5 More Spartans arraigned, attorney formally uses "but Juwannn" defense.

Submitted by GoBlue96 on December 2nd, 2022 at 1:17 PM

Five Michigan State players were arraigned Friday on misdemeanor assault charges stemming from an altercation in the Michigan Stadium tunnel following the Michigan-Michigan State game in late October.

The players, redshirt sophomore Itayvion Brown, junior Angelo Grose, redshirt junior Justin White, senior Brandon Wright and freshman Zion Young all received $10,000 personal-recognizance bonds, and are scheduled to appear for a pretrial Dec. 15 before Karen Quinlan Valvo, chief judge of the 15th District Court in Ann Arbor.

The players and their lawyers appeared virtually before Judge Tamara Garwood of 15th Judicial District Court.

Garwood ordered that the players could have contact with each other only for football purposes. Outside of football purposes, they must have their lawyers present. Garwood also ordered that the players have no contact with the Michigan football team, Michigan football coaches or the University of Michigan, an order that didn't sit well with defense lawyers, calling it essentially a ban from visiting Ann Arbor.

"I don't remember coach Juwan Howard being prevented from contacting the University of Wisconsin. I'm just a little troubled by the heavy-handedness of it, Judge. But that is your right."

Howard, Michigan's basketball coach, was suspended for the final five games of last regular season following an incident in which he slapped a Wisconsin coach following a game in Madison.

Howard did not face legal charges.

"Juwan Howard did not come in front of me," Garwood said in response to Fink. "Had he come in front of me, had that happened here and he was in front of me, he likely would've ended up with similar conditions."

 

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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state-university/2022/12/02/michigan-state-spartans-football-players-arraigned-michigan-tunnel/69695631007/

 

 

Mr. Robot

December 2nd, 2022 at 4:40 PM ^

My takeaway in light of the tunnel incident and now this is that I have seriously underestimated just how bad of an institution and culture MSU is from top to bottom. If I reflect strongly on it I suppose I should have known all along, but the way this just brought almost all of it to bear all at once.

It's clear to me now I need to avoid engaging with anyone affiliated with MSU that I do not know very well already. An embarrassingly large number, dare I even speculate the large majority, are deranged well beyond the point of meaningful, rational interactions. I'm fortunate not to have direct interactions with the kinds of "people" they have on the radio, on the message boards, and coaching their teams, because I honestly don't know what I'd even say if someone came at me with the lunatic nonsense we've been seeing from them.

What do you even say to someone who seriously suggests that some big conspiracy is the reason why a Wisconsin prosecutor didn't charge Juwan, never mind how completely different the situation, location, and context is from either of the other two? It's not even worth coming up with something clever because they'll probably just throw a punch at me and plead the same kind of defense their goon lawyers are now. It's just not worth it. I just wish more of them would leave the state and more of our alumni would start sticking around because I am left to wonder how much better we could make Michigan without them. It's safe to assume most of them are still around and I cringe to think what they are capable of in other parts of their lives that can have a collective negative effect on all of us.

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