Pretty good is a weird framing be considering that the article illuminates the fact that he is a thug POS.
He's not a #1 cover corner. But some team will be dumb enough to pay him like one. It won't be New England. So at least it will make it easier for me to see him leave because I don't want to have to root for trash. That's the only good thing that came out of this article for me.
But that's the NFL in a nutshell. Great things happening to bad people.
Then you didn't bother to research the incident and just want to label JC a
"thug POS" based on a kneejerk reaction and assumptions. You're going to call him
"trash" ... seriously?
If you had researched the incident you would've learned that JC was found not guilty on all charges. Charges weren't dropped, he didn't take a plea deal, there wasn't a backdoor deal; the case went to trial and a verdict was reached: He was found not guilty and acquitted of all charges he faced.
As for the incident itself, apparently JC kept questionable company but he never possessed/brandished a weapon and was not present during the robbery. In fact, he claims he never knew the robbery was going to occur -- the actual robbery happened after JC had left the residence and this was confirmed as true by the victims.
Worst case scenario, JC assisted in setting up a robbery but never brandished a firearm and was not present as it occurred. Best case scenario, he kept questionable company, but had no knowledge of the robbery and had nothing to do with it. Either way, that doesn't seem like an act so heinous that one shouldn't be able to get a second chance as a result, nor something that makes one a
"thug POS ... trash" for the rest of their life
.
Do your research, drop your biases, check your assumptions. Your opinion about is both ornery and inaccurate.
Former Immokalee High School and University of Florida football standout Jerald "J.C." Jackson was found not guilty of four felonies Friday, charges that led to his departure from the Gators earlier this year.
Jurors in Gainesville deliberated for about two hours before acquitting Jackson, a 2014 graduate, on three counts of home invasion robbery and one count of burglary. Jackson faced up to life in prison if convicted on all counts.
Gainesville police and prosecutors accused the 19-year-old of helping to carry out a robbery of three men at an apartment in April. The victims said Jackson entered the apartment, left, returned with two other men, then left just before the holdup. About $375 cash and two video game systems were taken at gunpoint.
But Christopher Brown, Jackson's lawyer, argued that Jackson left the robbery scene with no knowledge that a robbery was about to occur. Jackson didn't testify in his defense.
"It surely shows a bad choice in company and that he wasn't using his head, but he didn't have a weapon and there was no evidence he ever obtained any stolen goods," Brown said. "It looks bad, but this isn't proof that he was part of a plan and assisted in the robbery."
An Alachua County jury found J.C. Jackson not guilty on four felony counts in connection with an April home invasion, his lawyer said Friday. Jackson played football at Immokalee High School before joining the Gators last year.
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