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Date Posted: 11:18:46 08/26/02 Mon
Author: THE BOB HUGGINS POLITICAL MACHINE
Subject: Long Winded on Donald Little

Looks like Donald Little's chances for playing at UC have turned sour. Nice article in The Post the other day after his last continuance.

Donald Little is hoping for a plea bargain. What breaking news! I could have told you that months ago. The reason that he is still hoping is that he hasn't been given the option. Thank God someone in this town is doing their job.

In an earlier article, Donald proclaimed that the charges were false.
�It's been really tough,� said an upbeat Little, who got a nice ovation when he received awards as the team's leading rebounder and shot blocker. �I'm still fighting. The story's so screwed up. It's not true. Now I've got to go to court, fight it out, and I should come out on top. I've got faith.� .... �People who know me know I didn't do it,� he said. �It's false. It's a long story.�

Funny how now you don't hear Donald Little proclaiming innocence anymore. Funny how he doesn't appear to have the will to "fight it out" to clear his good name. They aren't even acting like he didn't do it now, they are just making a final desperate appeal for him to play basketball. That is pathetic. The last article talks about how tough things are for poor Donald. He can't leave the country because he might have to spend years in jail for attempting to kill a man. Poor, poor Donald.

All he wants to do is plead it out. No way he wants this case to go to trial. If convicted, Donald could get up to 26 years in jail. Those are tough odds, and all the evidence is stacked against him. I would ask for a continuance as well. Every continuance gives his lawyer a chance to talk to the prosecutor, to try to make a deal. If they were willing to deal, the case would have been long over. Since they have been unwilling to give in to Donald's wishes, his lawyer has taken the issue to the press, in a final pathetic attempt to help his client. I think the article hurt Little more than anything, but the motives of his attorney are surely otherwise.

Donald Little would be back on the team had his attorney been able to work out a deal. He worked Bob Huggins' basketball camp all summer, and has been working out at the Shoe in his spare time. The only thing that he needed was the plea bargain that dismisses all of his felonies. He hasn't gotten it, and it appears as though he is fighting a losing battle.

Donald was very comfortable over the summer. At the summer league, he talked about coming back in the fall. He said it was a done deal. He got a new pad in tri county, and a new ride. He must have gotten a raise. Justin Hodge, the victim, disappeared from the Cincinnati scene. Nobody in the media ever noticed.

An interesting part of the story that never made the papers went this way: A coat hanger was heated up and wrapped around Hodge's neck. The animals put him in a bathtub and tied his neck to the faucet. They then proceeded to drop weights on his face. They smashed out his teeth and broke his jaw. Hodge had to have his jaw wired shut. How would you like to have all your meals through a straw? But Justin left town, and none of those gory details ever made the papers. I guess one line said that they had dropped weights on his head, but they never provided the graphic detail. In a society where news crews race to accident scenes to provide "exclusive first on the scene footage", it surprises me that they would omit those details. Instead, the paper printed an article that had people commenting on what a nice guy Donald is. The Political Machine must have been working overtime.

According to my sources, Justin Hodge was offered $25,000.00 by a UC booster to let it go and walk away. Hodge dropped out of sight, and hasn't been heard of since. Nobody in the media has thought to seek him for a comment in this case. The problem for Donald Little is that he is charged with a felony, and those are serious. Justin Hodge cannot by himself drop the charges.

In Hamilton County, the prosecutor will drop a misdemeanor case if the victim wants to drop it. A felony case is different. It is the State of Ohio against Donald Little, not just Justin Hodge. I believe that Hodge was willing to let it slide, and he accepted the offer from the booster. That probably prompted Mike OfCoursey's midsummer article commenting on how the case against Little had grown weaker. Hodge is no longer wanting to nail him.

Why am I sure that Hodge has backed off? He is my proof: Say that you are Justin Hodge. Donald Little busted your fucking jaw and smashed out all of your teeth. He tied you up and cut you. He beat you with all manner of things. He threatened to kill you, and just may have if you hadn't escaped. Little is on trial and he could go upstate for up to 26 years. All of the sudden they are publicly appealing for a plea bargain that drops all the charges to minor crimes. What would you do? Where is Justin Hodge's outrage? What prosecutor would even sit in the room and listen to the argument for pleading this down if his victim wanted justice? Those prosecutors tend to have political and/or career aspirations. Trading a victims demand for justice so that a 24 year old career criminal can play basketball would make them look like shit. Hodge has to be playing along, or they wouldn't even dare mention it to the media. Speaking of the media, where is Justin Hodge's reaction to little having these serious crimes dismissed to misdemeanors? It isn't there. Why not? Just another case of great investigative reporting by our local rags.

I hope that Hodge got his money up front. The State of Ohio does not appear to be willing to compromise and dismiss the serious crimes from this case. They shouldn�t. Donald Little is a repeat violent offender. Donald Little is a threat to society. Donald Little deserves to go to jail. His basketball career looks to be over, and with that final stroke, nobody needs Justin Hodge anymore. Once Donald is worthless to the boosters, Justin Hodge also becomes worthless. If Hodge doesn�t have his money yet, I am thinking that he will never see that money. I would never wish what happened to Justin Hodge to anyone, but in selling out, Justin Hodge probably received exactly what he deserves. It would be funny if he never got his payoff.

One way or another, Donald Little will never let this case go to trial. He can�t afford to do that. His goal was never to win this case. He can�t win. Too much evidence is stacked against the animal. His goal was to play basketball again, and that will change. His new goal will be to get out of an extended stay in the joint. He can probably plead to a felony and spend a few months in jail. If he goes to trial, he could be locked up for 26 years. You do the math. I could spend a month in jail, if the jail was full of other guys that were also in for a month or so, not the hard core butt fuckers up state. Spending 5 years with those ass manglers would change anyone�s perspective on life, and not in a good way. Even a hard core violent felon like Donald Little doesn�t what that.

Too bad we will never get a trial. To the media, Little can always offer no comment. In a court, he would have to address the issues, including the origin of the $2,500 that started the whole incident. I am dying to know his official, on the record excuse for that. That school is as crooked as they come, and they did everything in their power to get him back in black for the fall.

This time, though, it appears that the Bob Huggins political machine has failed. I don�t think that big Don is coming back. For the first time in awhile, UC won�t be allowed to make it all go away.

BOB HUGGINS HAS NO INTEGRITY

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[> Damn Machine! I would hate to have you pissed at me. I want to see Little in an orange jumpsuit picking up trash on 71 (btw, I think littering helps the economy - somebody has to pick it up) -- NO JUSTCE! NO PEACE!, 11:25:12 08/26/02 Mon

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[> I know how you feel big Donald. Those 'white trash' losers messed with me and look what I did to them. Make any deal you can and get back on the court. -- Lizzie Grubman, 15:39:46 08/26/02 Mon

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[> [> I actually Saw Lizzie this Feb in NYC - she is not that bad looking - her voice is annoying though... -- Pablo, 15:58:07 08/26/02 Mon

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