((HT: Louisville Courier-Journal/Riley))A Jefferson County jury has acquitted former Pleasure Ridge Park High School football coach Jason Stinson on charges of reckless homicide and wanton endangerment in the death of a player in 2008.
The jury reached the verdict approximately 90 minutes after beginning deliberations in the case of sophomore lineman Max Gilpin’s death from heat stroke.
One of Stinson's attorneys, Alex Dathorne, summed his case to the jury this way:
"We’re talking about a football practice,” Dathorne told jurors. “Do you understand that?”
“We’ve got a man looking at prison time for being a football coach,” Dathorne said, telling jurors that football is, in itself, a risk and Max’s death three days after practice was an accident.
“Convict football, don’t convict this man,” Dathorne told jurors. “This man was doing what every coach in the country was doing that day.”
Complete coverage from the Louisville Courier-Journal is here in black...
Here are the closing arguments from the defense and the prosecution, thanks to our friends at WHAS-TV in Louisville...
Here's an interview with Stinson attorney Alex Dathorne, thanks to our friends at Fox 41
1 comment:
Somebody should run stinson till he dies. Maybe we should get rid of sports in school. Stinson should spend the rest of his life n PRISON!!!!!!!!!!
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