Tuesday, January 6, 2009

No Charges Against Harrison

I guess when your rich and famous you can do anything you want. But I got news for Marvin Harrison. He is likely to be cut from the Colts this offseason. Good luck trying to find another team with a quarterback like Peyton Manning throwing you the ball.


The Philadelphia district attorney's office does not plan to file criminal charges against Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison for his possible role in an April shooting in the city, District Attorney Lynne Abraham announced today.

Abraham said at a news conference that investigators had received too many conflicting accounts of the incident to proceed with a prosecution.

She did leave open the possibility of a prosecution in the future if more reliable information surfaces in pending civil litigation.

"Police have been unable to locate anybody else, to date, who may have been there that day," Abraham said at a news conference. "We have at least before us nine or so various versions of what is supposed to have happened.... We cannot as prosecutors vouch for the credibility of any of these witnesses because they have given so many contradictory, false, misleading, incomplete statements and so forth.

"There may yet be the possibility of a prosecution, although we don't yet know, depending on the outcome of depositions which will be held by civil counsel."

A gun owned by Harrison reportedly was involved in the shooting and a man who contends that he suffered a wound to his hand in the incident has sued Harrison.

Harrison's representatives have denied that he was involved in the shooting.

The Colts' season ended with their loss Saturday night in San Diego in the first round of the AFC playoffs.

By Mark Maske

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