Sam Hurd expected to be sentenced to life in prison *UPDATED* 15 Years - Article In Post 106

[GimmeTheBall!]

Sam, you weren't all that as a receiver. And weren't all that as a drug dealer. Big-time criminal you are Sam. Your life, for all intents and purposes, is over. I just hope you can make them license plates look real purdy. Oh, wait, federal prison, no license plates. Well, i hope the guards and inmates don't treat you too bad and make you cry and stuff.

 

[CaptainCreed]

Article makes him seem innocent actually, kinda weird. Asking for trouble getting involved with guys like that.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Wow. Just when I think these young NFL players will never amaze me, something like this goes down. Could strong league mentorship have prevented this? I think not. That type of person is embedded within and mentorship will only help the public persona. That said, is this a classic case of our legal eagles taking things a bit too far? I say yes.

By the time these . . . gentlemens . . . get to the NFL, the mindset has been arrived at and the view of the world is what they saw growing up. Too late. You can take the thug out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the thug or something like that.

He chose this life. Now it is up to him to not whine and take it like the mini-thug he is, or wanted to be.

 

[CaptainCreed]

Many members of the US gov't should be doing football numbers too then. But I digress, carry on

I guess they have no idea about Colombia...

 

[Questfor6]

I wonder if Ratliff went to Chicago to take over the business? Just kidding I just remember him & Calvin Watkins in a near physical confrontation over the subject Sam Hurd.

 

[erod]

Honestly, if you would have lined up that entire team and asked me to pick the least likely guys to do something like this, Hurd would have been in my top five. Shocking.

He's like Walter White in that way.

 

[Denim Chicken]

life in prison for drug trafficking? Seems a little barbaric to me

Agree. Without any violent actions on his part or weapons charges doubt they'll get him for life

 

[SkinsandTerps]

Life is too harsh. For that crime.

10-20 years, sure...Life, that's overkill.

Chris Rock made a joke years ago, "Drug dealers don't sell drugs, they offer them".
Perhaps it's not a good joke, but it is true.

 

[Kevinicus]

Please explain when cocaine was made legal and why it should be?

There is definitely an argument for why it should be legal (including the cartels you mention), but that is political.

 

[CaptainCreed]

Life is too harsh. For that crime.

10-20 years, sure...Life, that's overkill.

Chris Rock made a joke years ago, "Drug dealers don't sell drugs, they offer them".
Perhaps it's not a good joke, but it is true.

And it is just next man up to distribute. Hurd is not the last one.

 

[SkinsandTerps]

And it is just next man up to distribute. Hurd is not the last one.

Exactly. If it were that easy there would have never been a war on drugs to begin with.
Always the next guy, often times that guy is worse than the person he is replacing.

 

[JohnsKey19]

Come on Sam! Take your $1-2 mil a year over a 6-8 year career and live happily ever after. You had no business whatsoever getting involved in the coke game!

 

[erod]

Life is too harsh. For that crime.

10-20 years, sure...Life, that's overkill.

Chris Rock made a joke years ago, "Drug dealers don't sell drugs, they offer them".
Perhaps it's not a good joke, but it is true.

To children.

 

[CaptainMorgan]

Thats really an interesting read.

Dummy

 

[Phoenix]

Hope the article is still up later. Appears to be blocked from work...and I've tried Firefox, Chrome, and IE...nothing but a blank white page.

 

[Deep_South]

In Memphis, a 28 year old black male is more likely to be in prison than to have a job. That is what the "war on drugs" has brought us.

The source is "Opportunity Lost - Race and Poverty in the Memphis City Schools" by Marcus Pohlmann.

With regard to the article, I think there is zero possibility that "Happy Birthday" was clearly audible in the tape but left out of the transcript by accident.

 

[Direwolf63]

In Memphis, a 28 year old black male is more likely to be in prison than to have a job. That is what the "war on drugs" has brought us.

The source is "Opportunity Lost - Race and Poverty in the Memphis City Schools" by Marcus Pohlmann.

With regard to the article, I think there is zero possibility that "Happy Birthday" was clearly audible in the tape but left out of the transcript by accident.

Maybe that 28 year old black male should have gone to school and made something of himself instead of getting involved in the drug trade.

It's all about choices and the consequences that go with them.

 

[speedkilz88]

The three guys that got eight years should be the ones getting life. Sam should have got the eight years at best. The marijuana trafficking is his biggest crime that he's actually guilty of. Being handed the kilo of coke seems like entrapment.

 

[speedkilz88]

The feds really should have to prove where the money is if he was truly a coke kingpen.

 

[CaptainCreed]

In Memphis, a 28 year old black male is more likely to be in prison than to have a job. That is what the "war on drugs" has brought us.

The source is "Opportunity Lost - Race and Poverty in the Memphis City Schools" by Marcus Pohlmann.

With regard to the article, I think there is zero possibility that "Happy Birthday" was clearly audible in the tape but left out of the transcript by accident.

Yeah the article is very clear in showing feds are trying to bury Hurd any way possible and taking the word of his counterparts over his. He sounds like he has a reasonable explanation for some of it. Not defending the guy, just not sure this should be a life sentence. I would deny deny deny as well but Sam got involved with people he should not have thought he could trust and yes you can argue that a larger societal issue is also to blame as well.