Redick arrested on DUI charges (Another Duke athlete!)

News 14 Carolina ^ | June 13, 2006 | News 14 Carolina Web Staff

[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.

[js1138]

I suppose this means they will cancel basketball and fire the coach.

[RecallMoran]

Maybe armed MADD reps will march on campus and the women's studies department will "be listening".

[Neverforget01]

Revenue from the basketball team supports almost every other sport.

I hope that doesn't justify Duke's throwing the noise violating Lax players under the bus? Coach K says what an upstanding character JJ is but they fire the lax coach...that makes sense lol.

[RecallMoran]

Duke students had better register their cars in NC and get rid of all Duke bumper stickers/ decals. Grabbing one every chance he gets is his newest ploy for public acclaim.

[Locomotive Breath]

I'm not sure how to respond. The only apples-to-apples comparison we could have would be if three members of the Duke b'ball team were accused of gang rape. The lax team's season was demonstrably not canceled because of noise and alcohol violations because they had had violations in any number of previous years without any impact on the team as a whole.

[Neverforget01]

Why was the coach fired again? Seems to me it was for noise and alcohol violations... But JJ's character can't be impugned and the coach makes an immediate statement regarding this fine player. I'm sure they're all great kids but Duke's double standard is pretty obvious.

[Locomotive Breath]

The coach was fired because he was perceived to put the university in a negative public light and caused the President to have do some work. Instead of doing the hard work to investigate the problem, the president took the easy way out and fired the coach and canned the rest of the lax season in an attempt to appease the feminists and race baiters both inside and outside the university.

[relictele]

He's the NBA's problem now.

Right, and we can expect the NBA and/or the players' union to defend him only if marijuana was involved.

[Locomotive Breath]

And lest my earlier post wasn't clear, the lax coach was fired because the president immediately presumed that the rape allegation was true, but since it was, at that point, unproven, it was not an fireable offense. Therefore the coach was fired for something much more minor that they could prove was true. Of course, as we now know, the rape allegation will never be proven true for the simple reason it was false.

I worked 14 years as a professor at another institution of higher learning down the road from Duke (cough, NCSU, cough). Some years ago, one particular professor was caught up in a nasty divorce and his spouse learned that the professor had had an affair with one of his graduate research assistants. Sadly, that kind of thing goes on all the time. This jilted spouse decided to publicize the affair to gain leverage during the divorce or it never would have become public.

It turns out that he had used research funds to pay for both himself and this graduate student to travel to an academic conference to present results of work performed using that research funding. In other circumstances this is perfectly normal and reasonable in every respect. I did it all the time. However, it was written up the good old N&O as if he had taken some romantic junket at taxpayers expense. In a direct parallel to the Duke lax case, they found an excuse to keep this issue on the front page for weeks at a time.

NCSU wanted badly to fire this guy to make the negative coverage go away, but, ooops, it turned out he hadn't actually violated any regulations because there was no policy on the books prohibiting romantic liaisons between faculty and graduate research assistants.

So they did a complete audit of his travel records and dug up the fact that he had been to some conference and failed to report that his $600 registration fee, which he had charged to university funds, had subsequently been reimbursed by the conference. So they fired him for that instead of firing him for what they really wanted to fire him. Keep in mind that this guy made $60,000 a year and $600 was a relative nothing. (As I remarked to other faculty at the time, if I'm going to embezzle from the university, the dollar amount is going to have a lot more zeros behind it than that.) In normal circumstances this would have been handled with a reimbursement to the university and slap on the wrist.

In a directly parallel with the current Duke case, the administration failed to perform it's job by writing good policy, but no administrator was fired and the faculty member was used as a scapegoat for the negative publicity.

So even if the Duke administration said in public that it was the alcohol violations and noise, I promise you it was because he'd "allowed" one of the players to be charged with rape, regardless of whether the accusation was true.

[Guilty by Association]

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


Actually, it doesn't take much. I just checked a BAC calculator online, and an adult can register a 0.11% BAC after as little as 3 drinks.

[Red Badger]

...an adult can register a 0.11% BAC after as little as 3 drinks.

After 3 drinks I'm schnockered!............

[smug]

I'm glad somebody posted that. I'm am confussssssed (a little Lewis Black lingo) by the BAC, My wife had 2 glass's of champagne in 2 hours at a wedding reception. She's 5' 4" 150 lbs. she was rear ended leaving the party. She blew a .08, they let her go.
I, over 3 hours watching a NASCAR race at a bar had 8 beers. I'm 210 lbs. 5' 10" stopped at a seat belt checkpoint I blew a .03
Even given the size differences these results should have been juxtaposed.

[Toby06]

Schnockered--He was practically embalmed.

ROFL!!!! What ignorance! 0.11 is hardly anything. If you blew a 0.11, I'm sure you would dispute being impaired to the point you couldn't drive!

The 0.08 limit is merely another way for insurance companies to make a boatload of cash off of smoeone who is fine to drive. The .10 is kind of picky, but I wouldn't fight it, the 0.08 is ridiculous.

[trussell]

I had a friend who got snookered a couple years ago...got caught driving. BAC was .23! .08 is a joke!

[staytrue]

Duke All-American basketball player J.J. Redick

More correct is FORMER Duke All-American basketball player J.J. Redick.

Redick entered the NBA draft before this incident and has no eligibility to play college basketball. Most people think he will go in the middle of the first round.