Seven Jackson State players arrested for sexual misconduct


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Who is left to play?

November 13, 2001

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Seven Jackson State basketball players and
another male student were arrested Tuesday and charged with sexual battery
and rape.

The university had suspended several players on Monday after a female
student filed a formal complaint last week.

Sophomore guard Damien Smith and Cedric Gilbert are charged with sexual
battery and rape and were being held at the Hinds County jail on $100,000
bond.

Gilbert, 22, is not a member of the basketball team, according to the
school's athletic department.

Senior forwards Richard Bradley and Brian Nichols and junior guard Robin
Lucas were charged with sexual battery and were being held on $50,000
bond.

Bradley led the team in scoring and rebounding last season and Nichols
started 18 games.

Freshman guard Jerome Bracy and sophomore guards Reginald Taylor and
John Chandler are charged with rape and were being held on $50,000
bond.

Chandler started nine games last season.

The Jackson State athletic office referred all questions to the school's public
relations department.

Public relations director Jean Frazier said the players arrested would remain
on suspension pending the outcome of the case. She said the university had
no further comment.

``We don't want to taint the process,'' she said. ``We want the case to have
its full merits by being played out in the courts.''

Jackson State had just nine players available Monday for an exhibition game
against Tougaloo, which the Tigers won 79-60.

Jackson State opens the regular season Saturday at Southern Mississippi.
 
Now this is really pathetic...

I don't know the whole story....
All we know is that they were charged. Not that I defend anyone regarding this kind of scenario, but it has happened before....

Nonetheless, this does not look good....

Damage control, where r u?
 



I read about that in the paper this morning up here in Albany, New York. It seems the press is quick to get something on a HBCU quick fast and in a hurry.
 
November 15, 2001

Affidavit details JSU assault allegations


By Jimmie E. Gates
Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer

A Jackson State University basketball player charged with rape helped investigators identify teammates who allegedly had sex with a female student at a dorm on Friday, a court affidavit says.

In the woman's affidavit, she says that after she had consensual sex with JSU sophomore basketball player Reginald Earl Taylor, several other men entered the room at Jones-Sampson Dormitory.

The woman said she was pinned down in the dark and was "sexually assaulted and continually raped by several members of the basketball team."

The Clarion-Ledger does not identify victims of alleged sexual assault.

She said she could hear recognizable voices and saw the silhouette of a person she also recognized.

Taylor, who admitted he was in the room, later told investigators who else was there and what sexual acts they performed, according to the affidavit.

The incident allegedly occurred between midnight and 5 a.m. Friday.

Charged with rape and sexual battery are Damien Darrell Smith, 19, and Cedric Antwan Gilbert, 22.

Charged with rape are Taylor, 20, John Matthew Chandler, 19, and Jerome Maurice Bracey, 18, the only suspect who is not a member of the basketball team.

Charged with sexual battery are Brian Kyle Nichols, 22, Robin Christopher Lucas, 20, and Richard Carl Bradley, 23.

Sexual battery carries a maximum sentence of 40 years. A rape conviction carries up to life in prison.

The woman said after she had sex with Taylor, he left the room. She said she saw someone in the shadows outside the window of the first-floor room and, when Taylor came back, he told her his roommate needed to get some things from the room.

"The room was dark and I could not see who was inside. An unknown subject approached me and put his hands over my eyes as Reginald Taylor held me down on the bed. I recognized several voices of the individuals in the room ... several of the subjects had sexual intercourse with me," the alleged victim's statement says.

After an initial court appearance on Wednesday, Jackson attorney Herbert Lee, who represents six of the accused, urged people "not to rush to judgment."

Bradley's attorney, Joe Hollomon of Jackson, said, "From everything I know about Richard, this is inconsistent with his character. I hope people will withhold from making a conclusion about this case."

Taylor's attorney, Thandi Wade of Jackson, said he would wait until his client was out of jail before making any comment.

All eight suspects were still in jail Wednesday night. Bond initially was set at $50,000 for each count, with Smith and Gilbert facing $100,000 bonds on the two charges.

But at Wednesday afternoon's hearing, Hinds County Judge Bobby DeLaughter said he would reduce the bonds to $10,000 each, but not until receiving a signed order from the district attorney or until a preliminary hearing.

Reached by telephone, District Attorney Faye Peterson, who was out of town, said she would agree to the $10,000 bonds because none of the suspects has felony records.

DeLaughter said he has "never refused to sign an agreed order, but it's not a matter handled by telephone."

In Peterson's absence, DeLaughter said, there had been confusion in the district attorney's office about reducing the bond. A junior assistant agreed to the lower bond, but a senior staffer refused to go along with it.

No prosecutor was present for the men's court appearance. Peterson said there should have been.

Peterson said she doesn't expect the case to be presented immediately to a grand jury.

"It's too detailed for us to submit it right away," Peterson said. "We have to gather forensic evidence."

Peterson said she wouldn't know until after she returned from Biloxi whether a rape kit was done on the alleged victim.

Meanwhile, Jackson State University has suspended the players from the team, but said they can continue classes.

DeLaughter said a stipulation for bond is that the students remain in school. He also said they cannot have contact with the woman or commit any crimes.

JSU President Ronald Mason Jr., in a prepared statement, expressed disappointment in the situation. "I will not comment on alleged criminal acts because they are a matter for the judicial system," Mason said. "However, the admitted conduct is clearly a violation of the University's Student Code of Conduct and moral standards of the Jackson State University community."

Mason said the presence of a female in a men's residence hall after approved visitation hours and acts of sexual intercourse in the dormitory are violations.

The students face disciplinary action and administrative sanctions from the university, Mason said.

Disciplinary action could include expulsion, according to the JSU Student Handbook.

JSU student Armanthia Duncan, 19, said she thinks the incident has already tainted the university's image.

"It's an ugly situation," Duncan, of New Orleans, said.

Duncan said she is an acquaintance of the alleged victim and also knows three of those accused.

"I am not going to take her side ... or their side," Duncan said.

Alesia Reed, 20, vice president of the junior class, said she is not "going to let the action of a few individuals shape and mold the image of the university."

She said many students are concerned and want to know more about what happened. They are asking, "How did this happen at Jackson State?"
 
Im gonna reserve judgement on what I think happened. Its good to see Bobby Delaughter is the Judge... He was the prosecutor that convicted byron De la Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers.

What I can say is that nobody deserves to be raped. Its too many willing participants for anybody to be taking puddin. If guilty, I hope all of them get throwed under the jail. But she didnt have no business in the basketball dorm.
 
Originally posted by J-State Tiger
Im gonna reserve judgement on what I think happened. Its good to see Bobby Delaughter is the Judge... He was the prosecutor that convicted byron De la Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers.
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I wouldn't be too quick to sing the praises of Delaughter.
 
Just the pub makes this sad.

To think these brothers make even get raped in prison, for allegedly raping someone outside.

I got daughters and this really distrubs me.
 
Originally posted by J-State Tiger

What I can say is that nobody deserves to be raped. Its too many willing participants for anybody to be taking puddin. If guilty, I hope all of them get throwed under the jail. But she didnt have no business in the basketball dorm.
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I was feelin ya until your last comment JST. Despite the location, she was in the basketball dorm to be with one individual. Instead, she was set up and violated. Rape is a hell of a price to pay for being in a basketball dorm.

I suppose Taylor felt like a "pimp" that night and elected to set her out for his boys. If this accusation proves true, I hope the real pimps in lockdown "set him out" in the same identical fashion.
 
Sorry to say, but Jackson State has dropped the ball on this one.

Those fellas, according to the two articles, will be allowed to re-enter school as "regular" students. Question. Shouldn't they at least be suspended from the school until the final verdict has been handed, not just suspened from the basketball team. A "regular student" who fights on most campuses is suspended from a university. Why the double standard here? Isn't JSU sending the wrong statement to the ladies of JSU and the rest of the community. And what if the young lady is still in school, what are the chances that she may bump into them at the college?

Does anyone else see this or am i off the mark on this?
 
Originally posted by BIFF



I was feelin ya until your last comment JST. Despite the location, she was in the basketball dorm to be with one individual. Instead, she was set up and violated. Rape is a hell of a price to pay for being in a basketball dorm.

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We dont know what she was in there for Biff. What we do know is that she wasnt supposed to be in there at all. JSU Dorms arent co-ed. Im not saying it was right, but at some point people have to take some resopnsibility for their own safety. It would be like me going to a klan rally with a white friend who wasnt racist and saying "well i was just there with Bob and then the others started hitting me." It wouldnt be right for them to hit me, but...

So Much for innocent Until proven guilty in the SWAC
 
Originally posted by J-State Tiger
It would be like me going to a klan rally
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That'a a bad comparison JST!

Why would you and your " white friend who wasn't racist" go to a klan rally?

Let's not pretend that just because dorms dont have inner room visitation that it's not happening.
 
Originally posted by mighty hornet

That'a a bad comparison JST!
Let's not pretend that just because dorms dont have inner room visitation that it's not happening.
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I don't think it was a bad comparison at all. This young lady was in violation of the school code. Whether it happens or not (and I know it was happening when I was there) is not the issue, the point is she was in the wrong place at any time. I in no way am condoning what these people did, but according to your logic, we also can't pretend that young ladies are not having group sex with males by their own will or against their will.

As for the students being suspended, I don't think they should be. They have a right to an education just like the young lady. We must now go on the premise of guilty until proven innocent, so these students cannot be penalized of an education (their primary purpose there) because of hearsay evidence. Let's wait until it pans out.

Quite honestly all were wrong and even the young lady will be expelled probably for having sex with the one young man.
 
Originally posted by Bengal E ]

I don't think it was a bad comparison at all. This young lady was in violation of the school code. Whether it happens or not (and I know it was happening when I was there) is not the issue, the point is she was in the wrong place at any time. I in no way am condoning what these people did, but according to your logic, we also can't pretend that young ladies are not having group sex with males by their own will or against their will.
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The reason why I think it is a bad comparison is because what black person would go to a klan rally? None
Now how many of us snuck in the girls dorm back in the day?? Most, if not all, of us

Absolutely no comparison whatsoever.


I agree the young lady violated the school policy or whatever. But by doing so, she did not forfeit her right to say no.
 



MH,

I agree. She did not forfeit her right to say no. Now alot of us snuck up in the girls dorm and vice-versa and how many of us know of girls who got "set out" or there were guys hiding in the closet or under the bed, or snuck in. etc. You know what I'm saying. A lot too...

We really don't know what happened. I'm just sorry it did.

As for the blacks at the Klan rally, you'd be surprised.....;)
 
But MH I dont forfeit my right not to get beat up just because I show up at a Klan Rally. The point isnt the right and wrong of what allegedly happend, but the wisdom of even putting yourself in the situation.
 
Kind of like, "If the beyotch didn't want to get hit, she should've ran!" huh?

No, means, No!!!! No matter what the situation is.

NICE
 
Actually there is some dispute as to whether it was rape because there is word of her being wilfully flipped on previous occasions.
 
Bein a "freak" is no crime. "Baby Girl" can get flipped all she wants. This time she obviously didnt want to to get flipped. Bottom line: No means no. Why freak everyone else and then call foul (no pun intended) when it's the basketball team's turn?

It doesnt matter if you have the sexual history of Mother Teresa or Vanessa Del Rio. If the spoon is unwanted, you best take it elsewhere for a deposit.

Judging by the article...the fellas are already fessin up on one another. Oh well, thats why we have court, lawyers, and judges.
 
Originally posted by BIFF
Bein a "freak" is no crime. "Baby Girl" can get flipped all she wants. This time she obviously didnt want to to get flipped. Bottom line: No means no. Why freak everyone else and then call foul (no pun intended) when it's the basketball team's turn?

It doesnt matter if you have the sexual history of Mother Teresa or Vanessa Del Rio. If the spoon is unwanted, you best take it elsewhere for a deposit.

Judging by the article...the fellas are already fessin up on one another. Oh well, thats why we have court, lawyers, and judges.
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Whose to say she didn't get flipped this time because it was said she was going to get flipped this particular. But when she realized her walls were all messed up or that there were 1 or 2 peeps she didn't expect to be there, she cried rape.
 
Yeah i've seen that happen quite a few times......shawties give up the panties then cry rape after the fact. You cant really say anything if you don't know what happened for a fact.
 
Originally posted by unknown1
Yeah i've seen that happen quite a few times......shawties give up the panties then cry rape after the fact. You cant really say anything if you don't know what happened for a fact.
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That's what I'm trying to say. Once a women calls rape they migt as well put a big arse stamp, letter, or brand on a guys head for life.
 
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