Whistlebritches
Special Teams Player
It's been a really long time since I've had to deal with any court proceedings but I'm 99.9% sure that I had to sign the court orders that stated, very specifically, when the terms of my probation period was complete. A legal document is not going to use an ambiguous term like the end of the school semester without also specifying an exact date. Moss himself should have had a copy of the court order and so should his attorney. I hate to say it but Moss has no one to blame but himself.Was going to the dorms so important he couldn't be bothered to ask someone first to make sure he understood it correctly?But you know when your probation ends because they state so many months, and give you a release date. You also keep in touch with PO's during the time your on it as well. Moss was under the assumption that he was only banned until the end of the academic year. I don't think any of us know what was said, but things could have not been clearly stated. Since he has kept his nose clean and I don't see him doing this to create a f'up, I will give him the benefit of the doubt.I still don't think the punishment fits the crime.
After the initial incident, he was banned from the residence halls. 11.5 months after this ban, and only 0.5 months before the end of the ban, there is a miscommunication and he violates this minor ban. He then receives an ALL-CAMPUS ban? Violating the residence hall ban 15 days early after a miscommunication entails a full-campus ban? This basically kicks the kid out of school, kicks him off the team, invalidates his athletic scholarship, and burns a year of eligibility. All this time, he has been going to counseling, presumably getting good grades, and not getting in any other trouble.
Again, I don't think the punishment fits the crime.
If you violated your probation 15 days before it ended, would you still expect to come in contact with the consequences of violating your probation?