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Redick arrested on DUI charges (Another Duke athlete!)
News 14 Carolina ^ | June 13, 2006 | News 14 Carolina Web Staff

Posted on 06/13/2006 9:18:11 AM PDT by TommyDale

DURHAM -- Duke All-American basketball player J.J. Redick was arrested Monday night on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Officers had a license checkpoint station set up in Durham Monday night at South LaSalle Street and Kangaroo Drive, near Duke Manor.

Shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday, officers said a 2005 Toyota SUV approached the checkpoint and then the driver made an illegal U-turn away from the checkpoint.

A police officer followed the Toyota, which then turned into the parking lot of the Belmont Apartments on McQueen Drive.

The driver that got out of the vehicle was J.J. Redick. Redick blew a .11 BAC after he parked his vehicle, and officers then charged him with a DUI and unsafe movement of a vehicle for the illegal U-turn.

There were several passengers in Redick's car, but their names are not known at this time.

Redick has been released on a $1,000 cash bond.


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: duke; dukelax; jjredick; redick
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Well, now! Talk about good timing...the community will be up in arms, since he is the Duke Basketball star! Does Nifong and the Durham PD have special assignments to trail all the athletes at Duke now?
1 posted on 06/13/2006 9:18:14 AM PDT by TommyDale
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". . . a 2005 Toyota SUV approached the checkpoint and then the driver made an illegal U-turn away from the checkpoint."

How can this be? I thought SUV's acted independently and on their own accord.


2 posted on 06/13/2006 9:21:42 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (If the people lead, the leaders will follow.)
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""Does Nifong and the Durham PD have special assignments to trail all the athletes at Duke now?""

My guess is yes.


3 posted on 06/13/2006 9:22:11 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (If you got Sowell, you got Soul !)
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To: TommyDale

.11 BAC!!!! He was Schnockered!........


4 posted on 06/13/2006 9:22:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
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To: TommyDale

Will Duke now cancel the Basketball season now? Fire the coach?


5 posted on 06/13/2006 9:22:52 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Arm_Bears

The driver made the U-turn. The SUV stayed there.........


6 posted on 06/13/2006 9:23:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
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"he community will be up in arms, since he is the Duke Basketball star! "

Nobody will go out of their way to defend him. DUI is a very irresponsible thing and Reddick's behavior is repherehnsable. I have no sympathy for anyone who drives drunk. And the idea that this is part of a conspiracy is beyond foolish. The DA is not having the police set up road blocks to catch Duke basketball players. That'd be the quickest way to get run out of town.
7 posted on 06/13/2006 9:24:22 AM PDT by SmoothTalker
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.11 BAC!!!! He was Schnockered!........

Nah.... He was just priming the well before heading over to the frat party.

8 posted on 06/13/2006 9:24:24 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Arm_Bears

It is well known and established that an SUV can, at will, drive itself into a tree, mow down pedestrians(women and minorities hardest hit), and roll over several times on a freeway.


9 posted on 06/13/2006 9:24:31 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (If you got Sowell, you got Soul !)
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To: Red Badger

He was double dribblin'


10 posted on 06/13/2006 9:24:34 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: TommyDale

'course if his name were Patrick Kennedy....


11 posted on 06/13/2006 9:25:51 AM PDT by meandog (If I were to draw the odious Islamic prophet Muhammad, he would have horns, a tail, and a pitchfork!)
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>>The DA is not having the police set up road blocks to catch Duke basketball players. That'd be the quickest way to get run out of town.<<

The DA is doing a fine job of getting himself run out of town, before this even happened. Heard of the Lacrosse team?


12 posted on 06/13/2006 9:26:23 AM PDT by sissyjane (Don't be stuck on stupid!)
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My point is that there is a double standard in Durham and at Duke, when it comes to the basketball team. It will be interesting how this is reported locally. I guarantee you that Reddick will be treated much better than the Lacrosse Team members!


13 posted on 06/13/2006 9:26:38 AM PDT by TommyDale
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The mug shot. FWIW this isn't even his first problem with substances. He got caught doing drugs on campus as a freshman. As a star player though this was all swept under the rug.
14 posted on 06/13/2006 9:26:39 AM PDT by SmoothTalker
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If you have not done so you must read I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS by Tom Wolfe. He's got the whole college sports/special treatment thing down.

When this book first came out I was surprised why this well known east coast darling, liberal, author was receiving such short shrift in the MSM.

Read it and find out. It's a wonderful look into the liberal's world of political correctness.


15 posted on 06/13/2006 9:27:01 AM PDT by kjo
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I don't know much about basketball stars, but I'll tell you this, if he's black it's all gonna work out; if he's white, look out.


16 posted on 06/13/2006 9:28:36 AM PDT by kjo
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Nobody will go out of their way to defend him.

Mr. Nobody Esq.

Ummmmm, odd name for a Jacoby.

17 posted on 06/13/2006 9:28:56 AM PDT by Osage Orange (The pen is mightier than the................pigs.)
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WTF?????

A college BBall player is driving a virtually new (expensive) SUV around campus?

Are the parents rich enough to afford that?

Here in Michigan, we know that sometimes a basketball player driving an exensive SUV is the start of a very long, very painful investigation to a whole lot of corruption. Let's just say that some thought that the U of M basketball prgram should've gotten the death penalty for all of the nonsense that went on during the Fab Five years.....


18 posted on 06/13/2006 9:29:51 AM PDT by TWohlford
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To: Red Badger

Aha--That wasn't clear from the article.


19 posted on 06/13/2006 9:31:25 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (If the people lead, the leaders will follow.)
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"My point is that there is a double standard in Durham and at Duke, when it comes to the basketball team. It will be interesting how this is reported locally. I guarantee you that Reddick will be treated much better than the Lacrosse Team members!"

No question. There has always been a double standard with the basketball team. You think a lacrosse player who got cheating would have been allowed to stay in school (Greg Newton)? You think a lacrosse player who was thrown off his high school team for sexual assualt would have been admitted (Sheldon Williams)? You think drug charges would have swept under the rug for a lacrosse player (JJ)? You think a lacrosse player with a 2.3 GPA and an ACT of 15 would have been let into school (Sean Dockery)? You think a lacrosse player could have got credit for a summer session he never attented (Carlos Boozer), or that the mother of a lacrosse player would get a job she was never qualified for (Duhon) and that same players little brother would get a scholarship to an elite prep school that Coach K's wife was on the board of?


20 posted on 06/13/2006 9:31:49 AM PDT by SmoothTalker
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