cal -- he sounds more like a Miami Hurricane ...

 

But if he was drunk, and he got home and sobered up, he saved himself multiple felonies.

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