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Justin Blackmon arrested for aggravated DUI
Posted by Evan Silva on June 3, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
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The Tulsa World reports that Jaguars rookie wide receiver Justin Blackmon was arrested on a complaint of aggravated DUI early Sunday in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Details are scant at this point, though Blackmon was booked into Payne County Jail at 10 a.m. Sunday morning. Per Oklahoma law, an “aggravated” DUI occurs when the driver has a blood-alcohol content of .15 or greater.

Blackmon was also charged with a DUI at Oklahoma State.

In April, the Jaguars traded up to select Blackmon with the fifth overall pick in the draft.
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What a waste of talent.

WOW sucks to be the Jags.

Is he subject to a 4 game suspension? I don't think he's signed yet, so I'm not sure he's bound by the CBA yet.

Wow. To think how close we came to having him as a Brown.

I said it before, and I'll say it again ..... I am really curious to see how much of an impact he has on the Jags, especially compared to the impact Weeden has on the Browns.

QB or WR? Which has the biggest impact on the other? We'll see.

Booked at 10am??? Wonder if he was still out from Saturday... Or if he'd slept and was just still drunk from the night before.

Are they sure it's Blackmon?

That guy doesn't look anything like a football player. LOL...

Say it ain't so, Justin! I'll justify this in my mind by saying he was drinking because he's playing for the Jags and not the Browns.

In all seriousness, there's no excuse for this type of thing. I hope that he can get his head straight.

He's not looking very thrilled in that mug shot

Well, that didn't take long.

His draft profile came with red flags...

here is a fun link
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I probably helps his street cred.

Well ... I don't know what the laws are in Oklahoma regarding aggravated drunk driving ...... but I would bet that they carry some jail time as a consequence.

Ummmm ..... he blew a .24????? Yeah ... there's some jail time in his future.

He was pulled over at 3 am according to this article. From the description, it's probably a good thing he was pulled over, because he might have wound up killing himself, or someone else, the way he was driving.

Justin Blackmon's blood alcohol was three times limit - NFL.com
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82..._headline_stack

The story behind Justin Blackmon's Sunday morning DUI arrest in Stillwater, Okla., isn't getting any prettier.

Stillwater police spokesman Capt. Randy Dickerson confirmed to NFL.com that the former Oklahoma State wide receiver smelled of alcohol when an officer pulled him over shortly after 3 a.m. local time. Blackmon agreed to take a breathalyzer test and blew a .24 -- three times the state's legal limit.

Under Oklahoma law, a BAC above .15 constitutes the charge of aggravated DUI. It can be prosecuted as a felony or misdemeanor.

Blackmon, the Jacksonville Jaguars' first-round draft pick, was released from jail Sunday afternoon on $1,000 bond. He's due in court Monday.

Stillwater police tried to pull over Blackmon for speeding -- he was clocked at 60 mph in a 35-mph zone -- and driving left of center early Sunday morning. Blackmon drove about four blocks before stopping in a gas-station parking lot.

"He was unsteady on his feet, his speech was slurred, and his eyes were glassy and blood shot," Dickerson said in a statement. "He admitted to consuming alcohol prior to driving."

Not a good situation for Blackmon or his new team. It will be interesting to see the legal road ahead for Blackmon, who's now a two-time DUI offender.

I just ran the numbers in a BAC calculator.

Blackmon is 205#. Assuming that he was drinking for 4 hours straight in a bar, (or somewhere) and drinking drinks with a shot of liquor in each one ...... he would have to drink ..... get ready ...... 17 drinks in a 4 hour period for him to blow a .24. If it was half an hour since his last drink, reasonable if he was stopped at 3 am, then his BAC would have dropped about .01 in that 1/2 hour or so time frame.

Just to put things in perspective.

Why is he wearing a bengals' uni in that mugshot?

He had a DUI in October of 2010. This is his 2nd in less than 2 years.

That's scary territory if I'm the Jaguars.

There were a few hushed reports prior to the draft that the Browns weren't going to draft Blackmon because they had some concerns about him. Then the Browns said all the nice things about he he was a talent, and how, of course they would consider him with their pick ......

Regardless, 2 DUIs in less than 2 years is a major concern ..... and I'm glad that it's another team's concern.

He could get some jail time for this one. getting arrested twice for dui in such a short period of time combined with having that high of a level of alchol in his system is the kinda stuff many judges are hitting hard now days. Mothers against drunk drivers have changed the game. I would say its 50/50 odds as to him being on the field or in jail on opening day.

I would guess that he probably gets 90 days, with all but maybe 7 days suspended against good behavior, enforced through probation. If he has another arrest for alcohol, he goes back in for the balance of his sentence. So he'll do his short sentence, and the team will hope and pray that he doesn't screw up again and wind up in jail.

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Justin Blackmon arrested for aggravated DUI

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jc..

When judging draft talent, character does figure into the evaluation and some NFL teams put more emphasis on character than other teams.

At this moment, I'm extremely happy about the Browns moving up in the draft to take Richardson rather than staying at 4 with Blackmon being our likely choice.

You can't fix stupid, no matter how much coaching or training.

Damn, we sure dodged a bullet that time.. wow and Whew.

It is funny but we dodged 2 big bullets in the last 2 drafts. We were really high on Nick Fairley and then when we spent time with him we backed off. We were really high on Blackmon, spent some time with him and backed off. Someone has a good eye for bad apples. Remember same time we took 2 guys with off the field issues in Taylor and Sheard who have been model citizens.

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Blackmon was previously arrested on a misdemeanor DUI charge in Texas in 2010 after officers caught him speeding on a suburban Dallas highway.

He told reporters after the arrest that he made a mistake and took full responsibility for it.

"I'm embarrassed to be in this position," Blackmon said. "I'm truly sorry to my family, to my friends and to Oklahoma State all together. I look forward to redeeming myself and proving to everybody that this isn't who I am. I'm not this guy. I'm humbled by this experience and I will grow from it."

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I can only guess that his growth from this previous incident was stunted.

So where are the Blackmon Boy's??

At this point in his career, could we call him a wasted draft pick?


In my best Stewie Griffin voice: "Oh, that was in bad taste."

Substance-abuse policy permits suspension of Blackmon
Posted by Mike Florio on June 3, 2012, 7:46 PM EDT
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Early Sunday, Jaguars receiver Justin Blackmon landed in the back seat of a cruiser after being arrested for DUI. Breath testing revealed a sloppy-drunk 0.24 blood alcohol concentration.

Blackmon has since made bail, but both the player and the team has been silent.

Presumably, the Jaguars will issue at some point a perfunctory statement expressing disappointment and/or concern, and deferring further comment until the legal process is concluded. (In other words, even if owner Shahid Khan is shocked and/or perplexed, it’s highly unlikely that he’ll say so.)

But the league office will have the last word. Blackmon is subject to discipline under the substance-abuse policy. (The fact that he has yet to sign a contract won’t protect him; the moment he was drafted, Blackmon became subject to all league policies.) Under the policy, any disposition reflecting responsibility of any kind for the alleged crime exposes Blackmon to “a fine, suspension, or other appropriate discipline.”

The policy states that, “[a]bsent aggravating circumstances, discipline for a first offense will generally be a fine of two-seventeenths (2/17)” of his base salary, up to a maximum of $50,000. The problem for Blackmon is the phrase “aggravating circumstances,” which are defined by the policy as “including but not limited to felonious conduct or serious injury or death of third parties, and/or if the player has had prior drug or alcohol-related misconduct.” If there are “aggravating circumstances, “increased discipline up to and including suspension may be imposed.”

Blackmon has “prior . . . alcohol-related misconduct,” thanks to a DUI incident in college that resulted in a fine. Though the league apparently has abandoned the practice of disciplining players for pre-NFL behavior that results in a judicial resolution after the player’s NFL career has begun, the league wouldn’t be punishing Blackmon for his past DUI. Instead, the NFL would be taking his history into account when meting out discipline for the more recent incident.

And since the appeal of the league’s punishment of Blackmon will be handled by the league, the league ultimately will be able to do whatever it wants to do.

So if the league chooses to suspend discipline, the league can do it. web page

While I am in no way excusing the dooie.. I'm perplexed the league thinks it can sanction Blackmon. To my thinking, he's not under contract and he's no different than my next door neighbor. I just don't see the league's legal grounds.

The Jags drafted him.. yea.. so?? No contract.. no Jag. He's just like anyone else.

He doesn't have to be discipline. He also doesn't have to be in the NFL.

I'm not a lawyer, but if I was one I would have advised him not to let them test his blood alc or speak until I got there which would have been sometime later the next day. What's the worst that could have happened? He would have had his license suspended which he neither needs nor deserves.

Usually the best decisions aren't made while intoxicated. Also, I don't think the lawyer has to be present for a blood test. They just have to take him back to the station, which might give him more time to recover.

Once he is drafted he is considered part of the NFL under the CBA,and subject to the rules of the NFL and CBA ... including behavior, legal, and substance abuse related clauses.