Hosive

former nba ref who bet on games that he worked(that’s illegal)had an interesting defense for his crimes: don’t lock me up for gambling….because i have gambling problem!

really? you couldn’t stop gambling because you couldn’t stop gambling??

here are few blurbs from espn.com:

“Disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy was a compulsive gambler whose road to professional and personal ruin began on the golf course, where he bet up to $500 a hole, according to an evaluation filed on the eve of his sentencing. “In short, he could not stop himself from gambling,” wrote Stephen Block, a longtime New York-based gambling treatment counselor.

Donaghy, 41, faces up to 33 months in prison at his sentencing Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn after pleading guilty last year to taking thousands of dollars in payoffs from a professional gambler for inside betting tips. The evaluation was filed by his defense attorney, John Lauro, in a bid for leniency.

“In my professional opinion, Mr. Donaghy would never have committed these offenses if he was not a pathological gambler,” Block concluded.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can i defend myself with don’t lock me up! i couldn’t stop killing because i’m a pathological killer? i can’t stop killing because i can’t stop killing? maybe that’s a variation on the insanity plea. i’ve got a disease so i can’t help myself. that doesn’t make me want to let you go….it makes me want to lock you up! besides, you are admitting you did the crime!

i am sure there are fancy schmancy tricky lawyers out there who can out argue my reasoning and set people like this free. this breed of double talkers maybe shocked to find out people hate lawyers.

luckily, the judge in this case reads duh journal and sentenced this joker to a place where others also cannot control themselves.