You will no doubt be relieved to hear that justice and Huntley Johnson have been served.
The State Attorney’s Office has dropped charges against University of Florida football player Antonio Morrison, who was arrested early Sunday morning on charges of interfering with a police animal.
Darry Lloyd, spokesman for the State Attorney’s Office, said the charges were dropped, a move that was expected after State Attorney Bill Cervone on Sunday indicated concern with the sufficiency of evidence to constitute a crime.
Gainesville attorney Huntley Johnson, representing Morrison, agreed that evidence was lacking.
“I would say there was no evidence,” Johnson said. “The actions of the police were embarrassing.”
There was no word from the victim on the decision, but all in all, I am reminded of this famous passage from a Sherlock Holmes story:
- Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”
- Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
- Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
- Holmes: “That was the curious incident.”
Indeed, Holmes. Indeed.
By the way, does Boom lift the suspension, or does he keep it in place on grounds of general stupidity? Never mind…
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UPDATE: This is choice. Huntley’s worried about the bad precedent prosecution would have set for us.
“I would not want to be a University of Georgia fan at the Florida-Georgia game next year when those people start getting down on all fours and barking because if there are K-9 units in the facility we’re going to have a mass arrest,” Johnson said.
What if we bark from an upright position?