So now it's a matter of 'laws being broken'... Guess what? Hardy appealed, no law broken... Just keep contradicting yourself to defend your selective morality in regards to the Patriots.. Cheating in personal life and the football field..
He did more than just appeal.
His guilty verdict was
expunged from his record. DA's don't just expunge guilty verdicts on a whim either.
It's about people (and the media and Judge Tin) that convicted him before they had all of the facts. Now that the facts are being presented they either want to cover their ears and yell out loud like children or come up with any excuse to try to claim they were right.
I don't think Hardy is a great guy by any means. I thought the rap video he did was ignorant and insensitive. I think he didn't do himself any favors by letting Holder stay in his life when there were numerous reports of her acting like a mentally unstable person.
But, that doesn't make him a woman beater. And the DA would not have expunged his guilty conviction for no good reason. Had Hardy appealed and the DA could not get Holder to testify, it still doesn't mean that the DA has to expunge anything. OTOH, it's much more difficult to re-try a case when you have a 911 call with Holder apologizing and begging that she doesn't want to be arrested. It's hard to ignore the police officer statements of Holder running away from them or the mark on Hardy's face or Holder's statements to police not jiving with her testimony at the bench trial. And it's hard to ignore that Holder admitted to being high on coke and drunk.
I think in most situations not involving a football player, especially one that is a Dallas Cowboys player...getting the guilty verdict expunged would be treated much differently by the media...as in presuming that he was innocent because that guilty conviction was expunged. Like most normal people would do with anybody else that had a guilty verdict expunged from their record because...that's what expungment is supposed to accomplish.
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