Originally Posted by
BismarckDuke
Oh, that was bad...
But really, this all comes down to someone not really having smarts.
1. He lost his license. Where, how, whatever but he didn't have one. Doesn't sound like it is one of those things were he didn't have it on him, it is that he doesn't have one.
2. He rented a car and didn't have a license. Bad mistake to borrow someone's car if you don't have a license to drive.
3. He had some smack with him, driving a rented car without a license.
Okay, we are getting deep.
4. They had a gun in the car.
Not sure, but this is mistake after mistake, it just seems like the IQ isn't there.
5. He did something stupid to get pulled over. With no license, smack in the car and a gun too.
Something tells me these 5 mistakes are not the only mistakes made here. Yea, I can see where the millions he is going to make playing in the NBA will save him. You just can't out grow stupidity.
Just a couple of clarifications.
He was charged with NOL. Meaning he doesn't have a license. Not the same thing as having been issued a license and then losing it or forgetting to take it with you. (Aside: How do you rent a car without a license?)
He didn't do anything stupid to get pulled over. He got pulled over at a checkpoint. Everybody got pulled over.
The way I see it, somebody rented the car. If that somebody was not PJ or one of his relatives, this could turn into an NCAA investigation as well. I'm not familiar with the gun laws in NC; as I understand it, the laws in Durham are actually different from the laws in Chapel Hill. So the gun charges are completely up in the air at this time. They will have to be able to prove that the gun came from the car that PJ was driving, in the first place. Conceivably, it could've been tossed on the ground by somebody in a different car and not found until PJ's rental car got there. Who knows?
Worst-case scenario for UNC would be a felony charge, which would probably mean PJ's dismissal from the team. Or, an NCAA violation if the car was rented for him by a booster or, worse, a former player or something. That could also result in dismissal.
Best-case scenario is that the 1.5 oz of pot are determined to be 0.5 oz per passenger (thus a misdemeanor), the NOL charge results in community service, the gun is not traced to PJ, and the car was rented in PJ's name with PJ's money. If all that happens, PJ might get a slap on the wrist and not much else.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust