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Not only did they contemplate that right, but we must also realize that George Washington was a known hatchet bearer!
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Precisely. Maurice admits that he did, in fact, chop down a cherry tree with his hatchet, but that is all. And if choppin down a cherry tree is wrong, I don't want to be right!
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If the bulletproof vest doesn't fit, you MUST acquit!
*psst...Maurice.....eat some more food, dammit! We gots to get you to an XXL before tomorrow*
*psst...Maurice.....eat some more food, dammit! We gots to get you to an XXL before tomorrow*
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Clarett receives threatening postcard
8/15/2006, 6:50 p.m. ETBy RUSTY MILLER
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A typewritten, "cryptic" threat against Maurice Clarett was sent to the law office representing the jailed former Ohio State football star, his attorney said Tuesday.
The message, sent from Los Angeles and received Monday, was typed on a piece of paper, cut out and taped on a postcard, said Michael Hoague, one of Clarett's attorneys. He said Clarett has received threats before, but did not detail what was written in this one.
"We don't know quite what to make of it," Hoague said. "It's very cryptic."
Clarett was arrested last week following a police chase near the home of a woman set to testify against him in a January robbery. Four loaded guns were found in his sport utility vehicle, and officers said they had to use pepper spray to subdue him because he was wearing a bullet-proof vest that thwarted their stun guns.
A judge handling the robbery case said he will most likely issue a gag order on Clarett and his attorneys because of all the national media coverage the case has received.
"This case will be tried in the courtroom and not in some newspaper or radio station or TV station or in some national publication," Judge David Fais said. He expected to make a decision in the next few days.
Assistant prosecutor Doug Stead requested the order, accusing defense attorneys of talking to reporters too much.
The judge hastily summoned Clarett and attorneys from both sides to his courtroom Tuesday afternoon after the sheriff's office notified Fais that a reporter was planning to visit Clarett. During the hearing, Clarett's attorneys withdrew the request for their client to meet with the reporter.
Clarett had been set for trial Monday on charges accusing him of robbing two people of a cell phone outside a bar early on New Year's Day. The judge delayed the trial and ordered a mental evaluation over the objections of Clarett and his attorneys following his arrest Aug. 9 on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon.
Clarett, who scored the winning touchdown for the Buckeyes in the 2002 national championship game, is jailed without bond.
"He's been in very good spirits," Hoague said. "He's basically sitting in his cell, doing sit-ups and push-ups and reading the Bible, all day long."
During a 10-minute court appearance Tuesday, Clarett, wearing standard-issue jail clothing, was permitted to enter the courtroom without handcuffs. At the end of the hearing, he turned and raised his hand to greet his mother and girlfriend who were sitting a few feet behind the defense table.
His mother, Michelle Clarett, declined to comment.
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Former Ohio State football star Maurice Clarett and attorneys likely will be banned from talking to the Columbus, Ohio, media, judge David Fais said.
''This case will be tried in the courtroom and not in some newspaper or radio station or TV station or in some national publication,'' Fais said.
Also, in response to claims by Clarett's attorneys that pepper spray was used after he was handcuffed, police spokeswoman Betty Schwab said, ``We absolutely believe the officers acted within their guidelines.''
Clarett receives threatening postcard
8/15/2006, 6:50 p.m. ETBy RUSTY MILLER
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A typewritten, "cryptic" threat against Maurice Clarett was sent to the law office representing the jailed former Ohio State football star, his attorney said Tuesday.
The message, sent from Los Angeles and received Monday, was typed on a piece of paper, cut out and taped on a postcard, said Michael Hoague, one of Clarett's attorneys. He said Clarett has received threats before, but did not detail what was written in this one.
"We don't know quite what to make of it," Hoague said. "It's very cryptic."
Clarett was arrested last week following a police chase near the home of a woman set to testify against him in a January robbery. Four loaded guns were found in his sport utility vehicle, and officers said they had to use pepper spray to subdue him because he was wearing a bullet-proof vest that thwarted their stun guns.
A judge handling the robbery case said he will most likely issue a gag order on Clarett and his attorneys because of all the national media coverage the case has received.
"This case will be tried in the courtroom and not in some newspaper or radio station or TV station or in some national publication," Judge David Fais said. He expected to make a decision in the next few days.
Assistant prosecutor Doug Stead requested the order, accusing defense attorneys of talking to reporters too much.
The judge hastily summoned Clarett and attorneys from both sides to his courtroom Tuesday afternoon after the sheriff's office notified Fais that a reporter was planning to visit Clarett. During the hearing, Clarett's attorneys withdrew the request for their client to meet with the reporter.
Clarett had been set for trial Monday on charges accusing him of robbing two people of a cell phone outside a bar early on New Year's Day. The judge delayed the trial and ordered a mental evaluation over the objections of Clarett and his attorneys following his arrest Aug. 9 on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon.
Clarett, who scored the winning touchdown for the Buckeyes in the 2002 national championship game, is jailed without bond.
"He's been in very good spirits," Hoague said. "He's basically sitting in his cell, doing sit-ups and push-ups and reading the Bible, all day long."
During a 10-minute court appearance Tuesday, Clarett, wearing standard-issue jail clothing, was permitted to enter the courtroom without handcuffs. At the end of the hearing, he turned and raised his hand to greet his mother and girlfriend who were sitting a few feet behind the defense table.
His mother, Michelle Clarett, declined to comment.
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Former Ohio State football star Maurice Clarett and attorneys likely will be banned from talking to the Columbus, Ohio, media, judge David Fais said.
''This case will be tried in the courtroom and not in some newspaper or radio station or TV station or in some national publication,'' Fais said.
Also, in response to claims by Clarett's attorneys that pepper spray was used after he was handcuffed, police spokeswoman Betty Schwab said, ``We absolutely believe the officers acted within their guidelines.''
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NO MORE INTERVIEWS
Judge limiting access to Clarett; gag order coming
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Bruce Cadwallader
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
</IMG> Maurice Clarett, in custody awaiting trial on a robbery charge, can have visits only from family, doctors, clergy and lawyers.
The judge handling Maurice Clarett’s aggravated robbery trial said yesterday that he’ll issue a gag order after learning that Clarett planned to talk with a reporter from GQ magazine.
The judge has now limited access to the former Ohio State football player.
Clarett is in the Downtown Franklin County jail, awaiting trial on a robbery charge. He also is facing a weapons charge after an arrest last week.
He and his lawyers had agreed to meet with GQ reporter Robert Draper, who came to Columbus yesterday for the interview.
Jail officials usually allow media access to inmates if they and their counsel agree. Draper said he had been working with Clarett and his family "for several months."
But Common Pleas Judge David W. Fais called an afternoon hearing to say he is becoming increasingly concerned about the publicity the case is garnering, including pieces over the weekend in The New York Times and USA Today.
Clarett’s robbery trial is set to begin Sept. 18. He is charged with seven felony counts in connection with the armed robbery of two people Jan. 1 in a Downtown alley.
Assistant County Prosecutor Doug Stead requested the gag order, something that’s rarely done in a criminal case in Franklin County.
"I don’t believe I can control Mr. Clarett, but I do believe the court can order the attorneys not to speak to the media," Stead said. "I’m concerned every time I pick up a newspaper, I read quotes from opposing counsel and I don’t believe it’s productive to the resolution of this case in a fair and timely matter."
At the judge’s request, defense attorneys Michael L. Hoague and Dominic Mango canceled the GQ interview, but they complained they have a right to answer charges against their client when questioned by media.
"We believe there has been misinformation in this case. Without an opportunity to rebut those accounts, obviously we think it would be unfair and further prejudicial to Mr. Clarett," Mango said.
Fais said he’ll issue the gag order to both sides by next week "to curtail discussion about this case on its merits."
Fais also ordered jail deputies to limit Clarett’s visitors to family and clergy members, his girlfriend, physicians and his two attorneys.
That’s also seldom done.
"I’ve never seen one issued by our court in my years," said Chief Deputy Mark J. Barrett, supervisor of the county jail.
Among Clarett’s recent visitors was Kristen Haskins, the court-appointed psychologist who has been given the task of creating a mental-health report about Clarett.
Fais ordered the evaluation over the objections of Clarett’s attorneys because of the arrest last Wednesday. Columbus police say Clarett, 22, wearing a bulletproof vest and with a gun under his leg, tried to elude them in a car chase on the Far East Side.
Though Mango said earlier this week that he would be "shocked" if there weren’t video of the arrest, Columbus police asserted again yesterday that no police video exists.
Dispatch reporter Theodore Decker contributed to this story. [email protected]
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REMEMBERING CLARETT: Dantonio, who was the defensive coordinator at Ohio State during the 2002 season when then-freshman running back Maurice Clarett helped the Buckeyes win the national championship, said Clarett apparently was a different person off the field than he was on it.
Clarett was arrested last week after Columbus police found four loaded guns in his sport utility vehicle.
"Between the lines, the guy did everything," Dantonio said. "He learned tailback and fullback. He learned all the pass protections. He earned the right to play. But like young people, especially at Ohio State, where you're inundated with all the press and everything, I think they start thinking of themselves as bigger than life, and nobody's bigger than the program."
It's too bad," Dantonio said, "because there's a guy who had a great future. Right now, his future doesn't look too good."
REMEMBERING CLARETT: Dantonio, who was the defensive coordinator at Ohio State during the 2002 season when then-freshman running back Maurice Clarett helped the Buckeyes win the national championship, said Clarett apparently was a different person off the field than he was on it.
Clarett was arrested last week after Columbus police found four loaded guns in his sport utility vehicle.
"Between the lines, the guy did everything," Dantonio said. "He learned tailback and fullback. He learned all the pass protections. He earned the right to play. But like young people, especially at Ohio State, where you're inundated with all the press and everything, I think they start thinking of themselves as bigger than life, and nobody's bigger than the program."
It's too bad," Dantonio said, "because there's a guy who had a great future. Right now, his future doesn't look too good."
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scooter1369
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The dude misspelled it on the pic. duh.
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ESPN just said Clarett may have ties to organized crime in Calif. and that Clarett owes some ganster(?) money.
It's hard to decide wether to cry or laugh at him. All this for the 8 games he played.
ESPN just said Clarett may have ties to organized crime in Calif. and that Clarett owes some ganster(?) money.
It's hard to decide wether to cry or laugh at him. All this for the 8 games he played.
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Lawyer: Clarett has ties to alleged Israeli mobster
ESPN.com
Maurice Clarett was bankrolled by an alleged member of an Israeli crime organization after leaving Ohio State, ESPN has learned, and Clarett's attorney said Thursday that his client may have been in possession of firearms last week to protect himself against mob activity.
Clarett's attorney, Nick Mango, said Thursday that Clarett has repeatedly received death threats over the past year but that a cryptic postcard sent from Los Angeles last week has him wondering about Clarett's ties to an alleged mob enforcer.
In the late summer of 2004, ESPN has learned, Clarett traveled to Los Angeles and was introduced by a rapper friend to Hai Waknine, 35, a convicted felon who prosecutors believe is a member of an Israeli crime organization called The Jerusalem Group. Waknine, who at the time was being indicted on extortion and money-laundering charges, became Clarett's sponsor and adviser, along with Waknine's attorney, David Kenner. Waknine provided Clarett with cash, a BMW, bodyguards, drivers and beachfront lodging in Malibu, with the understanding that he would be reimbursed and receive 60 percent of Clarett's rookie contract.
But when Clarett was released by the Denver Broncos in August 2005, he was unable to pay Waknine back, and ESPN has learned that Waknine eventually cut off Clarett financially. Clarett moved back to his hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, that fall.
After Clarett was arrested last week, allegedly wearing a bulletproof vest and possessing four guns and a hatchet, Clarett's attorneys received an anonymous phone call alerting them to Clarett's ties to Wakine. They grew more suspicious when they received the threatening postcard this week.
Mango said he is concerned that postcard, sent to his law office, may have come from Waknine.
"That's our question, whether it's from him or people associated with that scene out there," Mango told ESPN. "Again, it came from Los Angeles, and we don't know what to make of that. ... We're going to turn this over to someone in law enforcement and see what they think [of the postcard]. ... We've always felt he had some reasons to fear for his safety, and we don't think any of his actions the night he was arrested -- despite the way it's been spun -- were that he was a threat to anyone else but more of him being in fear for his safety for quite some time."
Mango also said he believes Clarett's debt may have something to do with the threats.
"I believe he owes [Waknine] money, and I think [Waknine] is probably not the only one" he owes, Mango said. "Whether it's someone all the way on that coast or more on this side of the country; it's no one that I'd want to owe money to. ... A call came to our office [about Waknine], kind of giving us a rumored story. It's been kind of tossed around by us, and quite frankly, Youngstown has quite a reputation -- if you don't know it already -- for the Italian side of that ballgame. And everyone here thought, 'Well, you wonder with money changing hands ...' Having heard the things we've heard, this is a little more concerning."
Waknine's current relationship with Clarett is not clear, although two hours before Clarett's arrest, the running back called an ESPN reporter and mentioned, in passing, that he and Waknine were still friends. However, ESPN has learned that the FBI contacted Clarett about his relationship with Waknine before the 2005 draft, and it is unknown whether Clarett cooperated.
Waknine went on trial on June 5, and he pleaded guilty a week later to a single racketeering charge, admitting that he threatened violence to extort money from several individuals. Waknine, who was unavailable for comment Thursday, is expected to receive a nine-year prison term at his sentencing Sept. 11. His attorney, Kenner -- the former lawyer for Death Row Records and its founder, Marion "Suge" Knight -- did not return phone messages.
It's no secret, however, that Waknine provided Clarett with a life of luxury from August 2004 to August 2005.
"When I worked with Maurice, he had Hai and a very high-profile lawyer," said Charles Poliquin, who trained Clarett in November and December 2004 in Phoenix. "There are not a lot of guys that want to play pro football who have a team of lawyers and money men backing them up, and, for sure, they had his best interests at heart. But he was living too nice a life. Too nice. He was living in Malibu. Right on the beach. I've been to the house. [Waknine] owned like 10 cars and said, 'Pick whatever car you want.'"
But money eventually became an issue, especially for all of Clarett's three personal trainers. None of them -- Poliquin, Chad Ikei and Todd Durkin -- was ever paid for his services, and when one contacted a member of Clarett's inner circle to be reimbursed, he was told, "You'll get paid when I get paid."
Mango said he has neither the time nor the resources to investigate Waknine, but he found the threatening postcard puzzling.
"It came on a small index card like you use in school or whatever, and whatever language that was on it was actually cut and pasted in the old-fashioned sense, like typed and then cut out and pasted onto it," he said. "And then, obviously, the identity of the sender has been pretty well kept ... they took steps to keep that ... "I think anything you get where the sender has taken very obvious and extreme and multiple steps to keep their identity sealed, that concerns me," he said. "Maurice has gotten other letters and, quite frankly, so have we. People write notes and might use the N-words, but it's in their handwriting some. Some sign it, even an address. In this case, none of that. There's no way to trace this one."
Lawyer: Clarett has ties to alleged Israeli mobster
ESPN.com
Maurice Clarett was bankrolled by an alleged member of an Israeli crime organization after leaving Ohio State, ESPN has learned, and Clarett's attorney said Thursday that his client may have been in possession of firearms last week to protect himself against mob activity.
Clarett's attorney, Nick Mango, said Thursday that Clarett has repeatedly received death threats over the past year but that a cryptic postcard sent from Los Angeles last week has him wondering about Clarett's ties to an alleged mob enforcer.
In the late summer of 2004, ESPN has learned, Clarett traveled to Los Angeles and was introduced by a rapper friend to Hai Waknine, 35, a convicted felon who prosecutors believe is a member of an Israeli crime organization called The Jerusalem Group. Waknine, who at the time was being indicted on extortion and money-laundering charges, became Clarett's sponsor and adviser, along with Waknine's attorney, David Kenner. Waknine provided Clarett with cash, a BMW, bodyguards, drivers and beachfront lodging in Malibu, with the understanding that he would be reimbursed and receive 60 percent of Clarett's rookie contract.
But when Clarett was released by the Denver Broncos in August 2005, he was unable to pay Waknine back, and ESPN has learned that Waknine eventually cut off Clarett financially. Clarett moved back to his hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, that fall.
After Clarett was arrested last week, allegedly wearing a bulletproof vest and possessing four guns and a hatchet, Clarett's attorneys received an anonymous phone call alerting them to Clarett's ties to Wakine. They grew more suspicious when they received the threatening postcard this week.
Mango said he is concerned that postcard, sent to his law office, may have come from Waknine.
"That's our question, whether it's from him or people associated with that scene out there," Mango told ESPN. "Again, it came from Los Angeles, and we don't know what to make of that. ... We're going to turn this over to someone in law enforcement and see what they think [of the postcard]. ... We've always felt he had some reasons to fear for his safety, and we don't think any of his actions the night he was arrested -- despite the way it's been spun -- were that he was a threat to anyone else but more of him being in fear for his safety for quite some time."
Mango also said he believes Clarett's debt may have something to do with the threats.
"I believe he owes [Waknine] money, and I think [Waknine] is probably not the only one" he owes, Mango said. "Whether it's someone all the way on that coast or more on this side of the country; it's no one that I'd want to owe money to. ... A call came to our office [about Waknine], kind of giving us a rumored story. It's been kind of tossed around by us, and quite frankly, Youngstown has quite a reputation -- if you don't know it already -- for the Italian side of that ballgame. And everyone here thought, 'Well, you wonder with money changing hands ...' Having heard the things we've heard, this is a little more concerning."
Waknine's current relationship with Clarett is not clear, although two hours before Clarett's arrest, the running back called an ESPN reporter and mentioned, in passing, that he and Waknine were still friends. However, ESPN has learned that the FBI contacted Clarett about his relationship with Waknine before the 2005 draft, and it is unknown whether Clarett cooperated.
Waknine went on trial on June 5, and he pleaded guilty a week later to a single racketeering charge, admitting that he threatened violence to extort money from several individuals. Waknine, who was unavailable for comment Thursday, is expected to receive a nine-year prison term at his sentencing Sept. 11. His attorney, Kenner -- the former lawyer for Death Row Records and its founder, Marion "Suge" Knight -- did not return phone messages.
It's no secret, however, that Waknine provided Clarett with a life of luxury from August 2004 to August 2005.
"When I worked with Maurice, he had Hai and a very high-profile lawyer," said Charles Poliquin, who trained Clarett in November and December 2004 in Phoenix. "There are not a lot of guys that want to play pro football who have a team of lawyers and money men backing them up, and, for sure, they had his best interests at heart. But he was living too nice a life. Too nice. He was living in Malibu. Right on the beach. I've been to the house. [Waknine] owned like 10 cars and said, 'Pick whatever car you want.'"
But money eventually became an issue, especially for all of Clarett's three personal trainers. None of them -- Poliquin, Chad Ikei and Todd Durkin -- was ever paid for his services, and when one contacted a member of Clarett's inner circle to be reimbursed, he was told, "You'll get paid when I get paid."
Mango said he has neither the time nor the resources to investigate Waknine, but he found the threatening postcard puzzling.
"It came on a small index card like you use in school or whatever, and whatever language that was on it was actually cut and pasted in the old-fashioned sense, like typed and then cut out and pasted onto it," he said. "And then, obviously, the identity of the sender has been pretty well kept ... they took steps to keep that ... "I think anything you get where the sender has taken very obvious and extreme and multiple steps to keep their identity sealed, that concerns me," he said. "Maurice has gotten other letters and, quite frankly, so have we. People write notes and might use the N-words, but it's in their handwriting some. Some sign it, even an address. In this case, none of that. There's no way to trace this one."
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