The wife of Miami Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall has been charged with stabbing him in the abdomen with a kitchen knife in Florida. The case could become even more complicated not just for Michi Nogami-Marshall, 27, but for Brandon Marshall.
Reports indicate that Brandon Marshall, 27, may have given police a false statement (a crime) in saying that he was cut by a broken vase. Moreover, police indicate that when his wife admitted stabbing him, she said it was in self-defense (laying the grounds for a possible abuse charge).
These domestic dispute cases are notoriously messy. Here Marshall is in the position of many women who initially deny abuse to police. They are rarely charged with making false statements. However, in this case, his wife has raised self defense. If these reports are correct, both may have made initially false statements that can be used by prosecutors to pressure one party against the other.
In this case, Marshall’s wife is only 5-foot-9 and 155 pounds while he is 6-foot-4 and weighs 230 pounds. A factor that might be cited by Marshall’s wife if she continues with her reported self-defense claim.
Such claims can raise issues under morality clauses in NFL contracts — endangering the player’s career (particularly if the injury is sufficiently serious to make team uncertain anyway about his performance in the next season). The crossed claims and false statements in this case has started out badly for Marshall, who is in obvious need of not just intervening medical but legal care.
Source: CNN
Jonathan Turley
@Shady_Grady,
“Jeez. Talk about stereotypes.”
You’ll find on this blog that the quickest people in one article to cry about stereotypes are the first to use them in others. Their hypocrisy is excused because they think only certain people are deserving of sympathy.
I may be heartless when it comes to discussing law, but I don’t have any neurons in my aorta (and if they think they do, I would argue they have no place discussing law).
All of that being said, Brandon Marshall as an individual has a colored past (oh no! did I use colored?!!!) when it comes to the law.
Assault on LEO, domestic abuse, battery, etc. Combined with his general attitude on the teams he has played for (entitled prima donna according to teammates), can’t say I am surprised he finds himself in this situation.
Why don’t people at least wait to find out what happened before they immediately assume that the woman was correct in claiming self-defense?
People fight. Women are not saints. Crystal Mangum anyone?
Unless you happen to personally know the people involved or were present when the assault or fight happened how can one make ANY assumptions about either party?
Because the man is a football player automatically means he’s a man-child or has been coddled his entire life? And it’s ok to make jokes about him? I’ll remember that the next some woman gets stabbed or beaten.
And the size of the parties doesn’t have anything to do with who may or may not have been the aggressor.
Jeez. Talk about stereotypes.
I suppose he was not up to his game….He did some bad receiving that gave him lower belly pain….
rafflaw … someone’s out to get you but, happily, not doing a very good job of it. 🙂
You right Pete! :))
What we know:
Marshall was stabbed by his wife.
Where rafflaw immediately goes:
Marshall was abusing his wife and deserves every penalty, rafflaw will not stand for this type of treatment.
Rafflaw: “Wow! What is it with pro athletes and these kind of marital or domestic disputes? ”
Not Rafflaw: “What is it about women lying about their abuse of their partners and a society that condones and even encourages that behavior?”
#5: “Domestic violence research overwhelmingly shows that women are just as likely as men to initiate and engage in domestic violence, and that only a small percentage of women’s domestic violence is committed in self‑defense. Studies show that women often compensate for their smaller size by their significantly greater use of weapons and the element of surprise.”
Source: Richard J. Gelles, Ph.D., “The Missing Persons of Domestic Violence: Male Victims,” The Women’s Quarterly, Fall, 1999. See Gelles.
Source: References Examining Assaults by Women on Their Spouses or Male Partners: An Annotated Bibliography by Martin S. Fiebert, Department of Psychology, California State University, Long Beach. See http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm.
Source: Patricia Pearson, When She Was Bad: Violent Women & the Myth of Innocence, Penguin Books, 1998, pp. 119‑123.
Source: David Fontes, “Violent Touch: Breaking Through the Stereotype,” David L. Fontes, Psy.D., CEAP See http://www.safe4all.org/essays/vtbreak.pdf.
Source: Cathy Young, Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality, The Free Press, 1999, pp. 91‑96.
erykah
if she were white it would have been on fox not cnn
Pro athletes are sheltered from an early age if they show exceptional skill. They never suffer the consequences of their behavior, are usually allowed to think of themselves as immune to the rules and requirements normal people live by.
This makes them ‘men-children’ with the emotional maturity of a 4 year old and a sense of entitlement that often gets them into trouble.
Not all of them, I know a few that are the best humans you would ever want to meet but too many of them are. This is our fault as a society because we value sports above all else. Nobody would protect the best mathematician in the school from rape charges or drug charges. But the star quarterback, point guard or pitcher? Hell yes, can’t have them going to jail.
pete,
Florida and Texas and Oklahoma and Arizona have a lot in common when it comes to these kind of stories.
why do 96.5% of the stories on this blog happen in florida
abovenumbernotintendedtobefactual
(not even a week and it’s already an old joke)
Now see. Had be married a white girl, none of this would have happened.
PatricParamedic
“that this comment is about as stupid as a human utterance can be”.
Which comment do you mean? It would be a good idea to quote it.
“In this case, Marshall’s wife is only 5-foot-9 and 155 pounds while he is 6-foot-4 and weighs 230 pounds. That would certainly help in any self-defense claim.”
As one who has treated over a thousand assault victims, I can fairly report that this comment is about as stupid as a human utterance can be.
But one notch above, say, a guy barking at a dog.
Blouise,
don’t bring my Wheaties into this now!! 🙂
“What is it with pro athletes and these kind of marital or domestic disputes?” (rafflaw)
Your answer is within the questions. It has been my experience that pro athletes are not at all as Wheaties presents them.
Wow! What is it with pro athletes and these kind of marital or domestic disputes? I agree that something just doesn’t smell right about what the parties are claiming. If he has been abusing his wife, then he deserves any legal penalty he gets. I have no respect or patience for that kind of activity.