Updated: Isaiah Crowell retains high-profile Atlanta attorney, heads to Alabama State
UPDATE: Alabama State head coach Reggie Barlow confirms Isaiah Crowell’s transfer to FCS school. New story coming soon . . .
Isaiah Crowell is transferring to Alabama State University and the ousted Georgia running back has retained high-profile Atlanta criminal defense attorney Steve Sadow to represent him on weapons charges.
Crowell, a rising sophomore, was dismissed by the Bulldogs this past Friday. He faces two felony weapons charges and one misdemeanor charged after a 9-mm Luger handgun with an defaced serial number was found underneath the driver’s seat of the 2005 Mercury Grand Marquis he was driving.
Reached by telephone Thursday, Sadow said he will be representing Crowell “pro bono,” which means he won’t be charging for his services. Sadow has represented such high-profile clients as the rapper T.I., and defended former Georgia basketball player Tony Cole on a rape charge, which was eventually dismissed.
Sadow said he reached out to Crowell via social media after reading reports of his arrest and seeing “some serious problems with the search” of Crowell’s vehicle that resulted in his arrest. Sadow said he met with Crowell this past Tuesday to discuss the case.
“My inclination based on reading the police report is to question the validity of the search,” Sadow said. “I’m hoping that somebody takes a real, close, careful look at this. The University of Georgia has already taken action, so whatever the prosecutor determines regarding an invalid or unlawful search, that’s not going to change Isaiah’s career at the University of Georgia. One way or another he’s certainly moved on.”
Sadow could not confirm or deny multiple unconfirmed reports that Crowell, the reigning AP SEC Freshman of the Year, is transferring to Alabama State University in Montgomery. UGA officials contacted by the AJC Thursday had no direct knowledge that is Crowell’s destination and no one from Alabama State has returned messages seeking confirmation. No one associated with Crowell has returned messages or phone calls.
“I do know his intention is to play football and his intention is to play football as soon as he possibly can,” Sadow said.
Sadow added that his only connection with Crowell is with his court case. “I’m not going to be his adviser,” he said.
The felony charges notwithstanding, Crowell would be immediately eligible at Alabama State since it is a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) school (formerly Div. I-AA). NCAA rules require a transfer to sit out one year when transferring from one Football Bowl Subdivision school to another.
It would be somewhat unusual for a player of Crowell’s caliber to transfer to an FCS school. Typically a high-profile athlete of his ilk would transfer to junior college for a year, then return to the FBS via another school. That was the route chosen by former Georgia quarterback Zach Mettenberger, who stood accused of a felony. Mettenberger transferred to Butler (Kansas) Community College and played one year before landing at LSU, where he’s expected to start this coming season.
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I dropped my fried twinkie
July 5th, 2012
8:27 pm
01HAWK…………WHAT World would that be that KNOWS about Alabama State?
01HAWK
July 5th, 2012
8:27 pm
Georgia redshirt sophomore inside linebacker Brandon Burrows has decided to transfer to another school in hopes of landing more playing time and has been granted an unconditional release, according to the school.
WOW…………………………….They are dropping like someone had a fly swatter. What is going on in ATHENS ?
01HAWK
July 5th, 2012
8:28 pm
I dropped my fried twinkie
July 5th, 2012
8:27 pm
01HAWK…………WHAT World would that be that KNOWS about Alabama
Definitely not your world…………………………….But who wants to be in your world ?
01HAWK
July 5th, 2012
8:28 pm
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Rossville Bulldog
July 5th, 2012
8:32 pm
Thank you Steve Sadow for fighting this injustice. The Athens PD is out of control.
Dawg-Gawn
July 5th, 2012
8:32 pm
Not a fly swatter… but a pee cup!
uncledaddy
July 5th, 2012
8:34 pm
What has happened to Tailback U? A place where tremendous talent doesn’t stay for very long.
UGA Dwags
July 5th, 2012
8:37 pm
Someone asked about his twitter account:
https://twitter.com/iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Pearls of wisdom. A guy you would want your daughter to bring home to meet I am sure.
Atllaw
July 5th, 2012
8:39 pm
Sadow went to Emory Law for what it’s worth.
AAAAA Montgomery Bail Bonds R Us
July 5th, 2012
8:43 pm
Any arrests in Montgomery today?
Troup Co. Dawg
July 5th, 2012
8:45 pm
So long Journalism want-to-be’s, this site is full of hatred, idiotic, moronic folks with no other way to blow off their steam. I will get my daily dose of Dawgs somewhere else from now on! All I care about is the Dawgs and the upcoming season! Goodbye ! And Go Dawgs !!!
01HAWK
July 5th, 2012
8:53 pm
bitter dawgggs fan/insider
July 5th, 2012
8:49 pm
good people in every race———–just seems to me most white folks have moved beound 1950
Never can forget what the white race did not our ancestors……………………………NEVER
I dropped my fried twinkie
July 5th, 2012
8:58 pm
01HAWK if I drive for 3 hours away from Alabama State do you really think ANYBODY will know what the School is famous for or what their mascot is or think it is an Institution of Higher Education or do you think 70% of the people will think I am talking about the Alabama State Pen? I will give you 3-to-1 odds within 100 miles. 5-to-1 odds outside 100 to 300 miles. i will give you 50-to 3 odds from 300 to Europe.
Dawg-Gawn
July 5th, 2012
8:59 pm
UGA Dwags: it’s called youth culture part of the Hip Hop Rap Gangsta or “Tha Street Slang” language.
You must be a Cave Man?
c'mon man
July 5th, 2012
9:02 pm
i am astonished people think the cops were “fishing”. first off, anyone who has ever been a student or lived near campus or around campus knows you dont go joy riding with your friends on a thursday night going into a friday morning around athens. you can find a road block on a thursday night in athens easier than you can blink. secondly, knowing the above, you would have to be insane to even step into your car with cough syrup in athens. on a thursday night into friday morning cops are out in athens looking for drunk drivers and the after effects of the biggest “go out” night in athens down at the bars. of course it is foolish to be carrying around a gun with an altered serial number, but did everyone already over look the huge point: he is 19 years old, he isnt even allowed to legally own a handgun or carry a handgun for another two years. and last time i checked, he wasnt carrying around a deer rifle shining deer in the early morning when he was arrested. fishing or not, he isnt supposed to even have a gun, which should yield punishment. not probation. the fellow above me said it no better: put us average joes in crowell’s situation… there isnt even a news article about us, or the talks of getting off with probation, we are hoping we just get 5 years instead of 15 in the pen. this whole story is a joke, and i promise you he will take this as just a slap on the hand. we will hear from crow soon. and it wont be for tearing up the field at bama state.
I dropped my fried twinkie
July 5th, 2012
9:04 pm
o1HAWK…………..have you FORGIVEN the AFRICAN TRIBES that kicked your ancestors Butt and then slod away men women and children to the SLAVE TRADERS……..Very few Whites went INTO Africa to STEAL black to make them SLAVES. The Waring and winning TRIBES sold other Africans to the Slave traders………….But you keep reading Malcolm X and Jesse and Al and OBAMA to get the NEW Black History.
I dropped my fried twinkie
July 5th, 2012
9:18 pm
01HAWK were the conditions any better than this?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151048257941043&set=p.10151048257941043&type=1&theater
where to you think more black people will sleep tonight?
I dropped my fried twinkie
July 5th, 2012
9:22 pm
UGa’s backfield before Crowell did his thing…….
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=357166841020446&set=a.208994629171002.49708.208877045849427&type=1&theater
bitter dawgggs fan/insider
July 6th, 2012
12:07 am
Towers is a puzzzzzzzzzzzzy———-corp.writer
at least the deadhead cravell allows people to speak—-not be sensored—el-castro
bitter dawgggs fan/insider
July 6th, 2012
12:09 am
@hawk—–you made my point———-thanks for honesty
FATS OREILLY
July 6th, 2012
12:21 am
Color IC GONE……………….Good luck UGA Tried to help ya
Now help yourself IC
Fl. Dog
July 6th, 2012
7:13 am
Why give this pompous, arrogant, no work ethic, whinning mammy’s boy any press at all? Forget the cry baby and let him go into oblivion without all this press fanfare!! Good riddance to the hemorrhoid!!!!
The Tide is Rolling and Nothing can stop it
July 6th, 2012
7:44 am
You think he’ll face a tougher schedule at Alabama state?
dawgs1966
July 7th, 2012
5:25 pm
hmmmmm – almost all that end up with a problem are at, going to or coming from Athens, or somebody’s “red light district” – - wonder what the “fall” rate is for non-athletes (which one never hears about) ??? At least the liquor barons are flourishing . . .
RamboDog
July 8th, 2012
6:03 pm
bama52, see you in the dome…nope, that will be LSU. They said they will kick your butts this year with an ex UGA QB. We beat ya’ll 3 of last 5, not scared of bunch of Bama hicks. Has someone been “Tea bagging your head” bro? LOL
Megan
July 9th, 2012
10:54 am
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Yellow Fuzz
July 9th, 2012
10:07 pm
176 telling comments by the most spoiled fan base in America.