Greg Hardy's a POS.
He clearly is guilty and used the loophole in NC's laws to buy himself time to pay off the woman he beat to take a massive settlement to get lost so that his pending jury trial would have to be thrown out.
Hey Hardy... making the beaten woman disappear doesn't make you innocent. Just means you're soulless and after paying off the victim you have the ball-balls to appear before people and CLAIM innocence.
Someone needs to drop a piano on that guy. One that's on fire...
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article11383256.html
NFL won’t get Hardy’s trial evidence
BY JOSEPH PERSON
JPERSON@CHARLOTTEOBSERVER.COM
Between the appeals on top of appeals in
the Adrian Peterson saga and the dueling motions being filed in Greg Hardy’s case, the NFL’s lawyers and those representing the players are racking up billable hours this offseason.
But the mounting pile of paperwork in the Hardy file no longer contains the exhibits the league’s investigators presumably are most interested in seeing: The dozens of photos introduced in
the July trial documenting the injuries sustained by Hardy’s ex-girlfriend, Nicole Holder, during their altercation last May at Hardy’s uptown condo.
The NFL this month asked a judge to unseal the evidence from the first trial, during which a district judge found Hardy guilty of the misdemeanor charges of assaulting Holder and threatening to kill her.
But the exhibits had been returned to the district attorney’s office and Hardy’s attorney, Chris Fialko, on Feb. 11, two days after the charges were dismissed against Hardy when prosecutors said they couldn’t locate Holder to testify in the jury trial.
Fialko filed his own motion Feb. 16, asking the court to deny the NFL’s request. That same day, Superior Court Judge Robert Bell signed an order doing just that.
Bell’s order was not entered into the file until Feb. 24, a day after the NFL withdrew its original motion.
What does all this mean?
That Hardy and his attorneys apparently aren’t going to willfully turn over any evidence to the NFL investigators trying to figure out what happened between Hardy and Holder, and whether and how severely to punish him.
Fialko has the only transcript for Hardy’s first trial, and has declined to comment when asked whether he’d provide it to the league. Fialko, a veteran Charlotte defense attorney who was part of Rae Carruth’s legal team, is protecting his client’s interests.
But it comes across as non-cooperation, which is not the best look for Hardy – certainly not where Panthers owner Jerry Richardson, a staunch loyalist to the league, is concerned.
Hardy, who settled with Holder for an undisclosed sum to take care of any civil claims, has showed little or no contrition since his arrest last May. Even if he believes he’s innocent, Hardy could have apologized to the Panthers for putting the team in a bad light.
The closest Hardy came to a mea culpa was at training camp last July when he said: “I hate that I have distracted my team, but other than that I can’t really answer any questions.”
It’s unclear when or if Hardy will answer questions from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell or Lisa Friel, the former New York City sex crimes prosecutor hired by the league last fall to help clean up the Ray Rice mess.
Hardy’s lawyers and representatives have not said whether Hardy has met with Goodell yet, or if he has a meeting scheduled.
After a federal judge ruled in Peterson’s favor last week, the Observer reported
Hardy planned to ask the league for immediate reinstatementfrom the commissioner’s exempt list. But after the league appealed Judge David Doty’s decision, it effectively put Hardy’s reinstatement hopes on ice.
I have to think the NFL will announce the discipline for Hardy this week, before the March 10 start of free agency. And given the post-Rice climate around the league, I don’t see a scenario in which Hardy is not suspended.
The question is whether Goodell uses the baseline discipline from the league’s new personal conduct policy for first-time violations of domestic violence (six games) or reverts to the former policy. It was Goodell’s retroactive use of the new policy in the Peterson case that led Doty to overturn an arbitrator’s decision upholding Goodell’s suspension of Peterson through at least April 15.
Whatever Goodell decides on Hardy, the process is just beginning.
There’s certain to be a grievance filed by the players union, and arbitration hearings and appeals to follow.
Eventually, the lawyers and league officials will end up with a resolution on Hardy, but it will no longer be the Panthers’ concern.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/28/report-panthers-are-done-with-greg-hardy/
Report: Panthers are done with Greg Hardy
Posted by Darin Gantt on February 28, 2015
We don’t know at the moment whether Panthers defensive end
Greg Hardy will or won’t be suspended.
And we can’t know until at least the March 10 start of free agency to know where he’ll play, whenever he’s eligible.
But it seems we know where he won’t be playing next season.
According to Bill Voth of
Black and Blue Review,
the Panthers are out of the running for last year’s franchise player, deciding to let him walk into the market, and willing to simply accept whatever 2016 compensatory pick comes their way.
While a number of players went to bat for Hardy with management after his domestic violence case was thrown out to create a glimmer of hope, “that slim possibility quickly cooled and eventually ended last week.”
It’s unclear what, if anything, happened within the last seven days to erase the last shred of hope that he’d return. But you could see the writing on the wall at the Scouting Combine, when General Manager Dave Gettleman was discussing the importance of evaluating character and said “
Who wants a ticking time bomb?”
The Panthers were already wary of him, unwilling to invest in a long-term deal last year. Then their $13.1-million franchise tag gamble backfired, when he played one game and spent the rest of the year on the commissioner’s exempt list.
Hardy’s
lately been retweeting fans begging the team to bring him back, but it seems like he’s going to have to find another fanbase to do his passive-aggressive online panhandling for him.
If this was just a football decision, he’d be one of the most sought-after players in the market. He’s still 26, and had 15.0 sacks the last time he played a full season.
Teams such as the Falcons, Buccaneers, Bengals, Raiders and Jaguars have the means and needs to pursue him, but his market will be fascinating to watch since no one’s sure when or whether Roger Goodell will rule on his status.
