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

[Denim Chicken]

We spend more per student than any other country on earth. But then again facts never matter to some.

Never said we didn't, simply making a comparison to highlight where our priorities are, though if you look at spending % per GDP we don't crack the top 50.

Now,Im out of this convo as requested by mods.

 

[Ren]

Very interesting article, it does come across like Hurd and his NFL salary got taken advantage of big time

 

[dallasfan4lizife]

good article.

kinda funny how screwed up our judicial system is though.

 

[TNCowboy]

I think Hurd should receive a stiff sentence, but life? That's absurd. It appears to me the cocaine conviction was pretty flimsy, and the reality was that Hurd got into something way over his head. In contrast, I knew a friend's brother who was arrested about 2 years ago, authorities having found a massive marijuana grow room, several illegal weapons (sawed off shotguns, mostly), and a significant amount of cocaine. He went to jail for less than a year, in spite of numerous prior convictions. A guy like that gets off with such a light sentence, and yet these prosecutors want to put Hurd away for life?

Many murderers and rapists don't get life. And I'm hardly some bleeding heart when it comes to criminals. I support capital punishment for such people. But I hope the judge exercises some common sense and does otherwise with Hurd. IMO, these prosecutors want to use Hurd's celebrity for their own political gain and/or celebrity. The whole notion of him being some sort of drug kingpin seems very farfetched. I doubt there's any way he had the connections and clientelle to distribute the massive amount of drugs they're referring to.

It happens frequently. LIke, for example, the idiot DA in the Duke Lacrosse case, and numerous others situations where people were falsely charged. For political gain, some prosecutors are willing to flush lives down the toilet. Even innocent lives, or in Hurd's case, someone who is guilty, though certainly not to the degreee of a life sentence. Hurd should go to prison, but life, or even 20 years? That's insane.

 

[Galian Beast]

We spend more per student than any other country on earth. But then again facts never matter to some.

I'm glad you are familiar with the statistic, but it doesn't really tell the entire story. The first being that there is a wide range of expenditure between the states, and most of the states that are higher in expenditure are ranked much higher in education. Even when you go more into depth at the district level it can still be extremely misleading.

 

[Fmart322]

Life? For a drug that is legal in a few states and growing more legal by the day?
WOW!!!!

I knew he was done with any real semblance of a normal life but 10 years seemed more likely than life..

It's not the weed that's gonna get him life, it's the blow. Just or the cocaine, and the amount, he deserves life. Just think of how many get hooked on that crap everyday and are never the same people again. I've seen to many friends growing up use that crap and ruin their lives. You're gambling with your life when you have any part of drugs. He could of ended up dead, like a lot of people who OD every day, at least he's alive.

 

[BlueStar22]

Guilty of being stupid. If he's sentenced to life, what a disgrace to our justice system this will be.

 

[CaptainCreed]

Guilty of being stupid. If he's sentenced to life, what a disgrace to our justice system this will be.

It is still amazing how he had been made into a Tony Montana by the media when he was never able to even get his hands on the stuff because he was setup from the start and sounds like he was just the guy with the money and other influences around him were bringing him deeper into the mess. "But he would have sold x amount of this a week if the source was legitimate." It was not so he never did and we will not know if he would have actually gone through with it because the feds blew their case before they let him look any more guilty. So many question marks and I understand punishment is required, I just have no idea how you give the guy a life sentence.

 

[CT Dal Fan]

Hurd has been gone a while, so I assume the bulk of the Cowboys he sold drugs to are gone. Wonder how many Bears he sold too as well??

 

[Frozen700]

Breaking Real Bad: Inside the Sam Hurd Drug Case
On Wednesday, former Cowboys and Bears receiver Sam Hurd will likely be sentenced to life in prison for drug trafficking. Is he the cocaine kingpin the government has made him out to be, or the victim of an overzealous prosecution and excessively harsh narcotics laws? An exclusive 22-month investigation reveals how it all went wrong for one of the NFL’s most promising and well-liked young talents—and why there’s more to Hurd’s downfall than we’ve been led to believe

By Michael McKnight
PART I
At 7:35 p.m. on Dec. 14, 2011, Sam Hurd’s black Escalade arrived in a light rain outside a Morton’s restaurant in Chicago and backed into a street space near the entrance. The Bears’ receiver, then 26, had driven to the steak house following practice to meet with two Mexicans who moved cocaine for one of their country’s most violent cartels, the Zetas—a murderous army known for beheading its enemies and dumping their bodies on public streets.

It had been a tense workday for the Bears, who had just lost three games in a row after starting the season 7-3, and after practice Hurd had called one of the Mexicans, Manuel, and asked if he and his cousin would come to Hurd’s suburban Lake Forest home instead of dining out. But Manuel (not his real name) had gently insisted on the restaurant, suggesting the Morton’s near O’Hare because the traffickers were headed that way to pick up cash from an incoming courier.

Read a whole lot more: http://mmqb.si.com/2013/11/12/sam-hurd-cocaine-bust/8/

Life? For drugs?

Give me break...we let people like Casey Anthony walk away with a pat on the back, but sentence a guy for selling drugs to Life.

 

[theSHOW]

I want to make a confession. I did buy a small amount from Sam back when he was in D. Thankfully I did not inhale

 

[Vertigo_17]

Very good article, lots of detail I'd never heard before. Life sentence sounds a little extreme, he seems to have accepted what he did wrong, but not necessarily everything he's accused of.

 

[Vertigo_17]

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.

I've seen the same thing, appears to be a plugin trying to load which may be blocked.

 

[bark]

I want to make a confession. I did buy a small amount from Sam back when he was in D. Thankfully I did not inhale

I'm assuming you didn't have sex with that woman also... Right?

 

[17yearsandcounting]

He made mistakes, but they are correctable mistakes!! Life in prison? Come on.

 

[dupree89]

I havent read each and every post yet in this thread- I will read them all, but I need to be in the right mood...as this story is very depressing to me. Not talking about him as a football player now..just as a young man. Very sad that he will spend the rest of his life locked up. I know many people will say he is getting exactly whats deserved. And I have a hard time countering those feelings.

I guess what I'm thinking is this:
Here is a young man that is going to be tossed in jail forever and he will be costing us money. I wish there was a way that he could be out of jail, never allowed to play football again, must hold a 'regular' job at all times and is tested nearly every day for booze and drugs. If one time he tests + , then away he goes. I would think that this has scared him straight. It just seems like a total waste...of a young man and taxpayers $$$.

I'd like to know if you think I am being soft and way too easy on Sam Hurd. This is serious too...no sarcasm from me in this post.

 

[Gemini Dolly]

wow, that was an intense read.

Hurd did wrong, but life in prison for drugs seems excessive to me.

 

[MonsterD]

This is very fishy, the whole thing. Someone already pointed out he had no network setup to sell that much cocaine and there would be a lot of moving parts. I can't believe he thought he could sell all that much through players, it has to be distributed widely in the area. One thing that seriously has me boggled is why a drug informant knew the friend so well, was this Toby guy well known in the drug trade already?

Either Hurd did lose a lot of money being really naive and stupid and tried to go along then was scared to stop or this was something more orchestrated. Any way you look at it seems to be over the top to sentence him for life, he was an idiot and should go to jail but wow.

 

[FiveRings]

I guess we know why Jerry kept him around as long as he did

 

[Deep_South]

Any way you look at it, there was no connection between Sam Hurd and cocaine until the feds put some in a bag and gave it to him. Then they arrested him and recommended a life sentence.