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Patriots running back Kevin Faulk, who was cited for marijuana possession as he was entering a rap concert in February, has pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge.
[Editor’s note: A prior version of this story indicated that Faulk pleaded guilty. He actually pleaded no contest. The difference is that a plea of no contest allows Faulk to plausibly maintain his innocence, even though the outcome is no different. We apologize for the error.]
Faulk received a suspended sentence of five months in jail, and a year of supervised probation. He also must perform 40 hours of community service, participate in 20 hours of a substance abuse program, pay a fine of $300, $231 in court costs, and $250 for drug analysis.
Faulk previously claimed that the coat that contained four hand-rolled marijuana cigars wasn’t his.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:58 am
monger,
You want to talk about sliding scale. Funny, how most other teams have players who have done worse than Faulk and their fans don’t mind, yet no one question their fans morality. I guess you never heard of Shawne Merriman (steriods), Pacman Jones (where do I begin?), Albert Haynesworth, Koren Robinson (multiple DUIs), Jared Allen, all the players who were on the Love Boat in Minnesota, Chris Henry (Bengals fans defended him prior to being released, but has a laundry list of charges), Tank Johnson (spent time in jail for gun charges), Leonard Little (vehiclelar manslaughter), Randy McMichaels (domestic abuse), etc. If teams cut every player who was charged with charges like Kevin Faulk did, you wouldn’t be able to field 32 teams.
But thank you for youer obession and jealousy of the Patriots. It is much appreciated.
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July 9th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
And seriously, how many people actually get jail time on their first offense being caught with a four joints. We are not talking about drug trafficking. Faulk got the same punishment that many or probably most first time offenders get.
How Faulk didn’t get the death penalty is beyond me. Yes, I know that Massachusetts doesn’t have the death penalty, but monger is right they should have reinstated for this case because the crime was so heinous. I can only imagine how many people actually died because Faulk had four joints. Had to be in the thousands.
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July 9th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
texasPHINSfan,
The 5 months jail was a suspended sentence. That means Faulk won’t have to do any jail time.
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July 9th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Reminds me of the time that Irvin got busted for possession of cocaine for sitting in a chair that had a plate of the stuff underneath it. Yeah, wasn’t his coke either.
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July 9th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
And furthermore monger, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to find out that all four of them habitually smoke Marijuana cigarettes…. REEFERS!
go sit on a steak knife u square ass punk.
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July 9th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Some of you fools are pretty quick to condemn Faulk for such a minor offense. Calling him a turd for having blunts at a concert? I’m sure you guys are saints or atleast you better be.
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July 9th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
its very obvious monger is behind this. i’m ninety percent sure he shot jfk too. that bastard.
and yes, that penatly seems to harsh.
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July 9th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Its a Patriots story where is wingnut & skew? LOL
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July 9th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
There goes Monger again. Comparing a toker with someone who points a gun at a woman’s head…
If I had to guess, and this is just a guess, quite a bit of these NFL players have or had smoked a little bit of this stuff. You would to if you went through the equivalent of 5 car accidents in a 3 hour span. Not that I am saying what he did was right, he broke a law, but Monger, seriously get a clue.
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July 9th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Vox Veritas,
yeah, you can stand on your moral high horse because the Cowboys only take high morals, upstanding people. Or are you going to use your “Jimmy Johhnson admitting to videotaping signals while coaching the Cowboys doesn’t count, because then being a Cowboy fan I would be a hypocrite to blast Belichick and the Pats for the doing the same thing”.
You serial Patriots bashers are too predictable. It is only a horrible offense when someone on the Patriots do it.
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July 9th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
@ryand
I actually like Kevin Faulk. I think he’s very underrated. However, I never said he was a regular user. Maybe just for the concert he thought, and that’s why he would test positive.
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July 9th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I wonder if he got the four blunts back? Who got them? The court clerk? Or the Judge?
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July 9th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
“Faulk previously claimed that the coat contained four hand-rolled marijuana cigars wasn’t his”
This guy likes his ganja blunts and plenty.
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July 9th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
@ampats,LMAO!
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July 9th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
“hand-rolled marijuana cigars.”
Florio, are you too white to write the word “blunt”???
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July 9th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
I heard it was really John Tomase’s jacket.
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July 10th, 2008 at 1:23 am
you’re kidding me, right? 5 months for 4 joints? does he have priors? 4 joints can’t possibly be intent to sell… i know people who smoked 4 joints a night in college.
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