Seahawks TE Stevens charged with drunk driving

[The_Philster]

KIRKLAND, Wash. -- Seattle Seahawks tight end Jerramy Stevens was charged with drunken driving Friday, six weeks after police found two half-empty champagne bottles on the floor of his vehicle during a traffic stop.

Team officials confirmed that Stevens had accumulated six other driving offenses since last July, including several speeding violations.

Before the Seahawks made him their first-round draft pick in 2002, Stevens promised to clean up his off-the-field troubles after a string of legal problems when he played at the University of Washington. ...

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Seahawks Notebook: Stevens pleads

Judge scolds tight end; sentencing continued
KIRKLAND -- Jerramy Stevens had his day in court yesterday.

It won't, however, be the last for the Seahawks talented but troubled tight end.

Stevens pleaded guilty to reckless driving in Kirkland Municipal Court after prosecutors agreed to drop a drunk driving change stemming from an incident in Medina April 3 when Stevens rolled through a stop sign and police found two open bottles of champagne on the floor of his vehicle.

But judge Albert Raines declined to accept a sentence recommendation of two days in jail, a $1,000 fine and 100 hours of community service that had been agreed upon by Stevens' attorney, Jon Fox, and prosecutor Russell Joe...

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[The_Philster]

Seahawks' Stevens gets five days

Probation violation leads to jail time; another sentence to come
Judge Theresa Doyle said she was dismayed to see Jerramy Stevens in her courtroom again.

Doyle then backed her words with stern action yesterday, sentencing the Seahawks tight end to five days in jail and 40 hours of community service for violating his probation from a hit-and-run incident two years ago when Stevens was a student at the University of Washington.


"I really believed I wouldn't see you back here," Doyle told Stevens, who admitted violating his probation but said very little in the courtroom and declined to talk with reporters as he left the Seattle Municipal Court House...

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Stevens sentenced to jail, fined $1,000

KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Seattle Seahawks tight end Jerramy Stevens was sentenced Monday to two days in jail for reckless driving.

He had pleaded guilty to the lesser charge after a drunken driving arrest. Prosecutors had recommended the two-day sentence.

Earlier this month, Stevens was sentenced to five days in jail for violating probation from a hit-and-run conviction while he was a University of Washington student....

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[Gunzlingr]

Jerramy Stevens' jail time now up to 7 days

KIRKLAND — Before sentencing Seahawks tight end Jerramy Stevens yesterday to two days in jail for reckless driving, Judge Albert M. Raines recalled another former University of Washington football player whose life fell apart because of drinking while driving.

Raines told Stevens, who stood before the judge in Kirkland Municipal Court with hands in his pockets, how, one night in 1988, an intoxicated Reggie Rogers drove his car through a red light in Michigan and slammed into a car carrying three teenagers. Rogers, like Stevens a former NFL first-round draft pick, broke his neck and the three teens were killed. He was convicted of negligent homicide and spent a year in jail.

"You don't want to be another Reggie Rogers," Raines told Stevens. "You don't want to cause another tragedy on the freeway."

Yesterday, Stevens was also placed on two years of probation, fined $1,000 and court costs and ordered to perform 25 hours of community service. Those hours will be spent picking up garbage on area roadways, Raines said.

Stevens has now been sentenced to a total of seven days of jail time, the five others for a violation of his probation. The reckless-driving incident, which took place April 3 in Medina, constituted a violation of Stevens' probation imposed two years ago from a hit-and-run conviction while he was at Washington.

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[Cntrygal]

pathetic.

[The_Philster]

Maybe Stevens will pick up wisdom while picking up trash

Jerramy Stevens may collect some interesting items as he tidies up the region's roadsides.

There'll be the usual bottles and cans, those inexplicable unmated gym shoes, the inevitable bloated raccoons and the mountainous offal of shameless litterers.


And on a hot day with cars and trucks rumbling past, with his nostrils filled with diesel exhaust and his hands filthy from handling garbage and entrails, he may also discover some humility, maybe a bit of maturity, and perhaps, at last, a sense of responsibility....
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