Iowa's All Time Leading Receiver D. Johnson-Koulianos busted for possession
Stupid. I don't know any other way to put it. This season keeps getting worse and worse
[ED NOTE: Full Details from the Iowa City paper: "According to Iowa City criminal complaints, police found marijuana, cocaine and prescription drugs inside Derrell Johnson-Koulianos’ residence during a search Tuesday afternoon. Police said Johnson-Koulianos admitted to using the drugs and a urine test indicated a presence of drugs in his urine. Johnson-Koulianos also allegedly had electronic media showing him in possession of drugs." Translation: the DJK era is over in Iowa City, and his career ended in a flameball of fail in the same way that the 2010 Hawkeye season did.]
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I just saw a fanbase go from passively optimistic (if not a bit depressed) to
Dejected, baffled, shocked, and somewhat scared in about an hour. What a night…
So what if I tailgate to the NPR jazz station?
I'm not sure what's more stupid
getting involved in that shit in the first place, or talking to the police when they’re executing a warrant / arresting you.
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*Shrug*
The most important lesson that I’ve learned out of criminal defense in law school so far is that talking with the police without your lawyer present is never a good idea. Doesn’t matter if you’re guilty or innocent. If you’re guilty anyway, it’s more likely than not that you’ll plead out in the end even if you don’t talk initially. If you’re innocent, talking only leads to bad things happening.
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You try talking to the cops after they kick in your door when you're high.
I would imagine its not so easy. He apparently hadn’t lawyer’d up yet. He has however been working out and deleted his facebook page.
/reddit’d
by HawkeyeRecon on Dec 8, 2010 10:25 AM CST up reply actions
Not easy maybe
but I’m guessing nobody ever told him that he shouldn’t under any circumstances without having his lawyer there first. He’s young, so I’d be surprised if that lesson was impressed on him. But it should be something everybody knows.
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We got to start teaching kids this in elementary school
Basic lessons should be: eat healthy, clean up after yourself, lawyer up and don’t tell the cops shit!, tie your shoes
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
by HoyaGoon on Dec 8, 2010 2:22 PM CST up reply actions 5 recs
Watch this
It’s fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
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That was unnecessarily douche-y. I hope the kid gets his life together, because there’s a very good path and a very bad path from here on out.
If anything
given that he was the only one trying, maybe if more of our guys were on the Colombian Booger Sugar we would have won.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
This is the cherry on top
of the poo sundae that was 2010 Iowa football. Damn. I’m going to need a bowl win and a quiet off-season to get over this season.
I think you just quoted me
from the basketball threa. I DEMAND ATTRIBUTION!!!! THIS IS THE INTERNETZ, IT’S SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Weird, I also posted a very similar message on Facebook
CRAZY
I didn't order assholes with my whiskey
by White Lightning on Dec 8, 2010 11:37 AM CST up reply actions
If one lemming jumps off a cliff
Others tend to follow… soooooo….
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In my defense
it’s a pretty natural metaphor for this season, so duplicates are likely.
And if that’s not a good enough explanation then I’LL SEE YOU IN INTERNET COURT!!
by HeartOfHawkness on Dec 8, 2010 3:11 PM CST up reply actions
Oh heavens no.
I’m betting this wouldn’t have happened had Iowa managed to pull out something better than a 7-5 regular season.
Cue 2005/2006/2007 Iowa struggles? I sure hope not.
Wisconsin, Big Ten Champions for the first time since 1999...
"What's your formula for the corner?" -Doctor Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory
by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Dec 8, 2010 2:02 AM CST reply actions
Why is it that
when our seasons go bad, they go so spectacularly bad? We’re never a team that does well on the field but has some problems off it or spotless off-field behavior couple with disappointing on-field results; instead, we get complete garbage fire disaster seasons only.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Look at it this way
At least you get it all out of your system at once, and then move on and have 4 or 5 good years after the specatacularly craptastic one.
Unlike Indiana and Minnesota, where it’s reversed. One good year, then 5 or 6 (or in Indiana’s case 37) craptastic years.
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"A parent's only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed."
I hate seeing talented kids making stupid decisions. A little weed I can see, not the best thing for an athlete, but if that’s the worst thing they do, I can live with it. But coke and prescriptions drugs? That’s more of a problem.
I hope DJK gets his stuff together, because he has a great opportunity to play in the NFL.
After actually reading the articles...
…looks like DJK was not only using, but dealing significant quantities. Fuck him then
You're misreading the article
which is easy to do, it’s a bit confusing. Short of it is, DJK is basically only accused of using/being aware of his roommate’s activity. His roommate, on the other hand, is the one accused of being the seller. The confusing part is that the roommate’s last name is Johnson which tends muddy the issue when only last names are being used.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
He wasn't dealing. His roomate (whose last name is also Johnson) was dealing.
by HawkeyeRecon on Dec 8, 2010 10:27 AM CST up reply actions
Allegedly...allegedly
Criminey, a blog full of lawyers and this had to be pointed out by the non-barrister?
Shame, lady and gentlemen, shame.
Oh, and that will be the standard $300 Internet dollars/hour, my standard fee. Please pay my secretary on the way out…cash only, no checks.
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$300?
Compared to the billing rates of your average first-year associate at a major law firm, that’s a bargain.
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Yeah, but it's
Internet dollars. A nebulous currency, much like the US dollar these days.
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"A parent's only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed."
Talking makes sense
When you think of the NFL interviews he’s going to go through. Probably better to admit to mistakes and move past them then drag the court drama into his draft stock.
Just finished my Criminal Procedure: Adjudication final at Iowa Law 2 hours ago haha.
I've got Constitutional Criminal Procedure tomorrow
Problem is, there’s a difference between “talking” and admitted. It’s one thing for him to plead guilty to whatever he’s guilty of. That is probably the smart thing to do in this situation if he wants to actually go to the NFL (though even then it might not help). But talking to police while they’re executing a search warrant? That can’t help.
For example, let’s pretend we’re recreating the bust as it happened. And, for the purposes of this experiment, let’s say that DJK was only involved in the marijuana stuff and not the harder drugs. But, for whatever reason, let’s say that somehow some of that cocaine / Rx stuff ended up in DJK’s room even if it wasn’t his. If he says nothing during the search and talks to the police only with his lawyer present, he probably only ends up pleading to what he’s actually guilty of – possession of marijuana. Let’s say on the other hand that while executing the warrant the cops find this other stuff in his room and demand of him “Are the drugs yours?!” in that oh-so vague way. Thinking they’re referring to the marijuana he actually does have he responds yes. But, oops, now he admitted to owning the coke and the Rx too. Nice try going back on that later…
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Remember people
the cops are NOT your friends! Flat tire on the side of the road, cop stops and asks what’s wrong? He’s there to help, feel free to talk to him. Same cop is in your house with a warrant? He ain’t there to make nice. Shut up and lawyer up.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Pretty much
It may sound funny to you. But it isn’t really wrong. I noticed quite a few commentators on BHGP agree with me on this one. Guess it’s just the lawerly opinion.
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I was being serious
Hell, I’m just another lawyer who knows THE COPS ARE NOT MY FRIENDS. And remembering that fact has kept me out of a number of dicey situations.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Oh didn't know you were lawerly too
It all makes so much sense now. :)
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