So Donté Stallworth was released from jail today. I honestly didn't even know he had started his sentence.
Stallworth was serving a 30 day sentence after being convicted of DUI-Manslaughter. He had apparently been drinking that night at a club in Miami, and struck and killed a pedestrian on his way home.
Stallworth was released after 24 days in jail. This seems rather ridiculous seeing as how a person was killed in the incident and he didn't have to stay the whole term.(Are the jails that overcrowded?)
That aside, other athletes have been given bigger sentences and suspensions for less heinous crimes. I'm not by any means condoning what his current teammate Jamal Lewis did back in 2004, but he was sentenced to four months in prison for conspiring to set up a drug deal. The amount was 5 kilograms of cocaine, and there was intent to distribute. The drug deal never went down, but Lewis took the sentence like a man, coming off his best season where he almost topped Eric Dickerson's single season rushing record.
It's uncertain how long Stallworth will be suspended from the NFL, if at all. Which brings me to another inconsistency, this time within the justice system of the NFL. Adam Jones(he prefers not to be referred to by his nickname anymore) was never convicted of any of the crimes he was arrested for or indicted on. But Roger Goodell, tired of seeing Jones in the spot light for beating up body guards and making it rain in clubs, found it fit to suspend the player for a year.
Once again, not condoning this behavior, but for someone not to be convicted of any crimes, I find it hard to justify a year long suspension while another, more prominent player is getting only 30 day jail sentences for drunken manslaughter.
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