Mazi Smith making headlines for all the wrong reasons

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1st team All-B1G DT Mazi Smith was arrested in October for a concealed weapon charge. For 'some reason' the charges weren't filed until today.

They haven't released much info and I don't know much about weapon charges, but it says it could be a felony charge he gets?

BUT we beat Ohio State, so who cares:hide:
 
As I said in the B10 thread, it's a concealed weapons charge....but in Michigan it's considered conceal carry to improperly transport your firearm in a car and that seems to be what netted him the charge....not carrying around a concealed firearm on your person. Unless you have a CPL you have to carry your firearm unloaded in some sort of case separated from the ammo. It sounds like he didn't do that, and while the firearm was totally legal, it netted him this charge. There's also some rumors about him having a CPL that expired, which is why he wasn't initially arrested the day of.

Anyway, it's a non-violent crime and IMO a stupid crime to begin with. Which is why Emoni Bates was basically let off, and playing again, when he was arrested for the same thing earlier this year.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
As I said in the B10 thread, it's a concealed weapons charge....but in Michigan it's considered conceal carry to improperly transport your firearm in a car and that seems to be what netted him the charge....not carrying around a concealed firearm on your person. Unless you have a CPL you have to carry your firearm unloaded in some sort of case separated from the ammo. It sounds like he didn't do that, and while the firearm was totally legal, it netted him this charge. There's also some rumors about him having a CPL that expired, which is why he wasn't initially arrested the day of.

Anyway, it's a non-violent crime and IMO a stupid crime to begin with. Which is why Emoni Bates was basically let off, and playing again, when he was arrested for the same thing earlier this year.
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If he had a CPL then he should have known the law.
 
fordman84 said:
If he had a CPL then he should have known the law.
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Sure. It was certainly stupid. But something is odd because he wasn't arrested the day of and charges took a month an a half to file. And while it's unfortunate that its' a felony, my guess is that he isn't actually convicted of one (he probably pleads way down or the charges get dropped). It's hard to not just brush this off, and easy to see probably why it has been, because of how stupid the law is to begin with. I can take a rifle and handgun, load them up, throw it over my shoulder, strap the handgun to my belt, and (without a CPL) walk legally down main street in ann arbor. But someone carrying their legal firearm in their glovebox is a felony just because it's in their car. Dumb laws are dumb.
 
Michigan fans would be throwing a hissy fit about how "Ohio State only cares about winning!" if this same situation went down for us. Player commits' a felony and then is just allowed to play all season, while said situation is just swept under the rug until it eventually gets outed by some paper.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
Michigan fans would be throwing a hissy fit about how "Ohio State only cares about winning!" if this same situation went down for us. Player commits' a felony and then is just allowed to play all season, while said situation is just swept under the rug until it eventually gets outed by some paper.
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I don't know Ohio gun laws to know if there's a similarly applicable situation where the law itself is just kind of dumb.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
Michigan fans would be throwing a hissy fit about how "Ohio State only cares about winning!" if this same situation went down for us. Player commits' a felony and then is just allowed to play all season, while said situation is just swept under the rug until it eventually gets outed by some paper.
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inb4 tattoos are discussed.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
Michigan fans would be throwing a hissy fit about how "Ohio State only cares about winning!" if this same situation went down for us. Player commits' a felony and then is just allowed to play all season, while said situation is just swept under the rug until it eventually gets outed by some paper.
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In fairness, the Ohio State player would probably try to argue that they had it for defense, which everyone would know was bullshit since Ohio State doesn’t do defense.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
I don't know Ohio gun laws to know if there's a similarly applicable situation where the law itself is just kind of dumb.
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Blaming the law instead of the player for not following the law, or not knowing the law he should know if hes going to carry. Good approach.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
Michigan fans would be throwing a hissy fit about how "Ohio State only cares about winning!" if this same situation went down for us. Player commits' a felony and then is just allowed to play all season, while said situation is just swept under the rug until it eventually gets outed by some paper.
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If we had lost to Ohio State -- I'd be calling for Mazi's head. Since we won -- he gets a pass on this felony charge. Next one though, we are really going to slap him hard on the wrist.
 
Just released, Warde and Harbaugh's comments. Seems like both think this is a non issue. So it's hard to not also take that stance:
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Lots of dumb laws on the books. Not an excuse for breaking them. Also the optics of the delayed filing are terrible.

I think meatchiken should get a bowl ban. :pop2:
 
fordman84 said:
Lots of dumb laws on the books. Not an excuse for breaking them. Also the optics of the delayed filing are terrible.

I think meatchiken should get a bowl ban. :pop2:
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Exactly. If they woulda just handled it right then it wouldnt had been a very big deal.

The fact that they let it slide through the season and are just now getting around to it is a bad look for everyone involved.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
Blaming the law instead of the player for not following the law, or not knowing the law he should know if hes going to carry. Good approach.
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Speaks loudly to one’s character - “Robbing banks and murder are crimes in
my state, dumb laws!”
 
osubuckeye89 said:
Exactly. If they woulda just handled it right then it wouldnt had been a very big deal.

The fact that they let it slide through the season and are just now getting around to it is a bad look for everyone involved.
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I guess I'd want to know what would be "handling it right". The kid wasn't even charged until today. So you'd want the staff to, what?, suspend the kid for the rest of the season for a traffic stop where he wasn't charged with anything?
 
Huskers4me said:
Speaks loudly to one’s character - “Robbing banks and murder are crimes in
my state, dumb laws!”
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There's actually a legal term for this; jury nullification. Essentially admitting that they person broke the law but that the law itself is the problem.
 
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