Jabrill Peppers acquitted

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Given that he is essentially suspended is disputing a serious charge in court as well as having admitted to cocaine possession, it seems feasible for him to step down as Captain so they can put someone else in the role.
I'm not sure why people keep bringing up the cocaine possession. As long as he has no prior record of possession (I assume he doesn't), he'd likely just have to pay a fine. It's everything else he has to worry about.
As far as stepping down as captain, if he's innocent, (as he claims he is) why step down? Also, the Pats have five other captains, so they should be fine.
 

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I'm not sure why people keep bringing up the cocaine possession. As long as he has no prior record of possession (I assume he doesn't), he'd likely just have to pay a fine. It's everything else he has to worry about.
As far as stepping down as captain, if he's innocent, (as he claims he is) why step down? Also, the Pats have five other captains, so they should be fine.
Agree on the coke. Optics aren't awesome, but Ty Law's thing didn't stop a bunch of pro bowls, super bowls, and an all-pro.

As far as stepping down as captain, maybe he wouldn't want to be a distraction. I could understand that.

It's all about the assault and what did and didn't happen.
 

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Reiss reports some comments from Kraft:

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41741195/can-patriots-manage-better-drake-maye-debut-texans-week-6

Patriots owner Robert Kraft was a guest on "The Breakfast Club", a national morning radio show, promoting his just-launched "#TimeOut Against Hate" campaign, and also addressed safety Jabrill Peppers being placed on the commissioner exempt list.

"When you read the [police report] initially, it turns your stomach. Once he goes on the commissioner exempt list, they do their independent checking. We're doing ours. If what was reported is true, he's gone. There have been some suggestions that this was a set-up and a lot of what was reported isn't accurate ... We want to get the facts."
 

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Just got a push notification from the Athletic saying he's off the commissioners list and might PLAY against Indy?

I would certainly hope they do not play him.
 
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Wow. What a stressful thing. I'm glad this has been resolved. I wonder if Peppers will be invited to share his story at the rookie symposium he refers to in his post-verdict comments.
 

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I updated the thread title.

Wow. What a stressful thing. I'm glad this has been resolved. I wonder if Peppers will be invited to share his story at the rookie symposium he refers to in his post-verdict comments.
A jury found that the prosecution did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Peppers had committed the charged crimes. That’s very different from a finding that the allegations against him were false. There’s a civil lawsuit pending; if that goes to trial, we might get a better sense of what happened (or didn’t).

The acquittal should be enough to let Peppers resume his career. (Edit: Aside from whatever punishment he gets for the cocaine charges, which I believe are covered by the collectively bargained drug policy.) Anything beyond that is premature.
 

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I don’t want to make light of a serious situation but JuJu being involved as the other dude is reason #542 why signing him over Meyers was such a mistake.
 

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I don’t want to make light of a serious situation but JuJu being involved as the other dude is reason #542 why signing him over Meyers was such a mistake.
The only silver lining on JuJu is that he didn't exactly light it up when he went back to KC, 18/231/2, after just 29/260/1 last year.

I take it back if he makes a big play this weekend or (heaven forbid) in a couple of weeks.
 

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I updated the thread title.



A jury found that the prosecution did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Peppers had committed the charged crimes. That’s very different from a finding that the allegations against him were false. There’s a civil lawsuit pending; if that goes to trial, we might get a better sense of what happened (or didn’t).

The acquittal should be enough to let Peppers resume his career. (Edit: Aside from whatever punishment he gets for the cocaine charges, which I believe are covered by the collectively bargained drug policy.) Anything beyond that is premature.
Obviously true, but I do think it says something that the verdict was reached in less than 30 minutes. I think it's somewhat hard to believe that a woman was violently picked up off her feet and choked against a wall and then thrown down a flight of stairs, but police saw no visible injuries nor was any documented in the days/weeks after.

Maybe something comes from this in a civil case but it doesn't appear she has any evidence to support her claims, whereas he at least has a video recording showing him asking her to leave his domicile.
 

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Obviously true, but I do think it says something that the verdict was reached in less than 30 minutes
I now nothing about the Peppers trail, and can't really comment on that

FWIW, I will add I've served on two juries, one for murder and the other for armed robbery and assault

In one of these the evidence was overwhelming and the jury was more-or-less unanimous (this was a couple decades ago and memory is little fuzzy). It still took us two days of deliberations to work through the charges, adequately discuss the evidence consistent with the instructions of the judge, and render our different decisions (in this case there were a bunch of different charges to be considered, with different severity / evidentiary standards).

The other trial was far more complicated and inconclusive. Deliberations took a lot longer.

Reaching a verdict is less than 30 minutes is really impressively short, based on my (limited) experience.