📡 Alabama deputy AD Matt Self was arrested Sunday by Tuscaloosa police and charged with third-degree domestic violence. Self ... leads compliance dept.

[RTB X Bot]

 

[24and7]

Domestic violence is the easiest charge to get arrested for…

 

[alabama mike]

If he is a lawyer like it’s stated, he should know how to represent himself. Hopefully, this arrest was not against a wife or girlfriend.

 

[SnakeDoc]

If he is a lawyer like it’s stated, he should know how to represent himself. Hopefully, this arrest was not against a wife or girlfriend.

How does that make it better?

 

[TerryP]

If he is a lawyer like it’s stated, he should know how to represent himself. Hopefully, this arrest was not against a wife or girlfriend.

How does that make it better?

He's got a point.

The same charge could be applied for you cussing your brother-in-law for some BS he pulled at Christmas dinner. Third degree applies to harassing communications and it can apply all the way down to a room mate, of no relation, who you threatened because they were stealing your stuff.

Domestic violence is the easiest charge to get arrested for…

... and it's reinforced here, @SnakeDoc

The charge has such a broad umbrella it's a quick "go-to" for LEO.

---

---

Perhaps, until we know more, we can let this sort its own way out?

 

[50+yeartidefan]

And....people get pissed and know ways to "get you"

And some of those "gettings" can be unfounded but still have long term affects

 

[24and7]

He's got a point.

The same charge could be applied for you cussing your brother-in-law for some BS he pulled at Christmas dinner. Third degree applies to harassing communications and it can apply all the way down to a room mate, of no relation, who you threatened because they were stealing your stuff.


... and it's reinforced here, @SnakeDoc

The charge has such a broad umbrella it's a quick "go-to" for LEO.

---

---

Perhaps, until we know more, we can let this sort its own way out?

Correct…
The federal government insist states make such broad domestic violence law charges to disarm people… once you are convicted of any form of domestic violence charge, you become prohibited from owning firearms by federal and most state laws…

 

[TerryP]

Correct…
The federal government insist states make such broad domestic violence law charges to disarm people… once you are convicted of any form of domestic violence charge, you become prohibited from owning firearms by federal and most state laws…

In SC, I believe a DM charge would have to result in a conviction—that charge also being of a felony variety—along with jail time for weapons to be prohibited. Although, I may have the SC law confused with mandatory DNA samples in cases of felonies with prison time.

I'm thinking these laws differ from the state to state; I can't say for sure.

 

[alabama mike]

How does that make it better?

By him being a lawyer and knowing the ins and outs of law.

 

[SnakeDoc]

By him being a lawyer and knowing the ins and outs of law.

Doesn't that make it worse? As in he should know better?

 

[alabama mike]

Doesn't that make it worse? As in he should know better?

He should know better and probably does but he also should know all the legal jargon and things he can do.

 

[Rolltide24]

I see where Henry Ruggs pleaded guilty to some of his charges in a plea deal today. He’ll go to state prison for 3-10 years. You look back on some of these cases and think about all the money he paid attorneys and ended up pleading guilty. I’m sure the attorney helped get a lesser sentence, but any lesser than a cheaper attorney? I think he’s doing the right thing. I had an old acquaintance get caught in a sting, he was guilty, terrible act, unspeakable act. He spent all his and his wife’s savings on legal fees to fight the case when all of us around him encouraged him to plead guilty (because he was). He went to court and lost, and got a longer sentence than the others in the sting that plead guilty got. And his wife had little money left and had to go back to work, in her 60’s.

Another acquaintance was a former basketball coach at a private high school in Nashville. Some former players accused him of some misdeeds. Bad stuff, awful stuff. No one could believe it, but then more and more stories started coming in. He spent his savings and any money his wife made in her good job paying attorneys for 2 years, getting delays and filing motions and planning their case. Hundreds of thousands in total all the while he was not working. The day before the trial was finally about to start, he plead guilty and admitted it all.

 

[SnakeDoc]

He should know better and probably does but he also should know all the legal jargon and things he can do.

If he's smart, he'll hire someone else to defend him.

 

[BamaFan334]

I see where Henry Ruggs pleaded guilty to some of his charges in a plea deal today. He’ll go to state prison for 3-10 years. You look back on some of these cases and think about all the money he paid attorneys and ended up pleading guilty. I’m sure the attorney helped get a lesser sentence, but any lesser than a cheaper attorney? I think he’s doing the right thing. I had an old acquaintance get caught in a sting, he was guilty, terrible act, unspeakable act. He spent all his and his wife’s savings on legal fees to fight the case when all of us around him encouraged him to plead guilty (because he was). He went to court and lost, and got a longer sentence than the others in the sting that plead guilty got. And his wife had little money left and had to go back to work, in her 60’s.

Another acquaintance was a former basketball coach at a private high school in Nashville. Some former players accused him of some misdeeds. Bad stuff, awful stuff. No one could believe it, but then more and more stories started coming in. He spent his savings and any money his wife made in her good job paying attorneys for 2 years, getting delays and filing motions and planning their case. Hundreds of thousands in total all the while he was not working. The day before the trial was finally about to start, he plead guilty and admitted it all.

I look at it as well from the standpoint he could already have spent one year in jail knocking out that sentence and it's a year saved on the backend as far as his youth. He may never play NFL football again, but he could still have a life in athletics somewhere if he gets five years or less and can maintain.

All that being said, lucky it's a light sentence, because he should be gone for 20-25, and tack on another 10-15 for being an idiot and all that crap about his best friend dying in a car wreck and what that meant to him.