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49ers rookie linebacker Ezra Butler, whose draft stock fell based at least in part on a one-game suspension in 2007 for smoking marijuana, was arrested on Saturday for DUI and possession of marijuana.
Butler, who played college ball at Nevada, recognized last month that his marijuana use kept him from being drafted. “I think [the marijuana revelation] affected me, but at the end of the day I’ve got no one to blame but myself. I’m still going to have an opportunity to make the team.”
Per the police report, Butler admitted to smoking marijuana 40 minutes before the arrest.
The move re-sets the “Days without an Arrest” meter to three, and six points awarded to the Niners will be removed if Butler is cut by 11:30 p.m. on May 31.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Maybe he will be sentenced to be Alex Smiths’ Butler. Hillarity ensues.
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May 27th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
i am so high right now!!!
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May 27th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Great scouting by the 49ers.
Nothing like signing a FA rookie that gets busted, let alone one that wasn’t drafted because the fear he’d be a turd.
Well done.
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May 27th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
He’s just trying to save his team money by beating the June 1st deadline. Give him a break……
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May 27th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Sometimes I think you need to re-do your points system. Smoking pot and getting a DUI by a fringe player hardly likely to make the roster is hardly the same as keeping a convicted multiple-DUI offender (that actually killed someone) on the team (Leonard Little as you well know) because the shit-stain can rush the passer.
I’m thinking that non-violent felonies should only get a FG unless there was some serious money or bodily injury involved. Wrongful death, for example, seems to run about $500,000 to $800,000 from the statistics I’ve read so that’s good indication of the economic damages that should qualify for a 6-pointer. This would wind down to a safety for the smaller felonies, running at current Rookie Minimum, or less, in economic damages. Maybe an extra-point try for misdemeanors and small claims court…
Basically, more differentiation, like the legal system and its various felony and misdemeanor classifications.
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May 27th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I was starting to worry that we were going to make it all the way through a holiday weekend without resetting the arrest counter. But all is right with the world once again. Phew that was a close one…
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May 27th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Well they were quick to act, as the niners already waived him.
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May 27th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Looks like according to the 49ers website they cut him already. Way to make an example out of them with those 6 points. Well done Florio, well done.
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May 27th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Spark it Up!
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May 27th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
pass it here..
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May 28th, 2008 at 12:22 am
The Butler is smoking marijuana and the Porter has a leg injury. It’s really tough to get good help these days.
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May 28th, 2008 at 8:17 am
gbrundage,you think it’s a big joke,until one of your
family members winds up in the hospital,disfigured,
broken and near death.maybe you’ll get the point that
these people should not be driving.
the idea that you think this a game is very immature.
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