Superbowl: Community Service, What dat?
I’m pleased the Saints won yesterday’s game and am more pleased that the game was entertaining. There is a lot of buzz about how the New Orleans Saints players help the City of New Orleans in the long wake of Katrina.
Well, remember Anthony Hargrove?
See Anthony Hargrove was a Buffalo Bill before be was traded to the New Orleans Saints. He had all kinds of issues in his career and in 2007 pushed a cop and was arrested in Rochester for disorderly conduct. Well, he was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and had to pay a $300 fine. He was going to perform some local community service with the Boys and Girls club.
Well - no surprise, it didn’t happen. He skipped town, his lawyer petitioned the court that his service was performed in Florida and a local Judge accepted the argument.
Push a cop, plead and perform community service on your own terms? Sounds fair to me if you are a football player. Can you imagine that happening to a “regular” person?
It just strikes me wrong. That’s all -
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It sounds to me that Hargrove satisfied the community service intentions of the Court, or, you should be criticizing the judge.
Hargrove was to do community service in Rochester where the crime was committed. A judge accepted his community service in Florida. Hargrove did not perform community service in Rochester. I disagree with the Judge’s decision based on what I know that is available publicly.