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UT running back arrested for marijuana possesion.
Austin (un)American Statesman ^ | 05-16-06 | Laura Skelding

Posted on 05/16/2006 11:26:32 AM PDT by evets


The owner of a pecan farm near where Ramonce Taylor was arrested on a drug charge said Monday that the University of Texas running back and his friends crashed an outdoor college graduation party for his daughter.

At about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Stewart said, his son and several party guests complained to him that about seven uninvited guests were trying to sell drugs and he asked them to leave, he said.

A short time later, Bell County sheriff's deputies arrested Taylor, 20, at a nearby convenience store and accused him of possessing five pounds of marijuana.

Taylor called Bell County sheriff's deputies at about 1:30 a.m. reporting a fight involving as many as 100 people at the farm, according to the affidavit. He complained that the window of his vehicle was broken at the pecan farm. When deputies responded to Taylor's call, he told them that people at the party "provoked a fight and demanded that he leave," the affidavit says.

While deputies were talking to Taylor, they learned from fellow deputies — who were by that time at the pecan farm — that Taylor was being accused of threatening to return with a gun, the affidavit said. When Taylor consented to a search of his vehicle — a 2004 Chevy Tahoe — deputies found 5.3 pounds of marijuana in a bag stitched with "Big 12 Conference."

Taylor's lawyer, Robert "Buck" Harris of Killeen, said that if his client knew there were drugs in the car, he would not have called Bell County sheriff's deputies or allowed them to search his vehicle.

"He's not playing hide the ball. If he's carrying five pounds of marijuana, either he's the stupidest person alive or thinks he's bulletproof," Harris said after the brief arraignment hearing in Belton.

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To: 1L
They didn't. It was prior to spring practice.

Mack Brown said semester, not practice.

Either way, perhaps you are right, perhaps Brown did bump him from practice or the team (depending on view point) to "see how he'd behave without practicing."

That would lead me to believe that Taylor had some kind of personal issues that were going on long before this party/fight thing.
41 posted on 05/16/2006 2:35:05 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: FOG724
there is a reason they call it dope.

What's that reason? Does it apply any less to the legal drug alcohol?

42 posted on 05/16/2006 3:34:00 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: Know your rights
What's that reason? Does it apply any less to the legal drug alcohol?

You are picking a fight with the wrong person my dear. I'm pro legalization.

43 posted on 05/16/2006 5:34:28 PM PDT by FOG724 (A vote for Arnold is a vote for a Democrat)
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To: AggieMom x 3

I get the Aggie part.

Why Texas Aggies when there are Texas Longhorns?


44 posted on 05/16/2006 9:59:29 PM PDT by jra
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To: jra
Why Seminoles when there are Gators?
One thing I have always liked about UT is the high academic standards when compared to other Major NCAA football programs.
45 posted on 05/17/2006 8:50:58 AM PDT by benjamin032
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To: evets
Looks like they are playing the race card. I expect Johnny Cochrane and Jesse Jackson to fly in any day now.
46 posted on 05/17/2006 8:49:40 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: benjamin032

The difference is that there are the Florida Gators and the Florida STATE Seminoles.

Are A&M fans afraid of their own school's name?

Texas Aggies?!?


47 posted on 05/17/2006 11:28:53 PM PDT by jra
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To: jra; SuzyQue
Ah, I see. I've always called them either A&M or the Aggies, never the Texas Aggies. I don't think that I've ever even heard that before. I;ll refer to my Texas Cultural Adviser, but it's as wrong as Anne Richards in leather pants.
48 posted on 05/18/2006 8:00:53 AM PDT by benjamin032
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To: af_vet_rr

Heck, if they got Johnny Cochran there even *I* would have to vote for an aquittal!!


49 posted on 05/18/2006 6:13:03 PM PDT by somniferum
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To: somniferum

I meant to say Al Sharpton since Johnny is dead, but I was thinking about what a friend had said earlier - "If the backpack don't fit, you must acquit" - you can picture him saying that, can't you?


50 posted on 05/19/2006 9:23:22 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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