plead - Bad Sporters https://www.badsporters.com News Blogging About Athletes Being Caught Up Wed, 03 Jun 2020 18:41:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Deandre Baker and Quinton Dunbar plead not guilty to armed robbery charges https://www.badsporters.com/2020/06/03/deandre-baker-and-quinton-dunbar-plead-not-guilty-to-armed-robbery-charges/ https://www.badsporters.com/2020/06/03/deandre-baker-and-quinton-dunbar-plead-not-guilty-to-armed-robbery-charges/#respond Wed, 03 Jun 2020 18:41:21 +0000 https://badsporters.com/?p=6925 Baker, a 22-year-old cornerback for the New York Giants, pleaded not guilty on Monday to four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, as well as to four counts of armed robbery. He and Dunbar, a 27-year-old cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks, turned themselves in to authorities Saturday and were released from jail Sunday after […]

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Baker, a 22-year-old cornerback for the New York Giants, pleaded not guilty on Monday to four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, as well as to four counts of armed robbery. He and Dunbar, a 27-year-old cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks, turned themselves in to authorities Saturday and were released from jail Sunday after posting bond.

An attorney for Dunbar, Michael Grieco, said Friday that he had affidavits from the same five witnesses whose accounts formed the basis for the arrest warrants. The witnesses recanted their testimonies against Dunbar in the affidavits, according to Grieco.

At a court hearing Sunday, a Broward County prosecutor called the sudden recantations “suspect” and wondered whether the witnesses had been pressured or bribed into changing their stories. Grieco told the Seattle Times that the witnesses came to him and signed the new affidavits “in the presence of a notary.”

“This was not some back alley,” the attorney said. “This was in my office.”

A lawyer for Baker, Brandon Cohen, said Friday on Instagram that he, too, was in possession of “affidavits from several witnesses that dispute the allegations and exculpate our client.” Patrick Patel, another member of his legal team, indicated that those affidavits may be from different people than the original witnesses cited by Miramar police.

“The victims have already recanted against Dunbar, and I wasn’t comfortable going to these victims and getting them to sign papers because they’re already waffling and making up stories,” Patel said Monday to the New York Post.

The arrest warrants said that Baker pulled out a semiautomatic firearm and directed Dunbar and the masked man to take money and valuables from some attendees of the party. Baker also was accused of telling the masked man to shoot someone who had just walked into the Miramar residence, but the man did not. There were conflicting accounts of whether Dunbar was also armed.

Dunbar, Baker and the other man were alleged to have left in three separate cars — a Mercedes-Benz, a BMW and a Lamborghini — that were described as having been parked in a manner that might facilitate a quick escape. That gave witnesses the impression, per the original affidavit, that the robbery was planned ahead of time.

Patel said Baker’s legal team was working on acquiring video that would show the Giants player getting into the passenger seat of his car as a designated driver waited in line with other vehicles to pass through a security checkpoint at the gated community in which the party took pace.

In addition, Patel told the New York Post that far from being part of any dice game or other form of gambling that sparked the robbery, as witnesses had alleged, Baker was playing the “Madden” NFL video game while sitting in another room.

“He doesn’t have anything to do with the ruckus. He didn’t even see it,” Patel said of Baker. “The only thing he sees is out of the corner of his eye a table getting flipped over and everybody running, screaming and yelling. And he’s out. Thank God he bounced.’’

Grieco said Monday (via SI.com) that Dunbar was not even at the residence when the alleged robbery took place.

“I can’t speak to whether or not something happened inside the house,” the attorney said. “I can tell you Mr. Dunbar wasn’t there at the time, if it occurred at all.”

Dunbar, who was traded to Seattle in March from the Washington Redskins for a fifth-round pick, apologized Sunday via social media (per Pro Football Talk) for “any unnecessary distractions that these allegations against me may have caused.”

“In addition,” Dunbar reportedly wrote, “I am very grateful to be apart of a team that supports one another and uphold the credibility of each of its members through adverse situations. Moving forward, this entire situation has taught me how to not associate myself with environments that may mischaracterize my values and who I am.”

Lawyers for both Baker and Dunbar have asked for jury trials, but both have asserted they expect all charges to eventually be dropped. According to NJ.com, future court hearings in the two cases have yet to be scheduled.

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2 former Ohio St. players plead not guilty to rape https://www.badsporters.com/2020/04/06/2-former-ohio-st-players-plead-not-guilty-to-rape/ https://www.badsporters.com/2020/04/06/2-former-ohio-st-players-plead-not-guilty-to-rape/#respond Mon, 06 Apr 2020 06:38:27 +0000 https://badsporters.com/?p=5330 Former Ohio State football players Amir Riep and Jahsen Wint entered not guilty pleas to rape and kidnapping charges on Friday. Riep posted a $100,000 surety bond and Wint posted a $75,000 bond during a hearing at Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in Columbus. A 19-year-old woman told police she was hanging out with […]

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Former Ohio State football players Amir Riep and Jahsen Wint entered not guilty pleas to rape and kidnapping charges on Friday.

Riep posted a $100,000 surety bond and Wint posted a $75,000 bond during a hearing at Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in Columbus.

A 19-year-old woman told police she was hanging out with Riep at the apartment he shares with Wint on Feb. 4 when they began to engage in consensual sex, according to an affidavit. The woman stopped and told Riep she didn’t want to continue.

Wint then entered the room and asked if he could join. Wint allegedly grabbed the woman by her neck and raped her, she said in the affidavit. Riep held the woman down with his body while Wint forced oral sex, the affidavit stated. The woman pushed Wint away, according to the affidavit, but he again forced her to have oral sex.

They stopped after several minutes, and Riep, while laughing at the woman, told her she needed to say on video that what happened was consensual, according to the affidavit. Riep then told the woman she needed to shower before driving her back to her home.

Riep and Wint were charged last month with two counts of rape and one count of kidnapping, which are first-degree felonies.

Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day dismissed Riep and Wint from the team a day after their arrest. They are still enrolled at Ohio State, a university spokesperson told Cleveland.com.

If convicted, the players could be sentenced up to 33 years in prison and would have to register as sex offenders.

Riep appeared in 37 games for Ohio State. Wint appeared in 35 games. Riep was expected to compete for a starting cornerback job after the departures of Damon Arnette and Jeff Okudah. Wint, who got more playing time in 2018 than last season, would have been in the mix at strong safety.

Information from ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg and The Associated Press was used in this report.

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Wheaton College player charged in hazing incident expected to plead guilty Thursday https://www.badsporters.com/2018/03/22/wheaton-college-player-charged-in-hazing-incident-expected-to-plead-guilty-thursday/ https://www.badsporters.com/2018/03/22/wheaton-college-player-charged-in-hazing-incident-expected-to-plead-guilty-thursday/#respond Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:12:58 +0000 http://www.badsporters.com/?p=3087 WHEATON, Ill. (WLS) — A former Wheaton College football player charged in the team’s hazing scandal will be back to court Thursday. Noah Spielman entered a plea of not guilty when he was charged, but he is set to reverse that. Prosecutors have not released the details of the plea deal. Spielman is the son […]

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WHEATON, Ill. (WLS) —

A former Wheaton College football player charged in the team’s hazing scandal will be back to court Thursday.

Noah Spielman entered a plea of not guilty when he was charged, but he is set to reverse that. Prosecutors have not released the details of the plea deal.

Spielman is the son of former Ohio State and all-pro linebacker Chris Spielman. He and four other Wheaton College football players were charged last fall with aggravated battery, mob action and unlawful restraint in connection to a hazing scandal in 2016.

Neither Spielman nor prosecutors have been specific about what charge or charges are part of this plea deal.

A student who has identified himself as Charles Nagy says the players beat and bound him in his dorm room, then took him to a baseball field, leaving him there partially clothed.

Nagy filed a lawsuit last week against the players and school. He says he had to have surgery from some of his injuries. He also withdrew from the school.

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Bixby Students Charged With Rape Plead Not Guilty https://www.badsporters.com/2018/03/08/bixby-students-charged-with-rape-plead-not-guilty-2/ https://www.badsporters.com/2018/03/08/bixby-students-charged-with-rape-plead-not-guilty-2/#respond Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:33:49 +0000 http://www.badsporters.com/?p=2713 BIXBY, Oklahoma - One day earlier than their scheduled court appearance, the four Bixby football players charged with rape pleaded not guilty. Their next court date is scheduled for April 17, 2018. The four students – 17-year old Samuel Lakin, 16-year old Joe Wood, 17-year old William Thomas and 17-year old Colton Cable – were […]

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One day earlier than their scheduled court appearance, the four Bixby football players charged with rape pleaded not guilty.

Their next court date is scheduled for April 17, 2018.

The four students – 17-year old Samuel Lakin, 16-year old Joe Wood, 17-year old William Thomas and 17-year old Colton Cable – were charged with one count of rape by instrumentation.

3/1/2018 Related Story: Charges Filed In Bixby High School Football Rape Investigation

3/2/2018 Related Story: Four Teens Charged In Bixby Sexual Assault Booked Into Jail

According to court documents previously filed in the case, the four students admitted to participating in the sexual assault that happened at the home of former superintendent Kyle Wood’s house on September 27, 2017. A fifth student admitted to recording it on video and sharing it with other high-school-aged people.

The documents say each student also identified the other student involved in the incident.

An affidavit says this investigation is looking into the sexual assault, whether the school reported it in a timely manner to authorities and if anyone tried to prevent a police investigation.

An affidavit says the victim was upstairs at Wood’s home when he was held down by other football players and sexually assaulted.

Attorneys for four Bixby football players charged with rape said no crime was committed.

The attorneys said the boys shouldn’t be charged with rape because it wasn’t a rape, just part of a prankish, roughhousing culture on the football team that may have been going on for decades.

3/2/2018 Related Story: Behavior In Bixby Rape Case Was ‘Roughhousing’ Not Criminal, Attorneys Say

The attorneys for the four charged said this incident had possibly been going on for decades on the football team and they believe law enforcement and the media skewed the facts in the case.

Last week, News On 6 learned a 14-year-old boy reported a sexual assault that happened before the September incident at the former superintendent’s home. Sources said the boy reported two suspects were involved and one of them was also involved in the September case.

3/1/2018 Related Story: Sources: Second Bixby Student Reports Sexual Assault Involving Football Player

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation confirmed it was looking into the case.

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One day earlier than their scheduled court appearance, the four Bixby football players charged with rape pleaded not guilty.

Their next court date is scheduled for April 17, 2018.

The four students – 17-year old Samuel Lakin, 16-year old Joe Wood, 17-year old William Thomas and 17-year old Colton Cable – were charged with one count of rape by instrumentation.

3/1/2018 Related Story: Charges Filed In Bixby High School Football Rape Investigation

3/2/2018 Related Story: Four Teens Charged In Bixby Sexual Assault Booked Into Jail

According to court documents previously filed in the case, the four students admitted to participating in the sexual assault that happened at the home of former superintendent Kyle Wood’s house on September 27, 2017. A fifth student admitted to recording it on video and sharing it with other high-school-aged people.

The documents say each student also identified the other student involved in the incident.

An affidavit says this investigation is looking into the sexual assault, whether the school reported it in a timely manner to authorities and if anyone tried to prevent a police investigation.

An affidavit says the victim was upstairs at Wood’s home when he was held down by other football players and sexually assaulted.

Attorneys for four Bixby football players charged with rape said no crime was committed.

The attorneys said the boys shouldn’t be charged with rape because it wasn’t a rape, just part of a prankish, roughhousing culture on the football team that may have been going on for decades.

3/2/2018 Related Story: Behavior In Bixby Rape Case Was ‘Roughhousing’ Not Criminal, Attorneys Say

The attorneys for the four charged said this incident had possibly been going on for decades on the football team and they believe law enforcement and the media skewed the facts in the case.

Last week, News On 6 learned a 14-year-old boy reported a sexual assault that happened before the September incident at the former superintendent’s home. Sources said the boy reported two suspects were involved and one of them was also involved in the September case.

3/1/2018 Related Story: Sources: Second Bixby Student Reports Sexual Assault Involving Football Player

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation confirmed it was looking into the case.

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Irvin Mayfield, business partner plead not guilty to fraud, money laundering charges https://www.badsporters.com/2018/01/04/irvin-mayfield-business-partner-plead-not-guilty-to-fraud-money-laundering-charges/ https://www.badsporters.com/2018/01/04/irvin-mayfield-business-partner-plead-not-guilty-to-fraud-money-laundering-charges/#respond Thu, 04 Jan 2018 20:36:51 +0000 http://www.badsporters.com/?p=1253 New Orleans trumpet player Irvin Mayfield pleaded not guilty Thursday (Jan. 4) to federal charges stemming from allegations that he took money from New Orleans Public Library to enrich himself and a nonprofit he ran. Mayfield, who has enjoyed widespread critical and popular success as a jazz musician, now faces 19 criminal charges. They include one count of […]

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New Orleans trumpet player Irvin Mayfield pleaded not guilty Thursday (Jan. 4) to federal charges stemming from allegations that he took money from New Orleans Public Library to enrich himself and a nonprofit he ran.

Mayfield, who has enjoyed widespread critical and popular success as a jazz musician, now faces 19 criminal charges. They include one count of conspiracy, four counts of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, 11 counts of money laundering, one count of conspiring to commit money laundering and one count of obstruction of justice.

He pleaded not guilty to each and every count Thursday at U.S. District Court in New Orleans, in his first court appearance since being indicted.

Mayfield’s longtime artistic partner, Ronald Markham, is also a co-defendant in the federal case and faces 18 charges. He likewise pleaded not guilty Thursday.

Mayfield and Markham were both slapped with a federal indictment last month, alleging they secured a host of perks through library foundation fund transfers. Among numerous instances of cushy spending, the indictment alleges the pair spent tens of thousands of dollars for New York City hotel rooms, $23,000 on a Saks Fifth Avenue spending spree and that Mayfield bought a gold-plated trumpet for $15,000.

A trial has been set for March 12.

Magistrate Judge Daniel E. Knowles found Mayfield to be indigent, noting that the musician makes a little north of $800 a month. He and Markham were both permitted to remain free on $25,000 bond, but were required to surrender their passports and restrict their movements to monitored domestic travel.

Both men face maximum 20-year prison sentences on several on the charges of convicted. Each of the 11 money laundering charges carries a maximum 10-year sentence.

Roundly hailed as New Orleans’ cultural emissary after Hurricane Katrina, the Grammy Award-winning Mayfield became embroiled in scandal following a May 2015 report by WWL-TV, which catalogued allegations that the trumpeter funneled money away from the city’s public library system and into his own nonprofit group between 2012 and 2013. Those allegations are reiterated in last month’s federal indictment.

According to the indictment, Mayfield allegedly steered more than $1 million over the two-year period from the library’s fundraising foundation to the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, a nonprofit he founded in 2002, to help pay for $10 million in costs for the New Orleans Jazz Market in Central City. At that time, Mayfield served on the library foundation’s board and granted broad executive powers to himself, including over contracts, WWL reported.

Mayfield promptly resigned from the library foundation’s board. In May 2016, the jazz orchestra agreed to pay back the roughly $1.1 million it had received, via a five-year repayment plan and in-kind services such as concerts to benefit the library system. The following month, Mayfield resigned as the orchestra’s artistic director.

The indictment also alleges Mayfield spent more than $130,000 in library donations on travel expenses for trips taken during his library foundation tenure as well as salaries for himself and Markham. The foundation has said a $18,000 hotel bill Mayfield racked up in New York and charged to the foundation had nothing to do with library business.

In late October, Mayfield was booted from a seven-year residency at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street. Dubbed Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, the residency aimed to bring “jazz back to Bourbon Street” with nightly performances hosting the city’s premier musicians, including Mayfield himself.

The hotel’s general manager, Alfred Groos, at the time skirted questions as to whether Mayfield was let go due to the allegations, saying only that the famed trumpeter had brought “countless moments of show-stopping entertainment” to the venue.

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