The Washington Wizards’ guard Gilbert Arenas avoided jail time for taking guns to the Verizon Center and threatening teammate Javaris Crittenton following a dispute over a card-game debt that did not involve guaranteed loans. According to the Washington Post, Arenas and his defense attorneys have claimed that it was merely “a prank gone wrong,” while the prosecution calls Gilbert Arenas’ “self-serving, ever-evolving” story a thin attempt to cover a pattern of bullying and “thuggish” intimidation. The D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morinoriginally sentenced “Agent Zero” to 18 months in jail; however, that part of the sentence was suspended. In Morin’s mind, 30 days in a halfway house, 400 hours of community service, two years probation, and $ 5,000 donation to a crime victim’s fund are all that Gilbert Arenas owes to the community.
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This is why only a $ 5,000 donation is way too low. Payday loans would do the crime victims just as well. But what about the lack of jail time since he will remain with the NBA as well as with the Washington Wizards? Even with guns being unloaded as Gilbert Arenas says his guns were, your average person who brings a gun to work is going to serve jail time and be fired.The practical joke defense wouldn’t hold water. Whether Arenas is a joker who doesn’t know when to knock it off or a common gang-banger with too much money, not serving in jail is an insult to justice.
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Morin says, according to the post, that he “weighed several factors in issuing his sentence.” First of all, the firearms involved were registered in Virginia. The probation bell might have been rung since this transpired in D.C..Second, there was no way to prove the guns were loaded and Arenas has no documented history of violence. Cue Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to Be an American!”
Gilbert Arenas has been up on gun charges before.
Back in 2003, as he was leaving the Golden State Warriors as a free agent, Gilbert Arenas was arrested outside San Francisco when police saw a gun on the floor of his car during a traffic stop.It was registered in Arizona, but not California. “Agent Zero”served two years probation after pleading no contest to illegal gun possession.
