Jourdan Lewis to be tried on domestic violence charge
After reading the original reports, it looked like a he-said/she-said, and I leaned toward Jourdan's version as sounding more plausible. But there was apparently enough to go to trial. Wish the best for all involved and hope the truth comes out.
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/19140521/former-michiga…
April 12th, 2017 at 10:45 AM ^
pretty clear what the end result will be:
April 12th, 2017 at 10:48 AM ^
April 12th, 2017 at 11:15 AM ^
Or she did it right. Maybe the night of her report Jourdan came to her and said its over. Wanted to break it off before the draft, before he got paid.
She saw her only opportunity for the money was to concoct this episode and either (a) convince him to stay with her or (b)try to ruin him when she realized he wasn't staying with her
This is all IF she is accusing him falsely of course. If there really was a DV incident more power to her
April 12th, 2017 at 11:30 AM ^
He basically said this when the report first came out.
April 12th, 2017 at 12:28 PM ^
She was the one that convinced him to stay and play one more year rather than go to the NFL and get paid last year.
http://www.diehardsport.com/college-football/michigan-fans-can-thank-pe…
April 12th, 2017 at 12:52 PM ^
Yeah they went to school together. She knew he would eventually get paid - she just wanted him to be close to her as long as possible. Selfishishness doesnt have to have a dollar sign.
You can't have it both ways. By talking him into staying, she proved she wasn't into his money. Obviously something in the relationship soured to the point where they both became physical with each other, but he said last year that he stayed because she convinced him it was the best idea. IIRC, she said she wouldn't date someone without a college degree, no matter how much he would have been paid in the NFL.
This is just flat-out gross. There's a domestic violence incident, and because the accused is a football player from a team you like, you go directly to "blame the woman" and flat-out call her a golddigger.
Get out of here with this crap. We're better than that as a fanbase.
Accused from your school = benefit of the doubt! he was set up! we need to wait for all the facts to come out!
Accused from rival fanbase = HE'S GUILTY LOCK HIM UP!!
Holy shit it took someone way too long to say this. I understand the "Jourdan's side of the story sounds more beleivable" comment, but the speculative accusations of being a gold digger is ridiculous. I feel like I'm on an MSU or OSU blog, WTF guys
So what you are saying that we all need to have the opinion that Jourdan is a degenerate woman beater until the verdict is not guilty?
We're saying that we don't know the facts, and just because we liked Jourdan as a football player for UM, doesn't mean that his ex-girlfriiend is a gold digger. I personally think he has a good chance of being innocent, but just as you pointed out that we shouldn't assume he is a womanbeater, we also shouldn't assume that his ex is a lying gold digger. Does that make sense to you?
April 13th, 2017 at 12:33 PM ^
April 12th, 2017 at 10:27 AM ^
nevermind
April 12th, 2017 at 10:29 AM ^
April 12th, 2017 at 11:10 AM ^
There are 3 sides to every story.
April 12th, 2017 at 11:14 AM ^
Her side.
His side.
The truth.
April 12th, 2017 at 11:40 AM ^
There are 4 sides.
Her side.
His side.
The truth.
The side of MGoBlog's readership in one collective divided heap. Just to keep it interesting.
April 12th, 2017 at 12:08 PM ^
alternative facts!!!
April 12th, 2017 at 11:25 AM ^
to every story. Yours, mine and the cold hard truth. People will always cast the best light on them that the did nothing wrong. Usually you will find the truth is somewhere in the middle of both stories.
usually the truth is tilted to one side or the other in most cases. At least in my experience viewing plenty of litigation events.
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April 12th, 2017 at 10:32 AM ^
Not great, Bob.
April 12th, 2017 at 10:33 AM ^
April 12th, 2017 at 10:43 AM ^
Uh, probable cause is not a high standard. Almost everything that is alleged properly and gets backed up by testimony (whether the truth or a lie) meets it these days.
April 12th, 2017 at 10:57 AM ^
cause for a misdemeanor, short of trial. there is no preliminary hearing for a misdemeanor which is basically a hearing to determine if there is 'probably cause' to think a crime was committed and the dude/dudette charged is the one who did it.
in michigan you can file a motion to quash (meaning, dismiss) a misdemeanor but it is a nullity as there is no evidentiary procedure that the prosecution has to jump through short of trial.
once charged, this case was always going to go to trial unless the prosecutor wised up and said 'dismissal'. i stand by my earlier prediction of a very quick 'not guilty' verdict. scary to be the guy on trial, but a very good chance of an acquittal.
April 12th, 2017 at 11:17 AM ^
I hope you are right but why would prosecutors waste their time with such a supposedly poor case?
April 12th, 2017 at 11:23 AM ^
It's usually about the politics my friend.
April 12th, 2017 at 11:35 AM ^
100% correct. In today's environment, prosecutors have to look "tough on campus rape". Most think it looks much better to lose the case and blame the jury then it does to not prosecute.
You're jsut making shit up now. Prosecutors love nothing more than their won-loss record--just like about everyone else. They ain't throwing a case for no how.
Remember the Josh Furman case? That was almost laughably weak and the prosecutor still charged hard for a trial. Acquitted easily.
April 12th, 2017 at 11:22 AM ^
I believe I recall your background, and as a criminal trial attorney for 21 years, I can confirm what you say is 100% on the money.
Don't now why people were talking about pc; don't remember the releases reporting it was a felony charged. Maybe somebody filed a motion to challenge the pc submitted in support of a formal arrest warrant, I don't know, nor do I much care.
From what I know, I suspect your prediction of a swift not guilty verdict will prove to be on the money also.
Pretty incisive analysis for a non-lawyer IIRC, beats a lot of lawyers, but after all, you are a Michigan grad. Lol.
April 12th, 2017 at 11:31 AM ^
is a lawyer...... and a farmer. He is the most interesting person on the blog.
April 12th, 2017 at 11:42 AM ^
Thanks. That makes some sense.
Thought I read once that he was a Detroit police officer for a number of years.
He definitely is one of the most interesting, but I have would have a couple of nominees myself who might give him a run, and not necessarily for good reasons.
April 12th, 2017 at 11:44 AM ^
and i'm sure i deserve it. although i think mabel will say the same thing once in a while and might actually mean it. i'm afraid to ask her though.
April 12th, 2017 at 11:54 AM ^
actually wasn't meant to be sarcastic. Everytime I think that I get a feeling for "who you are," I learn something else that completely changes the picture I have in my head.
XM keeps us on our toes.
in the Talking Cars post last week. He is definitely very interesting, and a serious man, who should be taken seriously
but was the lawyer part of running a gang task force out west for a while. 1 LT, 2 SGT's and 20 investigators. great group of guys. was bittersweet when i gave notice. i told them first, before my office, that i was leaving. man did they light up when i described the UP (our destination at that time) to them.
April 12th, 2017 at 12:10 PM ^
My bad, I misused the phrase on the shitter for some reason. What I really meant was "if this is enough for the prosecutor to take to trial." I know it's legally sufficient; my point was more about why the hell they'd actually pursue it.
April 12th, 2017 at 12:28 PM ^
PC is a low bar, but a lot of DAs (in my very limited experience talking to them/listening to them speak) don't jump at the chances to adjudicate cases like this that rely so heavily on victim/defendant claims with little additional physical evidence. That's what surprised me here; even in the police report, there are inconsistencies in the stories of both sides, but the lack of clear marks on the victim or damage to the apartment seems to go against the violence claimed originally.
I guess there might be additional information out there, but it would have to be some really unique bit of info.
April 12th, 2017 at 12:29 PM ^
April 12th, 2017 at 10:38 AM ^
I follow Jourdan on twitter and he would post stuff all the time about how he was so lucky to be with his girlfriend and how much they loved each other. It seemed like it was the real deal. It just goes to show how almost any realationship can take a wrong turn.
April 12th, 2017 at 10:47 AM ^