Posted by Justin Rogers | MLive.com June 26, 2008 13:07PM
Categories: Statewide
Detroit Lions' first round draft pick, Gosder Cherilus, has been ordered to serve one year of probation, and was fined $52,000, for his role in a 2007 bar brawl. Sean Maney, the victim in the case, suffered a broken neck during the altercation.
June 26, Boston Globe: Maney, 29, a software engineer from Watertown, testified in a preliminary hearing that Cherilus grabbed him in a choke hold and dragged him across a dance floor before they crashed into a table. Maney said Cherilus and Tribble punched and kicked him while he lay on the ground.
"I thought I was going to die up there that night," he testified.
Cherilus, a 6-foot-7-inch, 314-pound offensive tackle who was selected 17th overall by the Detroit Lions, said in a Globe interview soon after the incident that he did not harm Maney and was acting solely as a peacemaker. Tribble, a 5-9, 190-pound cornerback who was drafted in the sixth round by the San Diego Chargers, also told the Globe he did nothing wrong.
"The lesson I learned," Cherilus said last year, "is not to try to break up any more fights."
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