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NFL Commissioner "sentences" Donte Stallworth to a year without pay

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this New York Times article, Donte Stallworth has now been "sentenced" again for killing a pedestrian while driving drunk.  Here are the basics: The National Football League?s summer of malefactors took another turn Thursday, when Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended wide receiver Donte? Stallworth for the entire 2009 season without pay.  Stallworth, a member of the Cleveland Browns, will be reinstated after the 2010 Super Bowl. Last March, Stallworth, while driving drunk, struck and killed a pedestrian near Miami Beach, the morning after he had received a $4.5 million roster bonus from the Browns.  He pleaded guilty to D.U.I. manslaughter, a felony, and spent less than a month in prison, a relatively light sentence given in part because of claims of contributory negligence by the pedestrian, who was not in a crosswalk when he was struck...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).