Utah Soccer Referee Punched by Teenage Player Dies

[Lindsay]

Utah soccer referee Ricardo Portillo, punched into a coma by a player, died Saturday, according to police. According to the investigation, last weekend, Portillo was officiating a La Liga...

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[Umpire in Chief]

I am going to be watching this one. I want to see if the assult charges get upped and if so to what.

[Thunderheads]

I am going to be watching this one. I want to see if the assult charges get upped and if so to what.

I sure hope it does ....hope this kid rots in a jail cell for the rest of his life

[cyclonehokiece]

 

I am going to be watching this one. I want to see if the assult charges get upped and if so to what.

I sure hope it does ....hope this kid rots in a jail cell for the rest of his life

 

I hope he gets murder charges now, none of this manslaughter crap, this was an intentional act that resulted in death.

[mstaylor]

Looks like they are going for a BS charge. Death by assault, never heard of it.

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[bam]

You guys are tough!  While I can see a severe sentence, rotting in jail for the rest of a 17 year old's life for a utterly stupid and completely unthinking act is harsh.  In all probability, this idiot had no concept of the consequences of his actions

 

No one is EVER going to mistake me for a bleeding heart liberal, but I recognize that teenager's brains are a completely different animal that that of an adults.  This incident is going to follow this kid for the rest of his life, as it should.  And he's probably a total dickhead.  But let's let the legal system (in which I don't have much faith, to start with) run it's course.  What should he get?  Off the top of my head, 20-30 years, parole in 10, probation for the remainder of the sentence. 

 

The fact is, he's going to be out eventually.  He's going to have zero chance of getting a good job  -although he might want to look into teaching at Columbia:

 

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/outrage_puQlvJIeZxsT7nFZds0HIJ

 

Now THAT'S an outrage. 

[mstaylor]

The charge they are seeking is five years max. That is ridiculous. Even a seventeen year old knows that hitting a ref is wrong.

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