No he's not. Hardy is a monster who should not be playing in the NFL. Just a guy? Marcus Cannon is just a guy who overcame cancer to be on an NFL roster. Scott Chandler is just a guy.
Greg Hardy is an unrepentant convicted abuser of women who is threatening Tom Brady and talking smack about Brady's wife. This "just a guy" has no business being on an NFL roster. Goodell talks about the "integrity of the game," but he completely botched this suspension which was overturned on appeal as he did with Ray Rice.
His conviction was dismissed because the victim could not be found in February to testify at the appeal of the conviction.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...es-against-panthers-hardy-dismissed/23116685/
This is a messy affair.
A senior reporter in Dallas blasted the Cowboys for signing Hardy:
Read this account of the trial from the
Charlotte Observer:
"The judge’s verdict followed an exhaustive 10-hour trial, unusual in domestic-violence court, where women and men are forced to sit on separate sides of the aisle and cases can be settled in minutes.
The case against Hardy, however, started in late morning and ended at 9 p.m. It drew a dozen witnesses and featured hour after hour of testimony into the darker side of youth, beauty and celebrity, with drugs, sex and violence playing key roles in the narrative.
Tin pushed the trial far into the night, she said, because domestic-violence court could not afford a two-day delay in its case backlog. So while witnesses in the Hardy case talked about $1,000 bottles of champagne, court-appointed attorneys wandered through the courtroom, calling out the names of clients they had never met.
In announcing her decision, Tin noted that Hardy and Nicole Holder told wildly differentversions from the witness stand of what happened in the football player’s luxury uptown apartment on May 13. But the judge said the evidence persuaded her beyond reasonable doubt that Hardy beat Holder, threw her around his apartment, then tried to hide his actions with a fabricated 911 call.
Assistant District Attorney Jamie Adams told Tin in her closing arguments that Holder told the truth when she described how Hardy erupted while the two were in his bedroom after a long night of drinking at some of the city’s most popular and exclusive nightspots.
Hardy, Holder said, flung her from the bed, threw her into a bathtub, then tossed her on a futon covered with rifles. Holder said Hardy ripped a necklace he had given her off her neck, threw it into a toilet and slammed the lid on her arm when she tried to fish it out.
The 6-foot-4, 265-pound Hardy dragged her by the hair room to room, she said, before putting his hands around her throat.
“He looked me in my eyes and he told me he was going to kill me,” said Holder, 24, who said she used to live with Hardy.
“I was so scared I wanted to die. When he loosened his grip slightly, I said, ‘Just do it. Kill me.’ ”
Later, as Holder said she was held by her former boyfriend’s personal assistant, she said Hardy made the 911 call, showed her the phone, and said, “Run, little girl. You’re going to jail.”
Read more here:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article9140591.html#storylink=cpy
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article9140591.html
