Being charged with 7 felonies doesn’t mean you’re going to get convicted or that a judge even finds probable cause for 7 felonies. They may have been tossed at the preliminary hearing. Prosecutor often throw whatever they can at a perp in hopes that something sticks.
Hate to say it because I was really excited when we signed him - he should transfer because Tech isn’t the best fit for him. I’m all about second chances (I’ve had a few myself in life…actually third and fourths too!). This one just doesn’t feel right.
This is your father. I’m concerned that you know so much about this.
As long as it’s not an audition!He's taking the approach of "If you want to beat the dwags, you've got to be able to think like a dwag."
@yeti92 great reply. Lots of us GT folks like to take a holier than thou attitude regarding these types of infractions. In reality is the only sin here that he got caught??!!?? As you point out, most weed is decriminalized across most jurisdictions. In reality it was just a way to incarcerate black men. Thankfully we have for the most part moved past this.
So old school in your thinking. Let's hope the AD doesn't think this way!
You guys are acting like this kid battered his pregnant girlfriend. He’s a kid and made a mistake.
How sharp a spoon were you at 18? I almost got booted from Tech before I started for drinking at FACET and then going to the Luau. I was about 2 weeks past my 18th birthday. Here we are 38 years and 2 degrees later, and I finally escaped Dean Moore's secret probation.
If it is a super speeder ticket he is under 21 and will lose his license for 6 months.
That's true but I'd like some transparency. If the prosecutor announced that the speed detection device hadn't been properly calibrated and they couldn't prove beyond reasonable doubt he was travelling 91 mph, that would be helpful. Likewise, if he said that the material found in the vehicle turned out to be a legal substance after all, once they got it back to the lab for analysis, that would be a good explanation. In the absence of explanations though all we can do is speculate. I know how I feel about the way UGA has run it's program and the number of moving violations that have happened under Kirby Smart. I also know it stinks on ice and there's a lack of transparency as to how charges simply disappear over there. I'm not saying that Petty has done anything like what happened at UGA. But I am saying that none of us know anything and unless this is all the doing of some rogue police officer or unhinged prosecutor then there must have been a good faith basis for the 7 felonies in the first place.
Probably, but we don’t know due to said non-transparency.
