for shame, ray lewis!
sheesh, there just ain't no justice.
murderer you are!(or accessory)
you kept changing your story,
and broke your promise,yet got off scot free!
your bad karma hurt your team,
and many team-"mates."(NO, I wouldn't want
you on the Giants any
more than Plaxico!yeah, LT did drugs,
but that's a victimless crime,
and murder is not.)please come clean now so
the victims' families can
at last enjoy peace.there! i spoke my piece.
my thoughts are with McGahee.
lift away his curse!(ravens fans, for shame!
worse than giants fans who gave
barry a free pass.)
The facts were these:
On January 31, 2000, Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar were fatally stabbed outside the Cobalt Lounge in Atlanta. Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, Reginald Oakley, and Joseph Sweeting (and eleven others) fled the scene in Lewis's limosine.
Multiple witnesses gave police reports naming Lewis as the murderer, but when placed on the stand, they changed their story. Another witness, Duane Fassett, contradicted his statement to police that he saw Lewis punch one of the victims and heard Oakley and Sweeting admit to stabbing in the limosine. The prosecutor, Fulton County district attorney Paul Howard, let that drop with confronting Fassett with his earlier statement. Note, Howard had not tried a case for some time and was also up for reelection that year.
Lewis himself also changed his story multiple times. Finally, in a plea bargain, he agreed to testify against Oakley and Sweeting, but then broke that promise on the stand. Oakley and Sweeting were acquitted, and Lewis got off with just one-year probation during which he was allowed to continue to play football for the Ravens. Lewis went on to win the MVP award in their 2001 Superbowl victory over the New York Giants (yes, I am a long-time New York Giants fan). Nobody else was ever convicted for the murders. More on the case at Ray Lewis Trial: 2000 and his Wikipedia entry.
My thoughts are these. Ray Lewis is likely as guilty of murder as O.J. Simpson and at the very least knows who the guilty party is but refuses to reveal them. And he got away with it because he is rich and famous and is likely to make it into pro football's Hall of Fame, and because our justice system is, let's just say, far from perfect.
In other news, last week for me sucked, but this week was much better, what with the Iggles and the Ravens losing, and ex-Giant Kurt Warner in the Superbowl against the Steelers. Them Steelers were my team in grade school when I lived in a small town forty-five minutes northeast of Pittsburgh, called Beaver (stop snickering). I vaguely remember watching them win Superbowl XIV on television.
So yeah, I'm rooting for the Steelers, although I still think it's obvious the Giants should've drafted Roethlisberger instead of making that move for Eli, so I'm a little bitter about that. But only a little, since Eli Manning did play brilliantly in the playoffs last year. :)
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