“Ray Lewis - convicted felon and probable murderer. Paid off families of the victims.”
I’ve never seen so many Low Information football fans in my life.
He was not convicted of anything, he plead to perjury and it’s a good thing he did.
The prosecutor had nothing on anybody and was going after the guy with the most to lose.
FYI Low Information fans....8 out of 9 witnesses stated that Lewis attempted to break up the fight.
Charges dropped...Get over it and enjoy the football game.
Thank you. I would rather not have anyone with a question mark over him, but the facts don’t play out. Even if it was he, honestly it would probably be manslaughter - it was a melee and anything could happen when a group starts to fight. He certainly wasn’t going there outside a stuffed bar of partiers planning to target these people.
BTW, how many other Ravens have records? I love how glibly people accuse all the players based on 1.
“He was not convicted of anything, he plead to perjury.....”
ROFL
You should take some law courses. Before one can be sentenced, one has to be convicted, regardless of the fact the he pled down to perjury from murder. A plea deal is a plea deal. He had the victims’ blood in his car. :-)
Where’s his white suit he was wearing that night?
He (Ray Lewis) was not convicted of anything, he plead to perjury and it’s a good thing he did.
The prosecutor had nothing on anybody and was going after the guy with the most to lose.
FYI Low Information fans....8 out of 9 witnesses stated that Lewis attempted to break up the fight.
Charges dropped...Get over it and enjoy the football game.
Thank you! But actually Lewis pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of obstruction of justice not perjury. Lewis admitted he gave a misleading statement to police on the morning after the killings and was sentence to 12 months probation. As part of his plea deal, he testified against his two companions of that night, Oakley and Sweeting who were later acquitted of all charges in June of 2000 on the basis that it was self defense. Ironically if Lewis had not turned State’s evidence and copped a plea deal that led to the probation and the biggest fine ever from the NFL for a non-substance abuse violation, chances are he would have been fully acquitted just like Oakley and Sweeting.
The best anyone has pieced together is that a group of people including Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar provoked a fight with Lewis’s group and that “allegedly” someone in that group pulled a gun on Lewis and his companions. There were several other violent fights going on at the same time, BTW, it had turned into a melee. It should be noted that Baker and Lollar were not exactly choir boys themselves but then neither were Lewis or his companions at the time. Lewis evidently did try to break up the fight and get his companions into his limo but not before Oakley and or Sweeting stabbed Baker and Lollar. As they sped away from the scene of the fight, Lewis was supposed to have told Oakley and Sweeting to keep their mouths shut, fearing the repercussions to his NFL career, and the fact that the suit Lewis wore that night was never found along with his initial statements to the police, resulted in the obstruction of justice charges. Lewis did settle out of court, two civil suits related to that night, but it should be noted that settling a suit is not an admission of guilt and was probably the advisable thing for him to do from a legal perspective.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/01/23/5-common-misconceptions-about-ray-lewis-murder-trial/
Yes, Lewis admits that he was hanging with thugs, living the thug life and headed down a very bad path. But Lewis believes and says that that night was he calls his “watershed” moment and a real wakeup call, one that led him to a path to his deep religious faith and staying on the straight and narrow ever since. It should also be noted that Lewis has never since been involved in any criminal activity and is by all accounts a pretty squeaky clean guy. OK perhaps not 100% - never married, he does have six kids by four women – three by one woman, the mother to his three oldest children and his girlfriend from college and one each with the two other women but again, it needs to be stated that all those children were born prior to 2000 and that life changing night in Atlanta. It also needs to be noted that Ray Lewis doesn’t just write child support checks for his six kids but is actively involved in their lives and one of the reasons for him retiring is to spend more time with them.
Lewis also counsels young NFL players, and not just Ravens’ rookie player and countless other young men, about his mistakes and how to not make the same ones he did.
I understand why some people think Lewis got away with “murder” but the facts in evidence do not support it. I also understand why some people think Lewis’ religious convictions are phony, but again, the evidence does not support it. Whatever type of person Ray Lewis was back then (which by his own admission was bad), he is not by any and all accounts that same person today. And he says God did not send him down the wrong path, he takes all the responsibility for that, but with his life turned around, he gives God and his personal savior Jesus Christ all the credit. But some people will never forgive him for what they “think” he did and will never give him any credit for what he does and how he lives his life now.
First, Lewis plead GUILTY to Felony Obstruction, not perjury. Second, any person who pleads to any charge is convicted, period. Lewis turned state witness against his fellow thug. Lewis got away with murder, and he knows it. In the NFL it's okay to be a thug when you are a star player.