Jevon Kearse Arrested for DUI
by Air McNair 9
on Jun 22, 2008 1:41 PM CDT
Wow... not exactly the start I was hoping for the freak! It is Kearse's first offense, regardless not something I would think someone that wanted to restart their career would want attached to them. I doubt Fish will do anything probably just a slap on the wrist but we'll have to wait and see.... I wanna hear what you guys think of this....
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[UPDATE] Kearse was pulled over after 4 a.m. by Vanderbilt University police. The arresting officer said he had red, watery eyes, slurred speech and his breath smelled of alcohol. He refused a breathalyzer test.
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are we the new bengals
pacman…and his 4 billion situations….
possible steroid usage…
stomping on people’s head…
dui’s…
guns in the airport…
taking ones shirt off at a sausage fest (hahah, j/k)...
not paying child support on 329 kids (luckily we let him go at the right time)...
getting in trouble for “interference and resisting, disobedience to a lawful order and destruction of property.”...
by zackmann on Jun 22, 2008 3:28 PM CDT 0 recs
i don't think so...
we haven’t punched any coaches yet…
Go Titans!
by Pinoy Titan on Jun 22, 2008 3:37 PM CDT 0 recs
Fisher has to start cracking the whip... and pronto.
I’m not saying make an example out of Kearse, don’t confuse it with that, but Fisher has got to find some message that whips these guys back into line and puts the fear of whatever it takes in them… It’s embarrassing off the field and could start resulting in punishments that hurt their performance on the field.
/goes outside, yells at cloud
by August West on Jun 22, 2008 4:51 PM CDT 0 recs
surprised
we haven’t had more silliness this offseason. Accidental gun at airport and a DUI is pretty light fare for an average NFL team this time of year. C’mon lads, you can do better than that! What a huge letdown from the Pac era.
Seriously, this kinda DUI never ceases to amaze me. Not only is he drunk and driving in the wee hours, but he has a couple of friends in the car that thought this was an OK idea.
Hmm, maybe a group of ambitious strippers could start an alternative sober ride home business. Apparently athletes don’t like to call safe rides home, but ah – what if the safe ride home was a stripper! It’s brill I tell you, brill!
by numbertenox on Jun 22, 2008 10:11 PM CDT 0 recs
They could call themselves
Minimally Attired Designated Drivers.
by numbertenox on
Jun 23, 2008 6:39 PM CDT
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I don’t see how Goodell can do anything other give him a 4 game suspension
by JasonB on Jun 23, 2008 11:10 AM CDT 0 recs
Didn't read your own cited source did you?
“Though no official reason for the suspension was announced, it was likely for a violation of the NFL’s substance abuse policy. According to that policy, the NFL commissioner can fine or suspend a player for violation of an alcohol or drug-related law. A first offense, however, is generally a fine.”
Unless he has confidential failures, Kearse shouldn’t get 4 games.
by August West on
Jun 23, 2008 11:16 AM CDT
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Also that guy was convicted of 'extreme DUI', not just DUI.
by August West on
Jun 23, 2008 11:19 AM CDT
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Argh. Here we go...
DannoE
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Go Titans!
by DannoE on Jun 23, 2008 11:18 AM CDT 0 recs
They are trying to make themselves feel better
cause they got their ass pounded last time the Titans went to Philly.
Scoreboard.
by gramsey712 on
Jun 23, 2008 11:22 AM CDT
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Well, if it's a first offense, then he's looking at community service...
... a trip to the substance abuse program. And who knows, that might help him. If he’s got something hidden in his recrod, well, that would b e worse. But I kind’a doubt he’d have gotten $6M out of the Titans were that the case.
DannoE
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Go Titans!
by DannoE on
Jun 23, 2008 11:30 AM CDT
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Not quite
I’ve always liked Kearse and still do.
Plus, I honestly had to look up the last time the Eagles even played the Titans…
by JasonB on
Jun 23, 2008 1:53 PM CDT
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Does this mean we should start talking about Roydell Williams's leg here?
DannoE
Go read FRIDAY MAD SCIENCE at www.paperbackreader.com
Go Titans!
by DannoE on
Jun 23, 2008 2:06 PM CDT
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That was more directed at that douchecanoe (apologies August!)
troll that came over here talking trash.
Not you Jason.
I read your site. Good stuff.
by gramsey712 on
Jun 23, 2008 2:58 PM CDT
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Oh, I didn’t see that guy.
I was going to say…. I’ve always been a Titan defender! I remember arguing on the side of Vince Young on one of Stampede Blue’s anti VY posts! LOL
by JasonB on
Jun 23, 2008 3:19 PM CDT
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is the law in tenn mandatory 2 days in jail?
I thought I saw a public service announcement on TV (heck, might have even had Jeff Fisher in it) that said that a DUI in tennessee now includes a mandatory 2 days in jail….
by zackmann on Jun 23, 2008 9:15 PM CDT 0 recs
I believe so...
for a first offense, anyway, the minimum punishment is 2 days in jail and license suspension for a year.
by hartley on
Jun 24, 2008 8:27 AM CDT
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but refusing the Breathalyzer, especially if he refused the blood test,
will make it easier to get the charged reduces to something like ‘reckless driving’, which only carries a suspended license for a year and some fines
by August West on
Jun 24, 2008 8:54 AM CDT
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I thought if you refused the Breathalyzer
then it was implied consent and it was basically pleading guilty?
Preferably I won’t ever need to make that decision.
I’ll just call numbertenox’s MADD!
by gramsey712 on
Jun 24, 2008 9:21 AM CDT
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I believe you're consenting to having your license taken away for a year automatically
but not to the actual DUI charge
by August West on
Jun 24, 2008 10:01 AM CDT
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still though
the fact that fisher is so prominently involved in dui commercials is very ironic….
by zackmann on Jun 24, 2008 1:23 PM CDT 0 recs
Yawn...
Unbelievable how insane everyone gets because the guy drove drunk through the empty sleepy streets of Nashville at 4:30 in the morning…
The only other person on the streets of Nashville at that time was probably the cop who wouldn’t cut the athlete some slack. I hope somebody slaps that cop upside the head for messing with the harmony of our offseason. Some people do deserve special treatment – and somebody forgot to tell that bitter, underpaid, university campus rent-a-cop that he should stick to preventing freshman girls from getting raped in the bushes and leave our Titans alone.
Unbelievable that he needs to go to jail for 2 days. What a clusterf*ck of a situation.
by BeansCarter on Jun 24, 2008 4:35 PM CDT 0 recs
i'm offended
that you think being a football player excludes you from the same laws we all have to live by…..
last week in memphis (at around 4:30 in the morning) someone was driving drunk, got going the wrong way on I-55 and ran head on to someone….of course the drunk dude walked away virtually unscathed, while the innocent, law abiding citizen died…
by zackmann on
Jun 24, 2008 8:55 PM CDT
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ok
Sounds like a horrible accident. Must have been a real imbecile to be driving the wrong direction on a highway. The loss of life is nothing but a tragedy.
It’s not because someone blows over 0.08 that they drive like idiots. An idiot is an idiot independantly of that fact. Our paternalistic laws target the lowest common denominator, and i stand by my assertion that Jevon would probably not have caused an issue at 4:30 in Nashville. I don’t think putting him in jail for a couple of days will achieve anything. Furthermore, the fat that he is not entitled to privacy over this issue is disgusting.
Don’t misinterpret the legal system as an authority on morality or risk. We are better served by being more evolved than that.
by BeansCarter on
Jun 24, 2008 11:11 PM CDT
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You never cease to amaze me Beans
So if he would have been driving drunk at 9 p.m. that would be different? What time does it become ok to hit the streets drunk?
Titans Blogger at Music City Miracles
by Jimmy on
Jun 25, 2008 7:52 AM CDT
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Yes
At 9pm, it is more dangerous to drive drunk then at 4:30am. At what time does it become ok to hit the streets drunk? I don’t know; I’m not one of these people who sees the world in absolute terms. It depends. It’s probably never safe to drive drunk. But it is safer to drive drunk when there are fewer moving targets, and that’s a fact. Then again, it’s actually not all that safe to drive a big steel machine at 60 miles per hour. I’m surprised the government doesn’t force everyone to ride bicycles and subway trains… that would be a novel way to control our own ability to hurt ourselves, wouldn’t it?
I think our Titans deserve special treatment from Vanderbilt campus security…perhaps a warning… maybe forcing Kearse to get in a cab and leaving his car on the side of the road. That would have been appropriate. Instead, the cop felt the need to humiliate a local sports hero by bookng him which inevitably would lead to his mugshot being pasted all over ESPN, Fox Sports, the NFL Network, etc…
The punishment doesn’t fit the crime, that’s the bottom line.
by BeansCarter on
Jun 25, 2008 4:57 PM CDT
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puh lease
Even at 4:30 a.m. there are lots of immovable objects around that you can kill yourself and/or your passengers with if you are driving around sauced up. It’s never OK, it’s against the law, and it doesn’t matter who you are or who the police force is stopping you. The VU cops did exactly what they were supposed to, and Jevon was doing something he absolutely shouldn’t have. Do the crime, do the time.
by numbertenox on
Jun 25, 2008 8:12 PM CDT
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It's good to have mindless sheep as citizens, isn't it?
Never question authority – Assume the law is correct, and if the government tells you that something is wrong, or more precisely how wrong something is, you should agree with them fully…
That’s fine – you can think that way, that’s your business. I prefer to think for myself.
by BeansCarter on
Jun 26, 2008 11:56 AM CDT
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That's ridiculous Beans
Come on—you don’t really think drunk driving is OK do you? Really?
Really?
I thought at first you were just stirring the pot, but that whole “question authority” thing is ridiculous.
by gramsey712 on
Jun 26, 2008 12:56 PM CDT
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No
I never said driving drunk is ok. Why does eveyone here insist on erroneously paraphrasing my points of view as one-dimensional, simplistic and basically idiotic statements.
I said that driving drunk at 4:30 in the morning when the only person Kearse was likely to hurt was himself, does not warrant public humiliation and jail time.
Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I don’t just accept blindly that the legal system and the government “got it right”.
by BeansCarter on
Jun 26, 2008 1:25 PM CDT
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Leonard Little also didn't think he would cause an accident at 4 am, either.
by gramsey712 on
Jun 26, 2008 1:35 PM CDT
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Cute comment
But I challenge you to find one link on the internet that says Leonard Little’s accident happened at 4 in the morning.
In any case, I am a big believer that people who actually cause accidents while driving drunk should be seriously punished. As far as I know Kearse didn’t cause an accident.
by BeansCarter on
Jun 26, 2008 2:04 PM CDT
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I don't like to call things dumb,
but that is dumb. You cannot say that people shouldn’t be punished unless they cause an accident. Should attempted murder no longer be a charge in our court system. They didn’t actually murder the person you know.
Titans Blogger at Music City Miracles
by Jimmy on
Jun 26, 2008 2:53 PM CDT
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When did I say that...
People should not be punished unless they cause an accident?
The Leonard Little comparison is too harsh. Little actually killed someone.
To recap:
In the Kearse case I don’t think the punishment fits the crime for the following reasons:
1. As a celebrity, he not only gets the typical criminal punishment but along with it he gets publicly humiliated… in other words the punishment is harsher for him than it would be for you or I.
2. He was driving around at 4:30 in the morning, when basically nobody is on the roads. As a result the only person he would have likely hurt would have been himself, had he gotten into an accident. To me, this is less wrong than driving drunk in the afternoon. It doesn’t matter how much less wrong it is, but since the whole point of drunk driving laws is to reduce the level of risk on the roads, if the level of risk is lower because the roads are empty, the punishment should be less severe. Could this be implemented as policy? I’ll admit, not really, but at the end of the day the cops have the ability to exercise judgment.
3. Kearse deserves special treatment because he is a) a Titan, b) a well -liked celebrity who is probably more effective at doing community service without a shattered reputation, and the cop (who, I am assuming knew who Kearse was) should have immediately known that in this case, it probably did not serve the greater good to charge the driver.
The cop should have put Kearse in a cab and given him a stern warning.
As far as your attempted murder argument, that’s pretty weak. Crime requires mens rea, or rather the “intent” to commit a crime.
People don’t intend to get into accidents if they happen to drive drunk. The crime of drunk driving is a misnomer. People don’t intend to drive drunk. Their intent is usually to go home.
by BeansCarter on
Jun 26, 2008 4:17 PM CDT
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But they intend
to get their by driving drunk. So their intent is to drive and doing so drunk is a crime. I usually try to stay out of this nonsense. Shame on me for getting caught up.
Titans Blogger at Music City Miracles
by Jimmy on
Jun 26, 2008 4:22 PM CDT
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ok.
let me ask you something Jimmy.
Do you personally feel that Jevon deserves 2 days in jail, deserves to lose his license for a year, deserves public censure, and deserves to pay a hefty fine?
Is that the appropriate punishment?
by BeansCarter on
Jun 26, 2008 7:02 PM CDT
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1. 2 days in city lock-up isn't hell on earth... or so i hear
2. losing your license isn’t a big deal when you’ve made the money he’s made
3. The public has already forgiven him
4. worried about a fine? see point number 2
by August West on
Jun 27, 2008 8:47 AM CDT
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also, the reason he refused the Breathalyzer/BAC test
is because that makes it much easier to plead down to a lesser charge, in which case he’d just get a fine and his license would be suspended for refusing to take the test.
by August West on
Jun 27, 2008 8:49 AM CDT
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I would argue
that the punishment actually would be harsher for me
Cause I can’t afford the thousands of dollars for a lawyer and the thousands of dollars for a fine or to hire someone to drive me around.
Jevon can do that without even noticing.
A little harassment from the trolls on the Tennessean website probably really doesn’t bother him.
by gramsey712 on
Jun 26, 2008 4:38 PM CDT
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oh ok
now we’re just name calling. nice. very mature.
actually i have a very deep seated distrust of authority, bordering on paranoia, but in this case i happen to believe that driving around stinking drunk is a kinda bad idea – and yes spending some time in the slammer for it isn’t beyond the pale.
so I don’t just “blindly accespt that the legal system…. got it right”. It’s just that in this case I do think they got it mostly right. And since you’re the only one posting here that seems to think otherwise, maybe it’s your viewpoint that’s mindless and not ours.
baaaa.
by numbertenox on
Jun 26, 2008 9:09 PM CDT
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maybe...just maybe
my viewpoint is “mindless”. But now we’ve both resorted to insults.
Wait until the season starts, that’s when I’ll really get into some non-concensus views.
We’ll find away to get religion and politics into the fray and see if we can everyone fired up around here.
Man I miss football.
by BeansCarter on
Jun 27, 2008 9:07 AM CDT
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Man I miss football.
Well there’s something I agree with you on!
by numbertenox on
Jun 27, 2008 7:52 PM CDT
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uhh
I wouldnt consider us the bengals the only wrong choice id say weve made was pacman.
lots of ppl get dui’s kearse has never had any character problems in his career albert haynseworth has put that behind him that incident turned around his career vince was just being a young person and chillin with some patron and travis henry is just someone who should be neutered for the most part we are a stable team fowler though hes connected doesnt mean he uses them hes not even that good really so obviously there not working if he is taking them
by titans on Jun 25, 2008 4:19 PM CDT 0 recs
This discussion thread....
has become the most entertaining post-NFL draft. I wish this would continue til pre-season.
Go Titans!
by Pinoy Titan on Jun 28, 2008 12:10 AM CDT 0 recs
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