{"id":28541,"date":"2014-11-05T07:04:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T12:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28541"},"modified":"2014-11-05T07:04:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T12:04:03","slug":"adrian-petersons-legal-situation-now-clear-nfl-disciplinary-situation-less-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/05\/adrian-petersons-legal-situation-now-clear-nfl-disciplinary-situation-less-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Peterson&#8217;s legal situation now clear &#8230; NFL disciplinary situation less so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Viking_Head.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Viking_Head\" width=\"80\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672\" \/>Yesterday, Adrian Peterson agreed to a plea deal that would reduce the charges he faced from a felony to a misdemeanor (thereby also reducing the maximum punishment from jail time to a fine, probation, and community service). He pleaded no contest to the lesser charges and if he completes the probation without incident, he won&#8217;t have a criminal record. He will also be subject to random drug testing but no travel restrictions. Despite this, his situation with the NFL is still up in the air &mdash; he&#8217;s been on the commissioner&#8217;s exempt list since week two, getting paid but not being allowed to practice with the team &mdash; and the only way he&#8217;ll be allowed back on the field is after Roger Goodell decides on what league discipline is now called for.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Adrian Peterson&#39;s updated court checklist:&#10;\u2714 Actual court&#10;_  Goodell&#39;s court&#10;_  Court of public opinion<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Thompson (@eric_j_thompson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eric_j_thompson\/status\/529732097549021185\">November 4, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The NFL issued the following statement regarding the Adrian Peterson case. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/U8FCxHe3rN\">pic.twitter.com\/U8FCxHe3rN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNFL\/status\/529737821884784641\">November 4, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Adrian Peterson agreed to a plea deal that would reduce the charges he faced from a felony to a misdemeanor (thereby also reducing the maximum punishment from jail time to a fine, probation, and community service). He pleaded no contest to the lesser charges and if he completes the probation without incident, he won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,9],"tags":[227,343,126,179,386],"class_list":["post-28541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-law","tag-adrianpeterson","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl","tag-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7ql","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28542,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28541\/revisions\/28542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}