More details emerge in Jourdan Lewis situation

cute bro....your reply was penis-only, that's for sure.

sure this is a very common scenario and all, but all the same, I think it is safe practice not to engage in any unwanted physical contact with a woman.  I guess that you could feasible get "shot to death" following this approach but I still think it is a wise policy.

Agreed.  I'll preface what I'm about to say by pointing out that this is TOTAL speculation, but:

Reading the two accounts, I can see a way in which both are kinda-sort-of true, but in my interpretation, Lewis doesn't come out nearly that bad, in my opinion.

He's sleeping/passed out with the lights on.  Tensions have been rising in the relaitonship due to imminent change and the fear on Miller's part that maybe she won't be a part of his future in the NFL.  She has a lot of financial anxiety and/or feels resentment that she pays the utility bills whereas he's being wasteful & about to make millions.  She's been the dutiful girlfriend helping them get through school while they were poor students, and now she's pissed that he may leave her now that he's about to make his big payday.

She imprudently wakes him up & makes some comment about leaving the lights on.  Both are perhaps still drunk/buzzed and it escalates into an argument.  The first escalation is waking the dude up from sleeping to argue in the first place.  He's startled & irritated.  He throws the pillows/blanket at her in response.  

Starts yelling & possibly escalating a bit physically.  "Oh no you DIDN'T just throw those pillows at me!  Apologize right now!"  Basically more startled & indignant than anything else.

He starts thinking, "I'm out of here," and moves towards the closet to get dressed & leave.  She wants to continue the argument and isn't finished getting her point across, so she starts getting into his face & interrupting him getting dressed.  He closes the closet door & is trying to keep the door shut while also getting dressed half drunk/in the dark, all while trying to hold the door shut to prevent her from coming in & stopping him from getting dressed.

They basically play tug-of-war with the closet door.  The door opens inward into the closet, so on Lewis' end, he needs to lean against it or hit it/hold/push it with his hand to keep it shut.  And she interprets that is him "punching" the door while he's inside.  She's trying to do the same to pry it open.

He emerges from the closet dressed & moves towards the exit.  She still wants to escalate & prevent him from leaving--both physically & metaphorically, as the prior tensions about immiment break-up come to a head.  Because she is so much smaller than him, she basically uses her entire body to grab onto his legs/feet/knees by wrapping her arms & legs around them, trying to prevent him from leaving.  They're pobably shouting at each other this whole time.

In trying to pry her off of his legs, he grabs her shoulders/head/neck area to try to get her off of him & to free his legs.  Ultimately he succeeds, which is why she ends up on the ground. Lewis keeps her pinned her to the ground for a 1-2 seconds to basically try to chill her out and immobilize her while he angles himself for a clear shot at the door.  

He lets her go once he has a clear shot & takes off out the door.  She remainds behind, crying.

Anyway, totally wild speculation on my part, but this is a very plausible situation where both of their stories have a hint of truth.  There could be a hundred different varriations on a similar confrontation.

In my view, if this happened, I don't see that Lewis did anything wrong.  The only debatable item would be whether he used more force thean necessary to unpry her from his legs and/or whether pinning her to the ground was necessary for him to get a clear shot at the door to get out.  And I suppose on a technical level, somebody could press charges for having a pillow thrown at them--but really?  A pillow?

I don't care if you're a man or a woman.  Nobody has the right to inflict false imprisonment on you.  He should have the right to vacate the apartment, and in my mind, he should have the right to use only the MINIMUM force required to achieve that goal.  In my hypothetical above, the case would hinge on whether or not he did in fact use the minimum required, or if he put a little extra muscle behind his actions and/or held her to the ground longer than necessary to achieve his goals of simply leaving the apartment if she was physically blocking him.

But again, all wild speculation.  If I'm a prosecutor, I don't see how you can convict with a "beyond a reasonable doubt" threshold.  If it was a civil dispute & preponderance of the evidence (50/50) she'd have a case.  But if criminal proceedings need something like a 97% or 98% chance of guilt to convict for the beyond a reasonable doubt standard, I don't see how this holds up if it's just a he said/she said thing.

Don't tell Scotty!!!!!!!!

+1 underrated 

home now, and do defense work. 

agree with XtraMelanin also that you don't want to rush to judgment, but you also don't want to completely discount the accuser with out good reason.  The police thought they had enough evidence to arrest and evidently the prosecutor thinks they have enough evidence to bring charges so I would not dismiss it out of hand that a criminal act occurred. 

was late to work because i did first barn chores this a.m.   happens sometimes.  left the milking for the kids to do though. 

shooting, stabbing, beating, domestic violence and dope case known to mankind.  i have handled, short of trial, thousands of these cases.  i have been on scene, broken up fights, taken statements (in different languages sometimes), stepped in blood, marked evidence, weapons, witnesses, and been to more autopsies then i ever care to remember.  

maybe, just maybe, that might give me some slight insight into what really happens on the street.   the circumstantial evidence she gives, plus his, makes his story much more believable in my opinion.   i'd try this case in a nanosecond.  

Why are you so quick to assume it isn't?

Because that's exactly what you have done all through this thread.