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Originally Posted by WestMichBlue
Oooh - a year in jail and four grand fine! Come on, Corpus Christi, throw the book as this SOB and send a message.
WMB
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Sadly, that is throwing the book at him!!! That would be the maximum penalty allowed by law. That is where civil litigation could be more of a punishment. Just think of the grocery list of things that could come up in a civil suit: Medical bills plus pain and suffering from the no doubt serious injury incurred in the fray; the psychological scarring that this young man has suffered causing him to be afraid to set foot back on the field as an official, an avocation that he was hoping to persue the rest of his life, possibly making it to the pros (this would work a lot better with baseball or hockey than with football, but you get the idea), and the loss in all possible future earnings because of this fear to get back on the field and officiate. I am sure that a lawyer could come up with many more tangibles that could be injected in a lawsuit, one that would really make it costly on the offender.