Yea, obviously no one believed the Victim when:
- Perry, and his friends, told authorities that Perry was 100% innocent, Perry never touched the women, so couldn't have assaulted her AND Perry was actually "the victim" via "mistaken identity" (i.e., the woman was falsely accusing him).
- The victim, her friends and multiple witnesses standing around them told Police that Perry and his friends attempted to cut in line in front of the Victim, and her party, when they arrived on the scene. which generated an immediate verbal altercation. The Victim went to the Doorman/Bouncer and requested that he do something. Whereupon, the Doorman walked back and instructed Perry, and his party, to remove themselves and go to the back of the line. Perry's group complied, but then Perry returned to the group of women and continued to harass them and escalate matters to the point where Perry physically attacked one of the women. After the physical attack, the Victim was very upset and returned to the Doorman at the front of the line requesting that he call Police to the scene. After returning to her friends, still crying and emotionally upset, Perry again returned and began harassing and mocking her emotional outburst, which is the moment ELPD Officers arrived on the scene and saw Perry involved in an altercation with the Victim, and her party, at the point where the women were standing in line. Once Perry realized Police were on the scene, he immediately vacated the area where the women were standing and went to the spot in line where his friends were standing further back in the line. The Victim reported the facts above to Police.
- Perry, and his friends, told Police that no Assault upon anyone in the Victim's group ever occurred, that Perry never touched her and that Perry was being falsely identified by the Victim and her group.
- The Doorman confirmed all aspects of the Victim's story including the Victim approaching him twice that night - first when Perry's party arrived and "cut the line" in front of the women and a second time after another altercation caused by Perry continuing to harass the women after his friends had gone to the back of the line. The second time the women approached him, she was very upset and requested he call Police, which he did. The Doorman told Police that he could not see exactly what was going on during the initial or subsequent altercation that caused the women to come to him because of the number of people in line and the distance he was from that point in the line - he could see some kind of disturbance each time the Victim approached him, but couldn't give details as to what happened.
- Every witness standing at or near where the women were standing, other then Perry and his friends, confirmed the Victim's accounting of events.
- After questioning everyone at the scene, Police attempted to detain Perry because he was obviously drunk (and was cited for public intoxication which became Underage Drinking upon further investigation), was possessing an ID which appeared to be forged (and subsequently was proven to be forged). Perry then engaged in a Criminal Physical Altercation with the Police in an attempt to flea the scene and escape. He briefly freed himself, but was immediately tackled to the ground by Police - one of the Officers sprained their hand in the altercation.
- Perry maintained his innocence and told the University of Michigan that he was "the victim of mistaken identity" in regards to the Assault charges on the Victim such that UMich originally suspended Perry, but then reinstated him to the football team such that he played in all 3 of UMich's final 3 regular season games (IA, Ind, OSU).
- In late-Dec 2016 the Ingham County Prosecutor then brought multiple Misdemeanor Assault Charges for Assaulting the woman in question (who the Prosecutor identified as "The Victim" and the Court allowed to read a "Victim Impact Statement" into the Court Record after the Assailant's Guilty Plea to Assaulting her and prior to Sentencing). Perry was also charged with Felony Obstruction, Assaulting Officers While Resisting Arrest and Attempting to Flea the Scene of a Crime as well as Charges relative to his being drunk, underage and in possession of a forged State ID.
- After multiple charges were brought against Perry in late-Dec 2016 by the Ingham County Prosecutor including charges related to an Assault upon a Female College Student in her "Daily University Environment" - charges that carried a potential Sentence of up to 2 years imprisonment - the University of Michigan again suspended Perry from the team such that he missed UMich's Bowl Game, but Perry maintained his COMPLETE INNOCENCE to the Assault Charges against the woman Ingham County PROSECUTORS SAID HE WAS GUILTY OF ASSAULTING. Perry, and his defense team, maintained that Perry was actually "the victim" via "mistaken identity" and "false identification" by the woman and 100% INNOCENT in regards to the ASSAULT CHARGES BROUGHT BY STATE PROSECUTORS AGAINST PERRY THAT ALLEGED THAT HE ASSAULTED THE MSU STUDENT WHILE SHE WAS OUT SOCIALIZING WITH FRIENDS NEAR THE MSU CAMPUS!
- Perry cuts a "Plea Bargain Deal" with State Prosecutors in June 2017 admitting and pleading GUILTY to the charge of ASSAULTING THE WOMAN and also admitting that he and his friends had been lying all along regarding his complete innocence regarding assaulting the woman and that he was the victim of "mistaken identity" and "false identification". As part of the "Plea Bargain Deal" the State agreed to drop a couple other additional Misdemeanor Assault Charges and Underage Drinking related charges (despite having hard evidence that Perry would have lost on in Court) as "quid pro quo" for Perry's Guilty Plea of Assault & Battery upon the woman (just as she had claimed all along - and Perry had denied all along) and Felony OoJ Resisting Arrest Assaulting an Officer in which an ELPD Officer was injured. Perry pleads GUILTY AS CHARGED to the counts on 6/28/2017 in Ingham County Court and faces a potential Sentence of as much as 2 Years Imprisonment for the crimes. Perry requests that the Judge consider sentencing him under Michigan's "Holmes Youthful Offender Trainee Act" and the Prosecution does not object.
- A week later on August 4, 2017, the Judge states that they have decided to provide Sentencing under Michigan's "HYOT" Act with the University of Michigan being the sponsor of his "Trainee" status and therefore Sentences Perry to 1 Year Formal Criminal Probation, multiple fines, community service requirement of volunteer hours
- The University of Michigan announces that they will conduct an "Internal Investigation" now that the Criminal Justice Case has run it's course and on August 11, 2017 issues a formal Statement regarding the results and findings of the "Internal Investigation". Michigan announces that they will REWARD Perry for lying to them regarding the incident for three-quarters of a year and ultimately ADMITTING that he absolutely is GUILTY of ASSAULTING the Victim in question, an MSU Female Student out socializing with friends in her college environment near campus, just as the Victim, and everybody INCLUDING PROSECUTORS other than Perry and his friends, had claimed all along - and the DIAMETRIC OPPOSITE of what Perry, and his friends, claimed all along. UMich announces that Perry, who had already been reinstated to the team by Harbaugh in the first days of June 2017, would be permitted and eligible to play unsanctioned in the 2017 Season because he Plead Guilty to the VIOLENT CRIME of ASSAULT upon this college female in her college environment near campus despite denying this crime to the UMich for almost a year and causing UMich to reinstate a FELON last year for their final 3 regular-season games based on his adamant denials maintaining that he was 100% innocent and "the victim of mistaken identity" and false accusations in regards to this woman's claims! (real nice message that sends to female college students at UMich - winning football games is clearly more important than punishing football players who physically attack female college students and then DISHONORABLLY AND COWARDLY LIE ABOUT IT to UMich and Law Enforcement Authorities!).
But of all of these UNDENIABLE FACTS ludicrously clearly demonstrate that the Prosecution sided with Perry, and his friends, version of events that evening, not the Victim's, all other people at the scene including Law Enforcement despite the PROSECUTION forcing Perry to ADMIT that he ASSALTED THE WOMAN IN QUESTION and that he and his friends WERE LYING when they said it never happened and dishonorably, disgracefully and cowardly claimed that Perry was being FALSELY ACCUSED???
Oh yea, the Judge also permitted THE VICTIM of the VIOLENT ASSAULT to read an "IMPACT STATEMENT" into the Court Record AFTER PERRY ADMITTED GUILT IN REGARDS TO ASSAULTING THE WOMAN - go figure! Here is that Statement - an accounting of the ASSALT, and its "IMPACT ON THE VICTIM OF THE VIOLENT CRIME" that the Court held to be proven:
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The victim, a Michigan State University student at the time of the incident, told Judge Joyce Draganchuk that she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after the incident.
"I was afraid of walking from class to class," she said. "I was afraid to enjoy my senior year of college because I felt that any stranger who looked at me also would do whatever they wanted to me without remorse... I would cry walking from my car to the door of my apartment and have panic attacks when I had plans to leave my apartment."
The victim futher told the court Perry "made the decision to get intoxicated, use false identification, cut in line, repeatedly harass, intimidate, demean and sexually assault me, and, finally, run from police officers."
She continued: "The defendant's eyes were one thing I'll never forget. His wide eyes while he was saying foul words, licking his lips, hunching his shoulders over me and then grabbing the most personal part of my body with intent to make me feel as if I had no control over my body," she said. "I had to physically shove him off of me, causing him to stumble backwards. When he got up and went to rush back toward me a friend had to once again push him back. Both of us feared he'd continue to assault me.
"While my entire body was physically shaking, I was crying. The aggressive harassment continued. He was mocking my words as I described how I felt violated to my friends. He stared me down while I was waiting for police to arrive, with his wide eyes and taunting smile. All while his main concern was to get into the bar.
"Just as police were arriving, the defendant entered my personal space yet again. Puffing out his chest, rounding his shoulders, yelling in my face. His friends felt the need to apologize for him. But the defendant has never once shown remorse through this entire process. In fact, he denied his actions to the fullest extent. Upon agreeing to this plea deal he has claimed to have simply pushed me out of his way."
