Patriots/NFL 2023 Pre-Season - DA drops gun charges against Patriots CB Jack Jones
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BigBadBruins7708
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Ummm, no. Non violent gun crimes rarely get prosecuted, this isnt some 2nd set of rules situation.
Around 10% of all gun charges end in a conviction and low level ones like possession dont always involve an arrest let alone a trial and charges.
That 10% figure is for ALL types of gun charges, including common traffic stops.
Airports are different.
Cases involving guys with a criminal record like him are different.
He got "lucky".
KrejciMVP
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I will also reiterate that while I think Jones is a dumbass and got lucky I don't think the league should get involved at this point.
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The fact the DA dropped the charges tells me the league already got involved.
Heh. Now that you say that, Jack Jones is on a rookie deal. I wonder if teams are allowed to help pay for legal fees.
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Bringing guns into an airport is a WHOLE different ball game. He got off lucky.
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If he were just another kid from Roxbury and not a pro athlete he'd still be in the Suffolk County county jail awaiting processing today
BigBadBruins7708
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No, he'd be exactly where he's at now. People need to drop the idea that the courts are hard on gun offenses. They aren't.
Best example I could find quickly googling is NYC. Here's a breakdown of all gun related arrests in 2021:
4,456 arrests
1,784 cases pending
1,200 cases dismissed due to the DA declining to prosecute
711 convictions with most being plea deals
1 conviction as the result of a trial
Another couple more quick ones, in Philly in 2021 only 36% of all gun charges resulted in a conviction or plea deal meaning 64% were dropped. In Chicago only 35% of all felony firearm possession cases resulted in jail time.
NYC, Philly and Chicago are some of the toughest places in terms of firearm regulation and laws.
You are incorrectly forgetting that he brought them into an AIRPORT, and TSA confiscated them. You cannot do that. They don't play f***ing games like that. If you did what he did, you'd be in jail. That's the truth.
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So many people in this country have so many guns - I think some folks forget it's really the norm. Sounds like he bought em legally and made an honest mistake.
Legal expert in the video I shared above says we’d be surprised how often it happens at Logan and that they’re usually not prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and are not given the mandatory minimum in prison. It’s a much different situation than if he were to get pulled over and had it under his seat, for instance
So as someone who's been in the industry a long time, yeah undeclared guns at the airport happens a BUNCH. It's scary how much it happens, lol.
TSA does treat it seriously, but if there's no intent there's usually not jail time from what I understand. Civil penalties, yes.
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TSA does treat it seriously, but if there's no intent there's usually not jail time from what I understand. Civil penalties, yes.
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KrejciMVP
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happens all the time I read now. like forgetting your keys or wallet
A slap on the wrist seems to be happening for a lot of things these days.
I'll be honest: the Jack Jones thing is whatever in my book. He shouldn't have been trying to do it and got caught, and now he got a get out of jail free card. Good for him; hopefully this gives him a little wisdom and doesn't do it again.
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This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. How is having a gun under your seat of your own car deemed more dangerous than carrying a loaded weapon on to a plane where people are sitting ducks if you chose to do something on the plane? Hey, someone could easily tell a cop that he didn't put the gun under his seat. Someone else did it!
I haven't seen people on here calling Jones a bad guy because of this. But it's still incredibly stupid to have this happen. It's not an "honest mistake" like losing your keys or something. Making the mistake of possibly getting on to a plane with a loaded weapon is something that should never, ever happen. There should be more accountability than what we saw happen.
What if Plaxico Burress claimed he didn't know the gun was on him? Would that have worked?
The problem is Jack Jones has been doing stupid shit for years and it hasn't cost him a whole lot. Maybe draft positioning but he's still in the NFL with the ability to make a lot of money. That would require him to keep his shit together going forward though. I wouldn't count on that.
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