Prosecutor Statement on Delay In Charges for Mazi
He wasn't arrested on the scene by Ann Arbor police so extra investigation was done after information was received on October 14th.
December 1st, 2022 at 2:13 PM ^
Word on Reddit boards (with usual reliability caveats) is that Mazi had filled out the paperwork for a concealed carry license, and was within the 45-day waiting period on Oct. 14, hence technically what he did was a violation but that people in the know don't think it's a big deal.
UPDATE: Reddit is right, according to Mazi's attorney, speaking at the hearing.
smith was in the process of attaining his concealed license when he was pulled over, and he has since received it, according to his attorney
— ace (correct, insufferable) (@AceAnbender) December 1, 2022
December 1st, 2022 at 5:24 PM ^
Not to be a Debbie downer, but if it's not really a big deal then why charge him more than a month and a half later? Unless the prosecutor is just covering his own behind, which could possibly be the case.
December 1st, 2022 at 5:40 PM ^
He was busy reviewing all the unreleased footage from the tunnel....
December 1st, 2022 at 2:22 PM ^
I mentioned this in the big old original thread, but if he's not arrested, seven weeks isn't a weirdly long time to file charges. There's no arrest, there's no evidence that's going to disappear or be impacted by delay, and no victim (other than I'm sure somehow Tom Izzo). The prosecutors office has about 100 other things going on at a given time that are time sensitive and this really wasn't. It's not some goddamn conspiracy.
December 1st, 2022 at 2:30 PM ^
Chef's kiss to the Izzo reference.
December 1st, 2022 at 3:01 PM ^
Well they were trying to clear up a small tunnel incident involving some out-ot-towners. What were the, 8 of them?
December 1st, 2022 at 3:41 PM ^
The corrupt-prosecutor conspiracy doesn't even make sense to me. If he's in the bag for UM why charge Mazi now (instead of after playoff) -- or at all?
December 1st, 2022 at 4:23 PM ^
You joke, but MSU Twitter has their panties wadded so far up their own asses about this it wasn't really that far off.
Apparently this is *exactly the same* as taking your helmet off and beating someone in the face with it, and thus he should be suspended indefinitely and Harbaugh fired into the sun for not suspending him the moment it happened back in October.
December 1st, 2022 at 2:27 PM ^
December 1st, 2022 at 2:31 PM ^
Word on the street is he was wearing a long sleeve shirt. Can't be concealing those guns without a permit.
December 1st, 2022 at 2:55 PM ^
Dammit. Another story gets past the Blue Wall. We got some improvements to make folks.
December 1st, 2022 at 3:13 PM ^
I'm annoyed there's a lead story on ESPN about this that doesn't include any of this additional evidence, just the original nothing article about the charge. Doubt that'll be get updated any time soon so it's extremely misleading and catnip for the aggrieved Tom Izzo stans of the world.
December 1st, 2022 at 3:19 PM ^
Are you surprised by that? You shouldn't be... Wait until Saturday - when GameDay, Fox Game Day, CBS, and whoever is broadcasting the actual games starts in. It should be a fun day filled with a complete lack of detail, because that's how talking heads roll these days...
December 2nd, 2022 at 5:42 AM ^
It’s the medias job to work everyone into a lather while leaving out key details to the contrary. Precisely why I get my news from the weather channel now days.
December 1st, 2022 at 3:14 PM ^
Yet another reason this should have been announced 7 weeks ago. This is nothing. A simple announcement 7 weeks, when it first happened, would have blown over in 5 minutes and we wouldn't have a story today. Let alone conspiracy theories. Or an entire day of broadcast publication on Saturday by nationally relevant talking heads telling the entire world that one of the Michigan starters is facing felony charges. There will be no details - they don't serve up details.
Don Canham said to never turn a one-day crap into a multi-day shitfest. Congratulations, Warde - you just did that again. You're pretty good at it, actually...
December 1st, 2022 at 3:52 PM ^
I think the legal rights of the player could have been impacted by doing that. There are issues of fact. Then also privacy issues. Are maybe the reasons why they didn't.
It would have been smoother now if it were known in October. Because of the time lag. Or it would be the same but now you'd have everyone speculating making Smith's life unnecessarily complicated for two months.
Maybe one of our Mgo Lawyers could comment on this on one of the threads.
December 1st, 2022 at 4:43 PM ^
Well, it probably would not have been a one-day thing, it would have been 7 weeks of speculating and complaining and F-all.
December 1st, 2022 at 5:30 PM ^
You really think it wouldn't have been a multi-day shitfest to announce something that he likely legally couldn't have announced a week before the Penn state game, and three weeks before the MSU game. That would have been a daily bowl of shit up until the OSU game.
December 1st, 2022 at 4:35 PM ^
To be clear, OP's link says he WAS arrested on the scene, but he was released. They would have charged him right away if he had been kept in custody.
December 1st, 2022 at 5:44 PM ^
I just came back to correct myself. Thank you.
December 2nd, 2022 at 9:47 AM ^
The people who this doesn't affect are making a bigger deal out of this than the one's who this does affect.