Ray Rice Wins Appeal And Can Play Now
Wife beater Ray Rice has won his appeal according to ESPN.com. The former Baltimore Raven can now sign and play with any team right now if a team wants him.
According to ESPN.com, this news broke today (11/28), Ray Rice has won his appeal of an indefinite suspension and has been reinstated to the NFL. If a team wants him, he can play now.
An NFL spokesman, when asked by ESPN's Andrew Brandt if the league would pursue any further action against Rice, said: "We, of course, accept the ruling as binding."
Whether Rice is entitled to back pay for game checks he missed during his suspension will be determined in a separate proceeding through the grievance filed against the Ravens by the NFLPA on behalf of Rice.
U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones said Ray Rice did not lie or mislead the NFL.
"In so holding, I find that the NFLPA carried its burden of showing that Rice did not mislead the Commissioner at the June 16th meeting, and therefore, that the imposition of a second suspension based on the same incident and the same known facts about the incident, was arbitrary," Jones' decision stated.
"[T]he Commissioner needed to be fair and consistent in his imposition of discipline. ... Moreover, any failure on the part of the League to understand the level of violence was not due to Rice's description of the event but to the inadequacy of words to convey the seriousness of domestic violence. That the League did not realize the severity of the conduct without a visual record also speaks to their admitted failure in the past to sanction this type of conduct more severely."
Without a doubt, this ruling is causing a lot of talk in and out of the sport and even here locally in Bismarck.
Do you agree with the ruling?
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