Xavier Hicks: having a tough time
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Poor Xavier Hicks. Guy can’t catch a break. First he tries to blind his teammate by putting rubbing alcohol in his contact case and winds up in jail for 45 days, then he gets arrested on the way home from jail. Pathetic. If this guy weren’t a contributer for WSU’s football team, he would be Schmidtke’d so fast he wouldn’t know what hit him.
According to the Seattle Times report, Hicks was released from jail and as he drove away jail personnel contacted the Pullman police, who promptly pulled him over and cited him for misdemeanor DWLS (driving while license suspended). This is just about the most bonine crime out there, and is just a basic misdemeanor, but it could have consequences reaching back to his previous cases as well. Generally, when a person pleads guilty to a crime, the judge will sentence them to the maximum term in jail and the maximum fine possible, but then suspend a great deal of the jailtime and monetary penalty subject to several conditions. So, for a gross misdemeanor like Assault in the fourth degree, the maximum jail sentence is 1 year, and the maximum fine is $5,000.00. So when Hicks was sentenced on his assualt 4 charge, he likely got 365 days in jail with 320 suspended (the remainder being the 45 days he actually served), along with $5,000.oo fine with most of that suspended as well. One of the conditions was almost certainly law abiding behavior and/or ‘no similiar incidences.’ These conditions remain intact for the remainder of the time that the individual is on probation, which is usually anywhere from 1-2 years for misdemeanors.
Anyways, for his DWLS charge Hicks may not get any jailtime or much in the way of fines, but the case could trigger a violation of the terms of his previous sentence (since DWLS is not law abiding), and cause the judged to impose some of the suspended jailtime (probably not a lot though, since it’s a minor incident).
What is really telling about the Hicks incident is how the jail staff may have felt about him. They certainly could have walked up to him in the parking lot and said something to the effect of, “Xavier… you don’t have a driver’s license. Maybe you should take the bus.” They weren’t under any obligation to do so, but they could have. Instead they just watched as he strolled out, fired up the ol’ automobile, and then called the police. I know you should never fault a whistleblower or someone for reporting a crime, but man that was harsh. Maybe WSU’s head coach will suspend Hicks for another quarter or something.