Jourdan Lewis trial starts Monday
No plea deal, lists of witnesses have been compiled.
Jury selection and opening statements expected to happen monday with testimonies expected Tuesday. Lewis' attorney hopes the trial will wrap up by Tuesday.
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2017/07/no_plea_deal_for_…
but my gut says he will not be found guilty.
aka he will be found not guilty
There are several outcomes that could result from him not being found guilty that are not him being found not guilty...
Just saying that him not being found guilty does not necessarily equal him being found not guilty. For example, there could be a hung jury, which seems possible given that the evidence is presumably his word against hers.
My head is spinning!
I'm just predicting he does not get a guilty verdict. Could be a hung jury, case dropped, mistrial, etc.
For his sake I hope he isn't, and not because he's a UM guy.
He must be very confident that he's not guilty if he's rejecting a plea deal. Of course he and this girl are the only ones who really know what happened, so if he truly is innocent he has every right to be confident and to refuse a plea deal. But my point is that without entering a plea, it's my assumption that if he is found guilty (I, also, am not a lawyer), he will face punishment to the fullest extent of the law. As he should.
And at that point, I'm guessing getting cut from the Cowboys would be the least of his problems.
1. He's pretty confident in his case.
2. The prosecuter is not offering a plea deal that is realistically any better for him than a guilty verdict would be (either because the prosecutor thinks his/her case is pretty strong, or because s/he is being a dick, which is not unlikely, unfortunately).
Prosecutors have also been known to do things for political reasons. But maybe you intended that to be included within your second reason.
That counts as part of the "being a dick" reason in my book, when you have a person's life in your hands. (and I work in politics, so I think I've got a decent perspective on it, unfortunately).
They tend to have more than the national average for the population in that particular job.
No matter the outcome JD isn't getting cut, let's just get that out of the way right now. This is the Dallas Cowboys, the same team that signed Greg Hardy, and there is no way in hell they are parting with one of their top draft choices over a misdemeanor. Second of all JD is one of the nicest and most humble kids to come through Michigan, and this charge is completely out of character. Knowing what I know about the gf I think there is a high probability he wins this in court.
Probably true, but I don't think a monkey could lose this case, so the defense attorney will be feeling a lot of pressure.
Don't see how a guilty verdict comes back though.
Had numerous trials that you just could not possibly win. You call those trials a "five-day plea".
Lewis now has that Dallas and Jerry Jones money behind him. It will probably be resolved rather quick.
Given recent events, a prosecutor might reasonably prefer to lose a case than to drop it or offer a lenient plea deal to a high profile athletle.
When a player/alum from your own preferred college football team is in serious legal trouble, there is only one thing to write that will satisfy everyone reading your comment: "I just hope justice is done in this case." It shows you still support the player, but care for the victim as well, and no one can say you're an asshole! I think I will trademark this expression.
Irregardless, I just hope justice is done in this case.
But I agree with everything else you said so I gave you a plus one.
That was intentional... ;-)