MSU police investigation complete. Ingham Co. to decide on prosecution
March 14th, 2017 at 12:01 PM ^
March 14th, 2017 at 12:01 PM ^
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
March 14th, 2017 at 12:10 PM ^
March 14th, 2017 at 12:30 PM ^
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 ^
March 14th, 2017 at 12:35 PM ^
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 ^
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
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 ^
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...
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.
March 14th, 2017 at 12:37 PM ^
March 14th, 2017 at 12:48 PM ^
Captain Renault of the MSU police department says he has had his best detectives on it.
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.