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The Daily Advertiser: Judge makes bad statement with ruling
Column by Glenn Guilbeau
BATON ROUGE — Call it Cajun Justice.
Look for Baton Rouge defense attorney Marci Blaize to become the new lawyer of choice for arrested LSU athletes. That can be quite a profitable enterprise, particularly considering the last few years, and particularly when the judges are LSU alums and probably LSU football fans.
Blaize got the twice-arrested, twice-guilty-pleading Jeremy Hill off in a blaze of glory Monday with a well-disguised, two-minute defense that would have won the Alabama game for the Tigers last year.
They were both misdemeanor charges, but one was a violent, premeditated sucker punch caught on tape for the simple battery charge while the other was implied violence toward a 14-year-old girl for the carnal knowledge charge. What a guy!
If you watch the video of the punch, Hill looks much more guilty than former LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson, who was charged with felony second degree battery for kicking a man while he was already down in 2011. Had Hill’s victim not been able to take the punch like Rocky, Hill may have been charged with a felony, too. ...
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20130806/SPORTS0101/308060003/Judge-makes-bad-statement-ruling?nclick_check=1
Column by Glenn Guilbeau
BATON ROUGE — Call it Cajun Justice.
Look for Baton Rouge defense attorney Marci Blaize to become the new lawyer of choice for arrested LSU athletes. That can be quite a profitable enterprise, particularly considering the last few years, and particularly when the judges are LSU alums and probably LSU football fans.
Blaize got the twice-arrested, twice-guilty-pleading Jeremy Hill off in a blaze of glory Monday with a well-disguised, two-minute defense that would have won the Alabama game for the Tigers last year.
They were both misdemeanor charges, but one was a violent, premeditated sucker punch caught on tape for the simple battery charge while the other was implied violence toward a 14-year-old girl for the carnal knowledge charge. What a guy!
If you watch the video of the punch, Hill looks much more guilty than former LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson, who was charged with felony second degree battery for kicking a man while he was already down in 2011. Had Hill’s victim not been able to take the punch like Rocky, Hill may have been charged with a felony, too. ...
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20130806/SPORTS0101/308060003/Judge-makes-bad-statement-ruling?nclick_check=1