ESPN said Friday that the 3rd degree felony aggravated assault charge that the grand jury indicted Rice on could’ve led to a prison sentence of up to 5 years.
The prosecutor lied about that.
Logically any sane person would assume that a vicious physical assault against anyone in any state can lead to serious jail time. How could the laws not provide for that?
In fact the MINIMUM sentence for what Rice was indicted for was 3 YEARS. The max is 5 years. This was all reported back in March.
See here:
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10684250/ray-rice-baltimore-ravens-indicted-aggravated-assault
And as far as needing the victim’s cooperation, they had the freaking thing on video! Total baloney from the prosecutor.