Little previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter as a drunken driver. That was in 1998.
Fox Linky (http://www.foxsports.com/content/view?contentId=2347920)
send em to the state penn.
Ridiculous. He should be put away.
Lock his ass up. >:(
Quote from: MURP on April 24, 2004, 04:08:24 PM
send em to penn state.
:o Talk about wanting to watch someone suffer.
Geez, if Little is still drinking, much less drinking and driving, he has a serious problem and is going to hurt or kill someone else if he isn't stopped.
Quote from: shorebird on April 25, 2004, 10:36:18 PM
Geez, if Little is still drinking, much less drinking and driving, he has a serious problem and is going to hurt or kill someone else if he isn't stopped.
He already has once. I guess his probation expired sometime last year though. :-\
I guess I should have said somebody else besides the poor person he already has killed. It will happen agian if he isn't stopped, and he's gonna' have to be stopped because if he's still drinking after that, he can't do it himself.
Thank God he got caught before the inevitable happened again.
If killing a woman, serving time and community service, which is basically a mulligan in terms of manslaughter, and getting a chance to go earn millions of dollars playing a game again doesn't sober you up, maybe you have a problem. The problem is obviously bigger than you, so if that night out with the boys is still necessary, how hard is it to part with $300 for a driver?
Little is in the second year of a $22.5 mil, including $5 mil up front. This is roughly 20 times what an upper middle class worker in St Louis will earn in a 30 year career. A eight person stretch limo rents for roughly $60 an hour in St Louis (I checked), with 1 and 2 hour rates and night discounts available. 18 person Escalades are available for $110 an hour. His renting a limo for the night would be akin to an average person paying $15 for a driver for the night. Maybe he will have time to do this math when he sits in prison for 60 days, during his one year suspension from the NFL ... during which he will lose $3 to $4 mil, some of his fans and friends, and possibly his once in a thousand lifetime jobs.
One can only hope thats how it goes, but who knows ... he can sack a QB, and Janikowski is looking for someone to split the cost of those pricey California limos, so theres always another job ....
Quote from: Reidme on April 25, 2004, 11:18:57 PM
Maybe he will have time to do this math when he sits in prison for 60 days, during his one year suspension from the NFL ...
Little needs more than jail, especially a paltry 60 days. I believe in Maryland you can get up to a year for a second offense. He needs rehab, 6 months to a year. Jail won't do anything for this guy, after he gets out, he should be made to go through an extensive drug and alcohol rehab program.
I'm happy that the Eagles take character concerns seriously.
What's hilarious is that Terrell Owens' ranting and raving gets more press than serious brushes with the LAW by other players.
Man, doesnt this dude have any friends?
Im sure with all the money hes making he can at least PAY a cabbie or someone to drive him home
You no tolerance having, stumbling to your car havin ass muthafarga!
GET 'EM >:(
Little Indicted (http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/7429443)
Quote from: Sgt PSN on April 24, 2004, 04:59:15 PM
Quote from: MURP on April 24, 2004, 04:08:24 PM
send em to penn state.
:o Talk about wanting to watch someone suffer.
LOL!! That was funny, hey wait a minute :spank
Who cares, there go the rams, who suck anyway, but you do have to weep for the deceased family, having to see him do the same thing over again.
Another pro athlete makes a mockery of the American justice system. (http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/rams/story/6265CE5C566C090986256FDF0014CC8D?OpenDocument)
QuoteLittle's alcohol consumption that night?
"Just two beers," Little said. .......
Little refused to submit to a breath analysis test at the Ladue police station, which would have pinpointed accurately his blood-alcohol content.
After all this he has the cajones to say that he wants to privately meet with the family of the women he killed a few years ago so he can apologize. Now his apology could be completely sincere, but does he really expect them to want to see him, especially when he's coming off the heels of another DUI case?
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Little gets two years probation
By William C. Lhotka
Of the Post-Dispatch
05/06/2005
A judge sentenced Rams defensive end Leonard Little to two years of probation for driving 78 miles an hour on Highway 40 last year in Ladue.
St. Louis County Circuit Judge Emmett M. O'Brien rejected a request today by prosecutor Mark Bishop that Little get 30 days in jail as shock time. The judge told the Pro Bowl athlete that he is barred from consuming alcoholic beverages as a special condition of probation and a violation would result in a six-month jail sentence.
On April 1, a jury of 11 women and one man convicted Little of speeding, a misdemeanor, but acquitted him of driving while intoxicated, a felony. Prosecutors had charged Little with the felony because he pleaded guilty in a manslaughter case six years ago in which he admitted he was drunk, In his Lincoln Navigator, he ran a redlight downtown and collided with a car driven by Susan Gutweiler, 47, of Oakville, who was killed.
Little's 2003 Mercedes was stopped at 3:44 a.m. April, 24, 2004 on Highway 40 near Lindbergh Boulevard. Ladue police officer Gregory Stork said he clocked Little at 78 miles per hour in a 55-mph zone.Advertisement
Stork alleged that Little flunked three field sobriety tests. At Little's trial, defense attorney Scott Rosenblum put the officer on trial during three hours of cross-examination on March 31 and in closing arguments on April 1. Rosenblum said a back-up police officer contradicted Stork about Little's actions at the time of his arrest and Stork failed to follow proper procedures in administering the tests.
Bishop had argued that Little refused to take a breath analysis test at the Ladue police station because he was drunk. Little used ``the two beers defense'' that night, Bishop said. Whenever drunks are stopped by police, they, like Little. always say they had two beers, Bishop told the jury.
In sentencing Little, O'Brien told the football player: ``I'm told you do not intend to drink and drive, or consume any alcoholic beverages. If you fulfill your promise, you will have no problems.''
Remember kids, refuse the breathalyzer, and you won't be found guilty.
The system works. :yay
Quote from: DemonchildrenOnTurf on May 06, 2005, 01:29:55 PM
Remember kids, refuse the breathalyzer and be a well known professional athlete, and you won't be found guilty.
Fixed.
So how exactly does the NFL say that Playmakers wasn't like real life?
There's no film noir narrating in real life.
get little!
Now Leonard knows what it's like to have someone you love killed for no good goddamned reason.
link (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2195073)
QuoteSt. Louis Rams: The younger brother of NFL player Leonard Little was shot to death and a 17-year-old girl was taken into custody after trying to flee police Tuesday.
Investigators found Jermaine Little, 24, lying on the floor of a friend's home about 5:30 p.m. Monday in Harriman, about 40 miles east of Knoxville where his brother once starred for the University of Tennessee.
Shot once in the side, Jermaine Little died at Roane County Medical Center.
Harriman police chief Jack Stockton said there was a dispute over money. Little's girlfriend, Jessica Butcher, claimed he owed her $500. "There was a physical altercation inside the residence and something happened," Stockton said.
The suspect, who accompanied Butcher to the house, went outside to their car "and came back with a gun, allegedly, and fired one shot at the doorway," Stockton said.
Oak Ridge police spotted the suspect's vehicle, chased her until she wrecked, then caught her after she ran to her apartment. She was being held in the Anderson County Jail with charges pending.
I guess drinking while intoxicated and not paying underage prostitutes both carry some risk.
Drinking while intoxicated is bad.
If only a drunk driver got him. That would have been sweet irony.