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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 6/3/2010 9:38:17 AM   
Jeff Jesser


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ORIGINAL: Lynn G.

I got an answer from Maturi:

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Lynn,

Trevor's legal issues should be resolved in the next 4-6 weeks. We hope that he will be a Gopher. He knows that we would like him to play for us.

Joel Maturi




Typical response to be honest.  You'll never get a real, candid, answer out of a guy in that type of position.
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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 6/3/2010 9:56:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yep - I figured he straddled the line pretty well. I almost replied and reminded him that he doesn't have to hope - he has the magic wand in his hand to make it happen, but I figured that would get me close to pest status and get me on the blocked e-mail list. :o)

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 6/3/2010 9:57:15 AM   
Jim Frenette


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The felony assault trial for Gophers junior forward Trevor Mbakwe was rescheduled for July 26 during a Wednesday hearing in Miami. Mbakwe, who is considering a transfer to another school, was held out of during the 2009-10 men's basketball season due to his unresolved legal issues. Gophers athletic director Joel Maturi recently said that he's willing to reconsider Mbakwe's status -- he's suspended indefinitely -- if the trial gets pushed past the start of next season, assuming he's still with the team.


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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 6/3/2010 10:00:59 AM   
Lynn G.


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Status: offline 		Maybe he's gotten quite a few pushes to let Mbakwe play. The current policy stinks.

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 6/8/2010 11:59:00 AM   
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Of course, why would Izzo, John Calipari, Tubby Smith (would turn pro in a jiffy, I'm informed if presented the opportunity and he meets David Stern's age requirement) or any college/NBA person owning a reputable job and solid leverage get suckered into hooking up with a collection of Cavs minus its marquee?
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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 6/30/2010 10:01:10 AM   
Jim Frenette


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Trevor Mbakwe scored 31 points and Royce White 22 in their Howard Pulley pro-am basketball summer league debuts at the Salvation Army gym in St. Paul.


If only they were on the Gophers. Oh wait they were suppose to be

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 7/13/2010 1:13:55 AM   
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Leaving Gophers for Iowa State to play for The Mayor.

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 7/13/2010 8:11:42 AM   
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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 7/13/2010 9:58:23 AM   
Jim Frenette


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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 7/13/2010 10:43:03 AM   
TJSweens


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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 7/15/2010 12:58:50 PM   
Jim Frenette


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• Gophers forward Trevor Mbakwe will go to trial Aug. 23 for felony assault in Miami, after his latest trial date of July 26 was rescheduled Monday. Mbakwe is considering a transfer to Georgia Tech or Memphis.


Or he has a bad lawyer to let it drag out

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 7/15/2010 1:39:54 PM   
TJSweens


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Status: offline 		This time the judge had a conflict with his schedule. Not much you can do about that. According to the Pioneer Press, Maturi has said that if the trial keeps getting postponed he may allow Trevor to play. About a year late with that call.

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 7/15/2010 2:39:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		That's exactly what I told Maturi in the e-mail I sent him (copied it here). That Mbakwe was not being well served by the justice system with delay after delay after delay. I said he needs to let him play while this gets sorted out. I hope that's the track he takes.

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 7/15/2010 3:18:30 PM   
Jim Frenette


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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

This time the judge had a conflict with his schedule. Not much you can do about that. According to the Pioneer Press, Maturi has said that if the trial keeps getting postponed he may allow Trevor to play. About a year late with that call.


This July date has been there for a couple of months and he waited until 2 weeks before to find the conflict? This guy has been gettin pushed back for a year now so why couldn't he change the other conflict?

I don't mean to yell at the messanger, it just upsets me

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 7/16/2010 12:55:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		Maturi: Mbakwe COULD play this year.

What a dude. COULD???!!?!?

SHOULD have played last year

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 8/12/2010 11:45:05 AM   
TJSweens


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Status: offline 		Looks like Mbakwe's case is settled. He will enter a pre-trial intervention program and do community service. In return he doesn't plead guilty to anything and has no criminal record. http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/blogs/100536709.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUo8cyaiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr

Can he play now Joel?

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 8/12/2010 11:48:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		My only disappointment is that the settlement means he has to accept a punishment - while all along it certainly appeared that he wasn't even in the same state as the victim. I guess Mbakwe and his family decided that this was preferable to seeing it dragged out any more.

It will be nice to see him play this year.

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 8/12/2010 11:51:45 AM   
TJSweens


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Status: offline 		This eliminates any risk no matter how small that he would be found guilty. The prosecution knew that they didn't have a case and stalled it out to get him to agree to something. This deal is only one step removed from the DA coming up empty handed.

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 8/12/2010 12:12:38 PM   
Lynn G.


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Status: offline 		The DA needed to take a big gulp and admit they didn't have a case and drop the charges. But oh well, nothing any of us could have done about it.

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 8/13/2010 8:01:11 AM   
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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 8/13/2010 8:22:56 AM   
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Samms said Thursday that the prosecution was also responsible for many of the continuances. He said that before the last delay in July, the state attorney's office approached his client with the intervention program option. But the victim wouldn't approve it, so the case was headed to an Aug. 23 trial.
"When they met with the victim this time and explained to her they weren't going to win the case, they made the offer again," Samms said.
The program isn't usually offered to violent felony cases such as assault, Samms said, meaning that the prosecution's case was "falling apart." Samms said Mbakwe looks forward to doing his community service and counseling in Minnesota, and getting it all behind him.


http://www.twincities.com/gophers/ci_15756892?nclick_check=1

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 8/13/2010 9:25:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		The prosecutors are trying to make it sound like Mbakwe's lawyer kept pushing for the continuances and they finally had to offer this deal because the victim wanted to get it over with. According to Mbakwe's attorney

But Gregory Samms, Mbakwe's lawyer, said the prosecutor offered the pretrial program after learning that an officer who interviewed the accuser in the case told her to "bolster her case" by falsely claiming that she knew Mbakwe prior to the alleged assault. - startribune.com

and

Samms also said the prosecutor and accuser agreed to that option because of the holes in their case against Mbakwe.
For instance, legal documents say that the victim described her assailant as a 190-pound, 6-6 black man. But Samms said the accuser told him that she never gave police that information.


He also said the pretrial program Mbakwe will enter is usually employed by people facing misdemeanors.
"The truth of the matter is their case kept getting weaker," he said.


http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/100594439.html?page=2&c=y

I'm surprised they even accepted the offer. The DA and the police department were set to get their asses handed to them.


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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 8/13/2010 10:04:56 AM   
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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 8/13/2010 10:16:39 AM   
Lynn G.


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Status: offline 		It would be sweet to see that DA investigated for some kind of bad practice. No idea what the charge would be, but it sure seems like he broke some laws.

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RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) - 8/19/2010 9:54:14 AM   
Jim Frenette


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http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/101036944.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUjc8LDyiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr

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