But it’s good that this guy has turned his life around.

I will say that running someone over while drunk is a far greater crime considering the options available to not be driving drunk as a young, rich man. I don’t know if he couldn’t have stopped either way because we only know for a fact that he was drunk and impaired.

Manslaughter where I come from doesnt let you off with 24 days. Hell, the second time you are caught driving drunk is 12 months. Just let that sink in while defending Stallworth.

“On June 25 (1998), Collins was arrested after he allegedly forced his way into an off-campus apartment. He then allegedly grabbed a 17-year-old woman. He was kicked off the team after the first arrest On July 8, he was arrested again, this time for an incident on June 19, in which he allegedly broke into an off-campus apartment and touched an 18-year-old woman.

After the first arrest, he was charged with unauthorized entry into an inhabited dwelling and sexual battery, though the sexual battery charge was reduced to simple battery when he was booked. In October, a grand jury indicted him on two counts each of unauthorized entry into an inhabited dwelling, a felony, and two counts of simple battery.”

And the final arrest:

“After forcing open the couple’s window and removing the screen, Collins entered the apartment and headed for the master bedroom, police said. When he opened the door, Collins awoke Ronald Nolte, 43.

Police said they received a 911 call at 5:30 a.m. and went to see Collins in his third-floor apartment after speaking with the Noltes. (Orlando Sentinel)

Following the arrest, the Diesel said he broke into Tina Nolte’s home because he wanted to watch her sleep.”

This guy was a sexual battery waiting to happen and the streets were safer with him behind bars. It was a “burglary” charge, but everyone knew what was going on there. Memories seem to be fading.

it looks like the justice system actually worked this time…it protected society at large from a manace- and an NFL running back breaking into your home in the middle of the night is nothing short of a menace-
and it rehabilitated his character…win/win.

Many of us at the time saw Collins for what he was: highly talented but highly troubled and likely to be a huge bust that never made much of a contribution on the field.

Stallworth was a completely different matter. He was driving while intoxicated and that’s a crime, but, from everything I read, the death was not due to his intoxication. Had he been sober, he still could not have avoiding hitting a guy who stepped into the road in front of his car.

If you, your entire family, and all your friends have never had two or three drinks in the same night, you can ignore what I just wrote.

And Stallworth owned up to it from the second it happened. In most of these other cases that everyone loves to compare to Stallworth there was definitely terrible intent, arrogance, and a sense of entitlement that prison goes a long way to correcting.

I do agree 15 years sounds harsh for this guy but that’s based on the facts of his case as presented in this article, nothing to do with Stallworth.

He got 15 years because of two similar convictions in his past, as well as being on probation for one of those while he committed his last crime.

He won a re-sentencing hearing for his last crime… and was sentenced to the same 15 years.

At least two of his convictions involved breaking into places where it seemed he was intent on sexually assaulting women who lived there, but was interrupted before he could do it.

Nope. He’s not getting sympathy from me on his sentence.

I truly hope he has turned his life around and returns to society as a law-abiding person.

(This ignores the fact that they were sentenced years apart and the standards are different today then when Collins got booked. And many other circumstances that make it an apples to oranges comparison)

I don’t really have much concern with anyone doing TOO much time for the crime they are convicted. Since I’m not going to break into a woman’s house to watch her sleep or do anything else it’s not something I’m going to need to worry about being “over-punished.”

Also I understand how Cecil can feel his life would have been worse (a shambles) without the jail sentence.

The sentencing seems/is a bit harsh, however he was arrested several times for exactly the same thing while in college. It was quite surprising that he got drafted at all.