Comments on: Quinton Jackson formally charged in July 15 collisions

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:52:54 +0000

How long could he potentially get in prison?

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By: Dana White says Rampage Jackson will fight despite charges :Five Ounces of Pain

Dana White says Rampage Jackson will fight despite charges :Five Ounces of Pain — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:49:15 +0000

[...] that Rampage has been formally charged with felony evasion, reckless driving, and driving down the wrong side of the street stemming from [...]

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By: BlazeHoliday

BlazeHoliday — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:37:20 +0000

Get over the miscarage. Griggs doctor him/herself already stated the accident had nothing to do with the miscarage and the medical records backed that up. It is sad that a fetus did in fact die. And I’m sure that there is a possiblity there was some stress from the hit and run, but as the doctor, the medical records and the prosecutor said… THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT IT DID CAUSE IT.

So why don’t we talk about the charges that are brought on Jackson instead of gossiping about this miscarage like a bunch of high school girls.

Thought this was a MMA site not a hello kitty fan page.

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By: Mike Rome

Mike Rome — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:13:12 +0000

Sigh. This is overwhelmingly good news compared to the other possibilities. You also have a statement from the DA that the woman’s own doctor says Jackson didn’t cause the miscarriage, a death knell to any strong civil suit.

Some of the responses are really quite unbelievable. It doesn’t matter what could have happened, this isn’t minority report. All that matters is what did happen. If you have ever run a red light, it could have resulted in death or injury to numerous people, but if it didn’t, you won’t and shouldn’t be punished for the potential harm you could have caused. There are endless everyday examples of this.

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By: DocWagner

DocWagner — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:51:52 +0000

This is BAD BAD news for QJ and the UFC. This will be a long drawn out process and it would be a crime to put the man BACK in the cage prior to this being cleared up.
I think there will be more than one civil suit filed and will need to be settled out of court.

I would not expect Jackson fighting anytime soon.

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By: Jay K.

Jay K. — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:11:42 +0000

Well said, Grappo!

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By: AdamsFamily

AdamsFamily — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:26:35 +0000

Grappo – well put in the most balanced opinon I have read on this whle affair

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By: Grappo

Grappo — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:49:19 +0000

Reasonable that the victims would blame the miscarriage on Jackson’s actions, even if they weren’t sure. That’s how people sometimes react to tragic situations. The doctors say the miscarriage wasn’t related to the accident, so I’ll take their word for it, though nothing anyone said would convince me otherwise had it been my wife that miscarried.

Also reasonable are the charges laid against Jackson. Hit-and-run, reckless driving, felony evasion… I don’t know what the potential penalty would be were he to be found guilty on any or all charges, but he definitely appears to be guilty by all accounts reported.

I don’t think he’s “psycho” or anything like that. I do believe that his training and diet, along with the stress of losing the title (and probably many other personal things that are unknown to us) played into his strange behavior. And those should be mitigating factors come trial time. He doesn’t have a history of this kind of behavior.

I don’t believe I am particularly biased when it come to this Jackson fiasco. I think I am more biased when I read a story like this in the paper and automatically wish that the guy gets locked up for just being a danger to society. It’s because it happened to someone I am familiar with that I step back and look at the situation from all angles and look past a knee-jerk reaction.

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By: king mah mah

king mah mah — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:44:15 +0000

Yeah it’s sad that those people would try to cash in on the miscarriage. But that’s the way America works. People always try to get something for nothing. However, Jackson’s actions will affect his career in short term and long term. It ruins his rep now, and he will have a long fight before his credibility is regained.

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By: jdavis

jdavis — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:24:29 +0000

Jesse, you do know that he was taken in for a 72 hour mental evaluation and they cleared him right? It’s already been stated that it was his wacked out fasting and diet that caused him to act like that, while that is really bad it doesn’t make him out to be the psychopath you seem to be trying to paint him as. He will get punished according to what the law is for what he actually did not what could of happened or what he potentially could of done, that’s how it works. It’s not a biased reaction that a lot of people are having it’s that they have actually been keeping up with the story instead of jumping to conclusions about this stuff.

As far as a possible civil suit over the miscarriage, if the woman’s doctor is even telling the police the events are unrelated then she’s not going to get very far with this. It’s hard to prove this was a cause in court if the medical records and your own physician don’t agree that it was. That doesn’t mean that Jackson see any civil suits though, he did bust up several people’s cars with his actions and could very well face several lawsuits.

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