MSU police investigation complete. Ingham Co. to decide on prosecution
March 14th, 2017 at 12:01 PM ^
nothing really newsworthy yet
March 14th, 2017 at 12:01 PM ^
them to do the wrong thing yet again.
March 14th, 2017 at 12:02 PM ^
Nada will come from this.
March 14th, 2017 at 12:12 PM ^
Mucho will come from this
See, I can be contrarian AND use broken Spanish too! :-D
will suspend the three players from the spring game. That will teach them a life lesson.
Isn't that a light chicken gravy?
March 14th, 2017 at 12:10 PM ^
Would think that no matter what happens in the criminal matter, the school will be likely to punish given the lower burden of proof and everything else that has gone on at MSU.
March 14th, 2017 at 12:30 PM ^
Precisely. The Title IX investigation by the university is independent of any criminal investigation and is a completely different ballgame when it comes to burden of proof.
Furthermore, from my understanding, this incident had elements similar to, although with greater severity than, what LTT was removed from the Michigan football team for.
March 14th, 2017 at 12:13 PM ^
and predict a ruling of "boys will be boys"
March 14th, 2017 at 12:18 PM ^
Will Hollis hire Lionel Hutz as their attorney ?
March 14th, 2017 at 12:35 PM ^
But at least Ol' Gil's got their back
But he will hire Miguel Sanchez!
...is insured for a lot of money.
While we were all sitting in our air conditioning they were out there sweating th... you know, this analogy doesn't fit well.
March 14th, 2017 at 12:15 PM ^
They'll all be back starting game one.
March 14th, 2017 at 12:20 PM ^
The two quarters they will be sitting out against Bowling Green may get dicey.
March 14th, 2017 at 12:34 PM ^
would be dicey with the team at full strength anyway
If it were against Furman
March 14th, 2017 at 12:20 PM ^
Is it odd that the prosecutor is relying on an investigation by the Michigan State police as opposed to the East Lansing police? Are they one and the same?
March 14th, 2017 at 12:26 PM ^
ELPD is responsible for East Lansing. The Michigan State Police are... the State Police (same guys that pulled you over that time outside Clare). I expect they are more capable than MSU Public Safety when it comes to an investigation of this type.
March 14th, 2017 at 12:36 PM ^
The MSU Police did the investigation, not the State Police (blue cruisers with the bubble light).
"On Feb. 9, Michigan State announced that MSU Police were investigating a sexual assault"
will be shit. If the Michigan State Police were investigating, you have a top notch team with excellent skills and a laser focus on getting it right. I trust the State police, and have little confidence in the other fools.
Correct, they aren't the state police per se, but I thought that - like the police on Michigan's campus, as I recall - they essentially have MSP-esque powers even if their coverage is a relatively small area like campus. I could be wrong, but that was always my understanding of campus police in the state of Michigan in most places.
Are also handling the Nassar investigation. Now, maybe seeing schools like Baylor, and the horrible effort of an investigation into Minnesota Football are giving me tinted glasses, but the hesitation of MSU not being willing to outsource these investigations to the Michigan State Police, whose HQ is literally down the street in Dimondale, is baffling to me. I'm not saying MSU PD is incapable of performing an investigation, but at the end of the day, Michigan State University writes their checks, their budget, everything. This screams conflict of interest, but again, I am not a legal or police expert.
Briles was trying to keep cases from going to the campus police.
I would be surprised if MSU had any say over which police force had jurisdiction to investigate this matter. My understanding from presentations given by Michigan's campus police force is that the university does not create or control the force. Instead, it's a division of the state police with jurisdiction over the campus.
Campus cops are usually county sheriffs.
MSUPD and ELPD are separate but equal entities. MSUPD has primary jurisdiction in this matter and its officers are State of Michigan certified and sworn.
March 14th, 2017 at 12:24 PM ^
I'd expect to hear something in 3-9 days...
No. They will put it on the backburner (the couch on the back porch). Won't hear anything for at least 23-32 days.
March 14th, 2017 at 12:26 PM ^
First Time!
March 14th, 2017 at 12:35 PM ^
Expect stuff to be announced late Friday as all "bad news" is, and this week especially lost in the news flow during the NCAAs.
so maybe they can hold this off under Saturday morning at 1 am.
Why would the Ingham County prosecutor's office care about notifying the public of the charges during the NCAA tounament? They are completely unrelated.
I doubt they care in the slightest about the timing of the charges and getting it lost in some sort of news cycle.
March 14th, 2017 at 12:36 PM ^
If Mark Hollis has any sway in the outcome of these investigations I predict that Spartans will be forgiven for doing bad things and for some reason Wisconsin players will be punished.
Michigan.
March 14th, 2017 at 12:37 PM ^
I still cannot process how something like this could ever happen
March 14th, 2017 at 12:48 PM ^
Captain Renault of the MSU police department says he has had his best detectives on it.
I fully expect this to be a "nothing to see here. Move along" type situation. Especially with sparty patrol on the case. Also, there will be a heartwarming story involving one of the players that will land in the national media's lap invoking significant sympathy.
How long was the investigation? It seems like it was rather short.
This week?
As a defense attorney, I'd be surprised if it was only a week. The prosecutor's office is going to proceed carefully on this because it's high profile and the charges are of a sensitive nature.
They'll be very thorough. Sometimes I've seen a case get sent back for more investigation if it's needed before filing something. I'd say several weeks.
MSU police tried getting warrants on the 3 individuals . Prosecutor wants a little more evidence and the waiting on some lab results and evidence to be processed. Once that is given warrants should be issues