Archive for Thursday, August 07, 2008
USC football recruit found guilty in street robbery
Dominguez High star Maurice Simmons awaits Aug. 28 sentencing; USC officials will now review his admission to school.
A Compton jury on Wednesday found USC linebacker recruit Maurice Simmons guilty of two felonies and a misdemeanor in connection with a street robbery in March.
Simmons’ codefendant, Lamont Lee Hall, was also found guilty.
Simmons, a Compton Dominguez High graduate, had been charged with felony robbery, assault with a firearm and a misdemeanor charge of allowing someone to bring a gun into his car. He is in police custody without bail, pending sentencing scheduled for Aug. 28. He faces a maximum 7 1/2 years in prison, according to prosecutor Patrick Frey.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies arrested Simmons and Hall after they robbed a man at gunpoint on a Compton street. Though Simmons was not alleged to have handled the gun, authorities said they found the firearm and the victim’s belongings in his car.
The verdict announced just before USC’s first summer practice and Coach Pete Carroll could not be reached for comment. Simmons is not expected to be admitted to the university.
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