An arbitrator will get Rice his job back.He was never charged (so he was never convicted)
Maybe not this year, but it will happen.
If he completes his diversion program(often done for 1st time offenders to avoid prosecution), he’ll get his job back. Double jeopardy also applies to employment law.
I’m pretty sure he was indicted. He married his girlfriend the next day, then applied for a first offender program and was accepted. In a few months he would have a clean record with no conviction.
Yep!
The NFL is punishing Rice ‘ex post facto’ - he’s a sh*tbag, but I hope he sues the sh*t outta the NFL.
Of course, most of whatever he wins will go to his soon-to-be-ex wife.
Everyone involved in this is a scum.
From what I am reading here in Atlantic County, the prosecutor's office shouldn't have offered him acceptance into the program
He won’t get his job back. NFL teams can cut players at any time for any reason. Technically that isn’t a punishment, teams can only suspend players for 4 games, so he’s not suspended (which would be punishment) he’s just cut (no longer wanted on the team). The NFL can easily say new evidence caused them to extend the suspension, their new rule says 6 games for first offense with pluses or minuses depending on evidence. So they’re in the clean. Now he probably will be reinstated at some point, but I doubt the Ravens will pick him up, he’ll have to play the free agency game the same way Vick (who was also cut by his team and suspended by the league) did.
He will get his chance at a job back because the NFL had just announced that the maximum penalty for a first offense was six weeks.