Mabry found not guilty

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May this week never end!!! The good news keeps on coming in.

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Rocky Mount High School basketball standout Tashawn Mabry shook hands with defense attorney Joe Hester in a Rocky Mount courtroom Wednesday afternoon after he was found not guilty of assault by pointing a gun.

Many people are speculating that with his legal issues out of the way, a potential official offer of a scholarship from the Wolfpack may not be far behind. Mabry is expected to accept if offered by NC State.

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46 Responses to Mabry found not guilty

  1. aPACKadeez 05/06/2010 at 8:03 PM #

    No wonder we were waiting, I didn’t even realize he was in trouble!

  2. john of sparta 05/06/2010 at 8:32 PM #

    good news, i guess. just why is it that the recruited
    athletes for men’s basketball and football have such a
    higher incidence of felony accusations? higher than the
    university student population, that is. not misdemeanors.
    felonies. is it the drugs? steroids/HGH/next generation?
    is it the desire for explosive athleticism (code, i know)
    and a hope of taming the explosions? my wife says this:
    it’s because people PAY for it. pay stops, it stops.

  3. StateFans 05/06/2010 at 8:36 PM #

    I’m not sure there is necessarily a higher incidence of this stuff for athletes when compared to identical demographic socio-econmical peers.

  4. tobaccordshow 05/06/2010 at 8:38 PM #

    So in the past 7 days:

    – CJ Leslie
    – JWSNBN
    – Mabry
    – Wear Bros
    – *ahem* LT

    Incredible.

  5. 61Packer 05/06/2010 at 8:43 PM #

    I’m not sure this one’s something to cheer about in terms of being good news for the Pack (it is certainly good news for Mabry, however). Not saying he was guilty, but I don’t like it when our targeted recruits are in trouble before they even get to college.

  6. choppack1 05/06/2010 at 9:04 PM #

    I don’t know. If folks are from Rocky Mount – they likely know the scoop. Was Mabry a friend of the shooter? Exactly what was he doing there?

    If you read the article, the witness went after him…Sounds like she’s convinced that he was involved.

  7. Wulfpack 05/06/2010 at 9:19 PM #

    “just why is it that the recruited athletes for men’s basketball and football have such a higher incidence of felony accusations?”

    One word: entitlement.

  8. packfan03 05/06/2010 at 9:21 PM #

    I would be interested in hearing the tenor of the talk in Rocky Mount regarding this. However, the fact of the matter is he was found not guilty and we should leave it at that.

    Was it even confirmed that he had a gun? Or is this simply a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time? From what I can infer, walking outside in Rocky Mount can be a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

  9. packfan03 05/06/2010 at 9:27 PM #

    I’m not sure there is necessarily a higher incidence of this stuff for athletes when compared to identical demographic socio-econmical peers.

    DING DING!

  10. PackisRolling 05/06/2010 at 10:11 PM #

    good for him…but just reading the details in the link below concerns me. if UNC were after him we would all be crying foul.

    http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/gryphons-mabry-court-assault-charge-19363

  11. choppack1 05/06/2010 at 10:47 PM #

    I’d be willing to look the other way if it was a simple assualt or drug possession – but he was charged in a case that involved a murder.

    He may have been totally innocent – but if I was I recruiting this kid – I’d be interviewing as many people as possible to make sure that was the case.

  12. tjfoose2 05/06/2010 at 10:51 PM #

    “Good news”?

    ‘Not guilty’ does not equal ‘innocent’. Mabry, while not proven guilty, doesn’t come out smelling like roses. His involvement in this is questionable at best.

    The kid may be completely innocent of everything, other than being at the wrong place at the wrong time, but to me, it’s not worth the risk.

    With the recruiting class coming in, the upswing in fortunes for NC State, the great potential developing for the basketball program, and the N&O et al just waiting for Golenbach II… I don’t see how an objective cost/benefit analysis of the situation comes out for offering, let alone signing, Mabry.

    I hope the kid gets an offer (perhaps to more established program who has the built up cred to better absorb the ‘smoke’), if he deserves one, but I hope we pass.

    May not be fair, but life and reality rarely are.

    —————————–
    Separately, from the article:

    “Hester argued that besides Lynch’s testimony, there was no evidence of a gun”

    Aside from the dead guy with the bullet hole in his chest.

  13. c c harrison 05/07/2010 at 12:11 AM #

    * CJ Leslie signs LOI
    * Fowl-up gets das’ boot
    * News of Calamari possibly going to the Bulls comes out
    * News of Brandon Knight possibly leaving UK to play in Italy comes out
    * The Bobsey twins are transferring out of UNX
    * Mabry is found “not guilty”

    I’m playing the Powerball Saturday!!!

  14. inhoc... 05/07/2010 at 3:54 AM #

    since when is running around a housing project with a gun a pass? oh, thats right, he was not guilty because he did not point it at anyone!….

  15. coach13 05/07/2010 at 6:43 AM #

    Regardless, sounds like trouble we don’t need. I’d rather see us fill that scholarship next year.

    PackisRolling is absolutely right.

    JUST WALK AWAY !!!

  16. 66pack 05/07/2010 at 7:56 AM #

    17 year old with handgun and was in company of the murderer and murderer ,enough said.i hope lowe will allow another school deal with the problems this kid will bring.and lowe has family experience in illegal activity so he does not need to adopt more problems.

  17. PackHooligan 05/07/2010 at 8:08 AM #

    I am in total agreement with tjfoose on this one.

  18. GAWolf 05/07/2010 at 8:15 AM #

    1) John of Sparta: Assault by pointing a gun is a misdemeanor.

    2) The article said Mr. Hester argued that there was no evidence of a firearm with respect to Mr. Mabry whatsoever except her testimony. I take that to mean no one else testified that they ever saw him with a gun and there was no gun found.

    3) I represent people regularly who are charged with offenses they had literally absolutely nothing to do with when the sole evidence is one other person’s testimony.

    4) It’s not his job to prove himself innocent. We live, thankfully, in a country where that is the presumption until the State proves otherwise. There’s really no need to shift that burden on Mr. Mabry or anyone else… including yourself… God forbid… the day ever come where some alleges you have committed a crime.

  19. skitchwolf 05/07/2010 at 8:24 AM #

    I must say part of me agrees with tjfoose, why go borrowing trouble? But after reading some of the comments associated with the article in the Telegram and GAWolf’s note above, I think I’m inclined to trust Sid’s instincts on this one. As was noted above, Sid’s been through a similar situation with his own son, so he probably has a better sense of what this kid is really like than any of us. I WILL say though, that if I were in Sid’s shoes I would think long and hard about the very things that tjfoose pointed out.

  20. packattack95 05/07/2010 at 9:05 AM #

    To avoid a PR disaster for State, maybe Mabry will quietly enroll at State in August and join the basketball team in December…

  21. mafpack 05/07/2010 at 9:11 AM #

    Wulfpack Says:
    May 6th, 2010 at 9:19 pm

    “just why is it that the recruited athletes for men’s basketball and football have such a higher incidence of felony accusations?”

    One word: entitlement.

    ____________________

    One word: Judgmental.

    Show me stats that even remotely back up your point. I personally had more drug/alcohol incidents with students (non-athletes) in 2 years at ONE of NC State’s dorms as an RA than I’ve seen publicly in our Basketball and Football teams combined in recent memory (10 20 years?). Give me a break.

    Maybe you wanna be Sheriffs should try actually reading what Statefans mentioned earlier (he’s right btw) and then pull the giant plank out of your own eye before casting judgment on a kid who was just found to be innocent.

    He was presumed innocent before trial, proved innocent during and now YOU think you have the right to convict him as guilty because of some stuff you read on the interwebz? Makes me sick.

  22. choppack1 05/07/2010 at 9:13 AM #

    GAWolf – From legal point of view (as I’d expect from you) – you’re spot on. However, from a character point of view – this is a huge question mark.

    Like I said, the details of this newspaper article tell us zero.

    Did he know the suspect?
    Did he know the victim?
    Was he hanging around w/ the suspect and/or victim leading up to the shooting?
    Did he cooperate w/ police in the investigation?

    If he’s totally innocent of any questionable behavior/associations – I would expect there to be more details of this story. I’m sorry, there ARE A LOT OF MISSING DETAILS HERE. Like I said, the only way I’d bring this guy in is if I was able to speak to a lot of different people about this.

    If Sid thinks this kid is a can’t miss prospect, he should spend some money to have this independently throrougly investigated. Simply being found “not guilty” of waving a gun at someone is no cause for celebration when you are at the murder scene.

  23. coachkoh 05/07/2010 at 9:18 AM #

    I hope we stay away but I don’t think Sid will. I am all for second chances but the victims girl friend going after him in the court is very telling.
    I fail to see how a murder and this kid getting off without a charge is in the same light of us signing Leslie ,if this was unx etc we would all be outraged!

  24. Thinkpack17 05/07/2010 at 9:26 AM #

    “Did he know the suspect?
    Did he know the victim?
    Was he hanging around w/ the suspect and/or victim leading up to the shooting?
    Did he cooperate w/ police in the investigation?”

    Most of these have been answered.

    1. He may know him, but didn’t see him at the scene.
    2. Yes
    3. He was with the victim.
    4. Yes

    “I fail to see how a murder and this kid getting off without a charge is in the same light of us signing Leslie…”

    Who said it was? I don’t think State fans were 4 rows deep in the parking lot of the Rocky Mount courthouse when the verdict was read.

  25. coachkoh 05/07/2010 at 9:34 AM #

    ^ “May this week never end!! The good news never ends”
    Who said it was ???????????????

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