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CONFIRMED: PSU football players in trouble

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This is clearly a case of Arrested Player Development.

I blame the coaches.

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On a serious note I find this simply bizarre: FOS (Scout)
There is no word on when or if Penn State's office of Judicial Affairs will look into the matter. If it does, however, it will find an extremely complicated situation, one where there is plenty of talk of violent conflict yet where no felony assault charges have been filed.
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FOS Board brings out their dead.

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Posted on 4/27/2007 12:56 PM
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The charges are going to be dropped BECAUSE if they are not, the kids living in that apartment and any one associated with filing the charges life is over… at least at Penn State .

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I sure hope so!!
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per ESPN
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Six Penn State football players, including stars Anthony Scirrotto and Justin King, turned themselves in Friday to face charges that they barged into a party and started a violent fight at an off-campus apartment earlier this month.
Each player faces at least one felony count of criminal trespass. Scirrotto, a safety, faces the most serious charges, including two other felonies -- burglary and criminal solicitation.
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Both current and former Penn State football players have had two serious run-ins with the law in 2007.

All six defendants were arraigned Friday and released on unsecured bail.
Police said Scirrotto and his girlfriend got into an altercation with three men on a street in State College and followed them to an apartment building. He called his brother and some friends to join him, but they weren't immediately let into the party, police said.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2851235
 
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Friznitz5 wrote: Burglary?
IMO, these seem like ultra trumped charges for a freaking fight. Anyone with judicial system experience care to weigh in?
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Burglary doesn't need to involve any sort of theft, all it involves is entering another person's property without permission.

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true....but how many people walk into apartment parties, house parties, and frat parties EVERY WEEKEND AT PENN STATE. yes i understand that the situation is a little different, but if these guys are guilty of burglary, then so is half the student body at penn state!!
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Burgulary - (old definition) Breaking and entering in to the house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony therein.

trumped up party-going? What idiots.
 
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The State Penn 6 were formally charged today.

6 Penn State football players charged with felonies
By Kevin Horan & Corey McLaughlin, Daily Collegian
April 30, 2007 (U-WIRE) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- An elevator outside the Pennsylvania State University police office chimed open around 10:20 Friday morning, revealing six Penn State football players who were to be charged with felonies for their alleged involvement in an off-campus fight.
Two attorneys stepped out. One held open the door to the university police office, and the other ushered six men, many of them with their heads bowed, into the office. First Tyrell Sales, then Chris Baker, Jerome Hayes, Anthony Scirrotto, Lydell Sargeant and finally Justin King filed swiftly through the door marked "Authorized Personnel Only."
Two players, rising junior safety Scirrotto and redshirt sophomore defensive tackle Baker, are charged with burglary -- a first-degree felony -- for allegedly forcing their way into a third-floor apartment shortly after midnight April 1. Police said the fight at the Meridian II stemmed from an earlier street confrontation on the corner of High Street and College Avenue. Two students, Bernd H. Imle and Thomas D. Skalamera, who are not football players, have been charged in connection with the street altercation.

Scirrotto is also charged with criminal trespass, simple assault, harassment and two counts of criminal solicitation, while Baker is also charged with criminal trespass, simple assault, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and harassment.
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Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira said those convicted of first-degree felony burglary generally face a prison term of 12 to 24 months. Sentences for persons convicted of criminal trespass, criminal solicitation, simple assault or criminal mischief typically range from probation to one to three months in prison, Madeira said.
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Tom King said he had contacted someone within the athletic department on Thursday to discuss the charges but declined to say whom.
A resident of the apartment said he was content with the decision.
"I was relieved that it was handled professionally," said Kevin Sanders, a sophomore in political science. "Because if [there were players] there, and they didn't do anything, I wouldn't want them to be falsely charged. ... It's good that the system worked."
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Preliminary hearing is today.

Cook: Working at home not the answer for Paterno, PSU

Friday, May 04, 2007
By Ron Cook, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
No State Penn jokes here this morning, promise.
The latest criminal news involving Penn State football players is too sad to ridicule for a couple of reasons:
One, the six players who face a preliminary hearing today because of an April 1 incident in State College -- including starting safety Anthony Scirrotto and cornerback Justin King -- didn't just let down their families and teammates. They let down their old coach. This nonsense is the last thing Joe Paterno needs at 80.
And two, Paterno maybe, just maybe, could have done more to prevent the trouble. Does he really have his finger on the pulse of his team working at home? Is there any other coach in any other major college sport who gets away with that? Is that in the best interests of the Penn State program? The players? Even Paterno?



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The hearing has started and could last all day.

Penn St. players appear in court over roles in off-campus fight

5/4/2007, 9:04 a.m. ET By GENARO C. ARMAS
The Associated Press
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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) ? Penn State football player Anthony Scirrotto and five teammates arrived at an off-campus apartment just after midnight April 1, less than an hour after Scirrotto had a confrontation with three men on a street corner, police said.
A fight ensued inside the apartment in which a handful of students were struck, punched or kicked, including two victims treated at a hospital, police said.
Scirrotto and his teammates, who were arrested last week, were in court Friday for a preliminary hearing over their roles in the off-campus fracas.
Scirrotto, a starting safety, and reserve defensive tackle Chris Baker face the most serious charges, including one count each of burglary and criminal trespass, both felonies. Each also faces a count of simple assault and harassment.
Facing one count each of criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and harassment are standout starting cornerback Justin King and three reserves, linebackers Jerome Hayes and Tyrell Sales and defensive back Lydell Sargeant.
Several of the players looked at ease before the hearing started, talking quietly and exchanging hugs in the rear of the Centre County courtroom. Dozens of witnesses, including other Penn State players, were also expected to testify at a hearing that could last all day.



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The thrust of that Cook article will be ugly music to the ears of many in the Lions faithful -- that Paterno is an out of touch figurehead:

This time, Paterno is wrong.
Maybe it's unrealistic and foolish to suggest that Paterno somehow could have prevented the incident with Scirrotto, King and the others. But it's not off base to say there's much more to coaching than looking at tape in the privacy of your den.
Coaching is about dealing with people -- coaches and players -- not about hiding from distractions. Paterno should know that better than anyone.
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Charges against Justin King are dropped.

Justin King's charges dropped as PSU players appear in court

Posted by The Patriot-News May 04, 2007 10:39AM

Categories: Breaking News, Midstate, Sports
Prosecutors say they are dropping charges against Justin King, one of six Penn State football players involved in an off-campus fracas last month.
King, 19, a standout starting cornerback from Pittsburgh, had been charged with criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and harassment, but prosecutors said they were dropping him from the case without indicating why. All six players were in a Centre County courtroom this morning for a preliminary hearing over their roles in the April 1 fight at an apartment, Genaro C. Armas of The Associated Press reports.




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