Arrest warrant out for top NFL prospect UGA DL Jalen Carter after fleeing scene of fatal car crash that resulted in deaths of UGA teammate and staffer
This is a huge story. Former UGA DL Jalen Carter and projected top 5 pick now has a warrant out for his arrest after he was street racing a teammate and staffer at twice the speed limit, the other car crashed resulting in 2 deaths, he fled the scene, and proceeded to lie to police about where he was
Unconscionable.
Hopefully this happened in a county where Dawgs football is more important than human life and public safety, so that justice can be done, Georgia-style.
good luck. id be shocked if anything happens to him.
one should get hammered for the incident, fleeing, lying, its all bad. but it would be pleasant surprise if he faced any consequences at all
If his draft stock dropped to where he was available for the Lions, would you pick him?
Quick, somebody call Alex Murdaugh!
Wow - that sucks for everyone involved...if the driver was over 2X the legal limit, what about the others? This may cause a big drop if the potential sentence is more than a month or so.
Perhaps I misread it but my understanding was that they were driving twice the speed limit, not twice over the allowable BAC level.
EDIT: I see the BAC level in the report now. Yikes!
You're good.
I did the same thing as the OP has this:
at twice the speed limit,
I believe both twice BAC and twice the speed limit are true
Looks like Carter may get off slightly lighter since they can no longer confirm if he was over the legal limit (BAC), which it seems likely at this point that he was.
Still, reckless driving, racing, fleeing the scene of an accident, obstructing a police investigation all seem to be on the table.
That really sucks that you break the law on purpose a second time (fleeing) to get away from the first (drinking and driving) and get a way lesser sentence by knowingly breaking the law again.
Just like OJ should have, if you flee a scene, it should be the worst possible offense available. The judge should drop an atomic bomb on you.
If you are fleeing and not cooperating, you are obviously beyond guilty.
I'm going to disagree with your last sentence, because that's a bad idea. But the rest I'm okay with. I look at it like pleading the 5th - a court will presume that you did it, so you won't get any benefit of doubt. Nor should you. If the available evidence (even if circumstantial) says you're likely guilty - and you refuse to defend yourself, you're probably going to be found guilty.
Note that I am not a lawyer, nor did I stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night - so don't take my opinion as fact.
Technically, pleading the 5th should not affect a presumption of innocence... Of course, it rarely plays out that way, especially in a jury trial.
Note that I am not a lawyer but I watched the Paul Newman movie THE VERDICT when I was 10 years old, and I once tossed a frisbee around the Law Quad for an hour.
Article says he left the scene of the crash before the cops came but returned in 2 hours. Unless he was just barely over the limit, he still would of been impaired when he returned. Nothing says that they gave him a BAC test. If he was on the scene and noticeably drunk and not tested that is some form of special treatment failure on the cops. He could have stopped, found out his 2 friends just died and freaked out.
whelp...that seems like it may be a problem.
Drag racing is more common than you think. We just had a similar case here in Knoxville during the middle of the day on a busy street. Killed one and put two kids in the hospital. Scary stuff with huge consequences, both health wise and legal exposure.
When I was going through drivers ed here in Illinois many years ago they highlighted that the penalties for drag racing were equal to DUIs.
There are places to go drive fast legally - look up your local SCCA - and don't risk the public.
Yeah, that's the thing that got me - he's drunk and driving super-fast on city streets. If these guys want to go fast there are so many legal ways to do so.
Racing on tracks is great and all, but they aren't convenient when you're just driving down the street and get stupid. Also, tracks are places you're car insurance probably won't cover. Trash your Mustang on turn 3, and <insert insurance company here> is pretty likely to tell you to fuck off...
Drag racing on city streets is only performed by the dumbest dummasses among us. It should not be done.
Trash your mustang drag racing on a city street and they'll tell you to pound sand too. I'm not sure what point you're making other than people can be impulsive and dangerous with 5000lb vehicles.
No point, other than to maybe caution some not to go racing out to a track to race...
People constantly race each other on 96 by Davison, in Detroit. It is idiotic and I am shocked there are not more accidents because of it. Find a track and race all that you want. Don't do it on public streets/highways. Way to throw away another person's life and your own future, Jalen.
I commute every day the 96 express lanes. There are never any cops in that area.
Yeah the turns going westbound coming out of downtown is a daily drag race.
Oh yeah. If you grew up in Detroit you know the spots. Eastside off of Chalmers, Westside off of Joy Rd. It has been going on for so long.
As of late though, I know from my cousin who was a DPD Sgt. that there was a faster response to drag racing than a shooting call...
I suppose I will get negged for this but have to point out a pet peeve: the deterioration of precision in our language. (And this is coming from someone who hated English courses throughout my academic career. But even I recognize that it is difficult to communicate effectively when there are fewer, more general words available in the people's vocabulary,) Drag racing has always meant a race from a standing start, in a straight line, with a specifically defined finish line. But two or more cars driving fast, passing other cars and each other, weaving out of traffic, etc.is just undisciplined and unorganized street racing.
This is a problematic trend in our language. Other examples that jump immediately to mind: calling every military ship with guns a battleship, the conflation of the expressions: take over and overtake (which have completely different meanings).
What a moron
I give him an A for spelling "get" right. This has to be graded on a significant handicap.
No, the correct spelling from around them parts is "git".
Eh, to be fair that was edited. Here's the original, which isn't quite as bad...
Wow. It'll be interesting to see what comes of this. He wasn't going to be the number 1 pick with several teams looking to trade there, but still likely to be a top 5-10. I'd imagine he falls a bit in the draft, but not far at all. Some team will take him, but sadly everyone will forget about this, and if he turns out to play well the pick will be known as a steal of the draft. Not at all at the same level, but Tunsil is said to be a steal since he dropped down the draft due to his...interesting social media posts.
He'll be a Cowboy. Book it.
Jerry Jones will come out with something on how people should get a second chance and how they talked to his mom and his pastor and his childhood friends and how is he a great kid who made a mistake.
Everyone murders, or at least is an accessory.
/Terrelle Pryor
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Imagining the other side here - doesnt he deserve a chance if he serves out the legal consequences? Say he pleads guilty to all charges, does that even come with jail time or just probation.
There's always an argument about "does punishing this person and preventing them from living their life benefit society in any way"
Is the best case scenario is he uses his future wealth and fame to pay restitution to affected families, and publicize the dangers of drag racing and driving drunk?
If not, what is?
It will be forgotten. Joe Mixon famously sucker punched a woman and look at him now.
These guys were racing pretty massive SUVs (an Expedition and Trackhawk are both over 2.5T) down city streets while drunk and that wound up killing two people. I have no sympathy for drunk drivers and I hope they punish Carter to the furthest extent of the law.
Also, in much less serious but also alcohol-related UGa news, the Stetson Bennett police report came out from his arrest in Dallas and it sounded like he was trying to hide from the cops, lied about why he was trying to get into peoples' homes, and was quite inebriated. And while I'm not going to get too upset about a drunk person making an ass of himself, the fact he's 25 years old and doing this is embarrassing.
"they responded at about 6:15 a.m. on Jan. 29 to a suspicious person call at a town home on the morning he was arrested for public intoxication...
On the day of the arrest, Dallas Police said they responded to reports of a man banging on doors....
Bennett identified himself and was unable to call his friend who police said he claimed lived at the location. He was unable to provide his friend’s address. Bennett did not have a cell phone on himself to call his friend, the report said."
I overindulged more than a few times when I was in my teens and 20s, but I've never been remotely close to being so hammered that I started banging on the doors of random houses. Some people just can't handle their booze, and I suspect Bennett might be in that group.
I actually went to a friend's neighbor's house when I was trashed once by accident in my 20s. This one is meh.
I was never much of a drinker (which is sort of ironic given the industry I currently work is closely related to various libations) and the couple of times I did get hammered as a college student/grad student I generally just got sleepy and a bit overly friendly. I do remember people hitting doors and acting like idiots but the fact he's that wasted at 6:15 am shows a level of drunkenness that ain't great.
"the fact he's that wasted at 6:15 am"... means he undoubtedly had a horrific hangover.
At 21 you could shake it off. At 45, I think I’d rather just die.
A drunk mistakenly trying to get into the wrong house isn’t unusual. I went to one once where the guy came in through the living room window, took a massive shit in the hall toilet (which he didn’t flush) and then collapsed onto the bed in the master bedroom, next to the couple who lived there. He was fast asleep when we arrived and quite annoyed when asked to wake up and get out of their bed.
He is only 25, not yet 40 so not quite a man.
"I have no sympathy for drunk drivers and I hope they punish Carter to the furthest extent of the law."
Well, in the bad news department for Carter he can no longer benefit UGA football - so he may face that extent of the law. If he still had eligibility to help UGA win another Championship, I doubt he would be too concerned...
When you said 2.5t I thought you were referring to payload, and I thought, holy shit where do I get myself one of those!
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Leaving the scene was likely better for him legally if he were intoxicated at the time.