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So let's start with Charles Mediaco, the 19 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 1: now former and maybe future Alabama Crimson Tide basketball player 20 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 1: who has been told no by the courts, you're not eligible, 21 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: You're not going to be able to play. A rare 22 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 1: win for the nc double A. Does this mean that 23 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: the door for him playing college basketball is permanently closed? 24 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 2: It sounds like it. It could certainly be challenged, but 25 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 2: it sounds like it. The n C double A got 26 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 2: a big win here, mo win that they that they 27 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 2: really needed. And his case was a bit different from 28 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 2: some of these other G League players. You know, he 29 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 2: was already you know, he'd already played college basketball. The 30 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 2: n C double A wanted to set this line. Hey, 31 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 2: it's you go to the draft and stay in after playing, 32 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 2: you're done. And they finally got a court to agree 33 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 2: with them. We'll see if it holds up, but it's 34 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 2: pretty good precedent for the n C double A. Here 35 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 2: is an injunction was set to expire, very very unlikely 36 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: that that this could be put back on to where 37 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 2: he could play before the end of the seat, and 38 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 2: the NCAA picked up a pretty good president setting win here. 39 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: What is the likelihood that the NCAA could get together 40 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 1: with lawmakers and create a set of rules that can't 41 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 1: be challenged in court. 42 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 2: Tough to say, It's not all federal law. There's the 43 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 2: laws of every state which the NCAA operates, which is 44 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 2: all fifty states as well too. It would be a 45 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 2: very difficult thing to do, quite frankly, if there was 46 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:29,399 Speaker 2: a way to do it, I'm sure they probably would 47 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 2: have done so by now. 48 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: All right, So Charles Bediaco's college basketball two point zero 49 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: dream is at least deferred in maybe dead. Let's talk 50 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: about something that's a little bit more serious. Explain to 51 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: me why former Red Yesel Puigue may end up spending 52 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: a lot of time in prison. 53 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,519 Speaker 2: Well, he got a convicted of obstruction of justice and 54 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 2: line the prosecutors, he's facing fifteen years in prison for this, 55 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 2: just went to a jury trial over it lost and 56 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,239 Speaker 2: now he's at the mercy of a of a may 57 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 2: senten scene right now, moo. So he's he's stated it 58 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 2: a lot right now and all of his own doing. 59 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,679 Speaker 1: What are what are the sentencing possibilities here? Because I've 60 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: read you know what the maximum is is likely to 61 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: not necessarily match what the actual sentence turns out to be. 62 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 2: That's exactly right. I mean the maximum that he's safety 63 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 2: years is fifteen years. I'm not sure what prior criminal 64 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 2: convictions he has, you know, he played in the MLB 65 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 2: for so many years. I'm guessing that he's probably relatively light. 66 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 2: If any prior contacts with the court, that's going to 67 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 2: be taken into consideration. I know that his defense was 68 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 2: trying to state that he, you know, didn't fully understand 69 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 2: the linguist language and didn't have Council of Criminal counsel 70 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 2: with him present in the meeting where he you know, 71 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 2: lied to officials re least convicted of you know, lying 72 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 2: to officials and a meeting about his illegal gambling. Certainly 73 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 2: that's it's not an excuse, but it's an explanation. It 74 00:03:58,040 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 2: is mitigation to some extent. 75 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: How often that's good. 76 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 2: They've got him in on what's that message? Most you 77 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 2: know say same flat out that he lied to him. 78 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 2: So there's certainly no cooperation here, and the charges are 79 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 2: effectively that he didn't cooperate. So that's not a good 80 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:13,119 Speaker 2: fact for him. 81 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: Whether it's a case like this, My apologies for interrupting, 82 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 1: but whether it's a case like this or or or 83 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: a different type of case, you know you mentioned there's 84 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: language barriers. Yes, El Puigue I believe has the equivalent 85 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: of a third grade education. That's by his own admission. 86 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: How often are barriers like that taken into consideration when 87 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: it comes to sentencing or even guilty or not guilty. 88 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 2: It's mitigation to something it's not guilt, or in a 89 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 2: sense it's mitigation. Certainly in court there would be an 90 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 2: interpreter available for all court proceedings. I'm not sure exactly 91 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 2: of the of the factors in that specific interview in 92 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 2: which these charges originated from and the you know, conviction 93 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 2: ultimately came from, but it would be taken into consider 94 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 2: for mitigation here for his seventeen purposes. 95 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 1: Yes, Helpwig last played in the big leagues in twenty nineteen, 96 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: but he has been an active player internationally. He is 97 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: awaiting sentencing. Is he now not able to go play 98 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: in another country while he awaits it? Or can he 99 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 1: be allowed to go play with the assumption that he's 100 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: going to come back when he finally has to stand 101 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: in front of a judge. 102 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 2: Absolutely, this could prevent him from going overseas and playing overseas. 103 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 2: You're now convicted federal selling. You have a seventeen coming 104 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 2: up in three months one. I don't know if the 105 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 2: team is going to touch here. He is a United 106 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 2: States citizen. He did become a United States citizen in 107 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, so he does have that. But yes, this 108 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 2: is absolutely going to affect his ability to travel and 109 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 2: play baseball this season and perhaps beyond. 110 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: Attorney Stewart W. Penrose from the Manila Law Group joins 111 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: us to talk about sports and the law every Tuesday. 112 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: This is a case that we started talking about in November. 113 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 1: The two Cleveland Guardians, pitchers Emmanuel Klaus and Luis Ortiz. 114 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: While their teammates are getting set to report to spring 115 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: training in goodyear, they are staring at the possibility of 116 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: as many as sixty five years in prison. And it's 117 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: interesting apparently the story came out this week Classe in 118 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: particular was rigging pitches in more games than it was 119 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: originally believed. Walk me through this case and does the 120 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 1: story that came out this week perhaps make the punishment 121 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: he faces more severe? 122 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 2: Absolutely, it makes it more severe. Essencely, the what they're 123 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 2: coming out and saying is that he participated in this 124 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 2: scheme and up to forty eight games and apparently something 125 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 2: around two hundred and fifty pitches. And this is not 126 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 2: some low level MLB player. He was a star. He 127 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 2: was an All star and a very very elite reliever. 128 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 2: This is a big whale for the government to get here, 129 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 2: much more so than his teammate. Yes, he's facing significant 130 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 2: time here. What ultimately happens with that, I don't know expectedly, 131 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 2: since she has probably a little to know prior contacts 132 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 2: with the But this is a he's a big six 133 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 2: that they're trying to get here, and this is a 134 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 2: very significant news that you know, shows much more involvement 135 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 2: than we thought he had before. 136 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: Can you outline for me the trouble that Falcons linebacker 137 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: James Pierce faces in the aftermath of his arrest in 138 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: Miami for felony, aggravated battery and fleeing police. 139 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 2: Well, the allegations on this one are crazy. I mean, 140 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 2: the allegations are that he's stalking his ex girlfriend and apparently, 141 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 2: uh you know, was put at gunpoint by a cop 142 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 2: to be to be arrested, gets back in his car 143 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 2: and drives off and hits the cop with in his knee. 144 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 2: So the the allegations here are awful for him, just awful. 145 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 2: And again, this is a this was an elite rookie, 146 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 2: bright future ahead of him, and he still may have 147 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 2: a bright future ahead of him, who knows, but he's 148 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 2: got a significant challenge to go through here. I cannot 149 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 2: imagine this won't end in some sort of felony charges 150 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 2: here given this disobedience to the officer hitting the officer. 151 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 2: The level of injury the officer has here is going 152 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 2: to be crucial. If he alleges a serious injury, that's 153 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 2: gonna make his charges go up here and he'll be 154 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 2: facing a lot. 155 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly looks like it. Awesome insight as always, my friend, 156 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Thank you Mo. That's our guy. Our 157 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: legal expert attorney Stuart W. Penrose make sure you learn 158 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: more at manilolawgroup dot com. Joins us every Tuesday at 159 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: four thirty five. The Charles Bettiaco case. The sincere hope 160 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: is that there's a way for the NCAA to work 161 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: with the government to come up with rules that can't 162 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,959 Speaker 1: be as beaten down in court as often as they 163 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: have been in the past. It is a quarter to five. 164 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: We're gonna go to Goodyear coming up in five oh five. 165 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: Pat Brennan's there, our guy. Pat Brennan's carved out some 166 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,719 Speaker 1: time for us, which is awesome. At you Haneos Suarez 167 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: and many of his teammates in Goodyear getting set for 168 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: a workout tomorrow. 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