The legal situation surrounding Rashee Rice has reached a conclusion. The Chiefs receiver was sentenced on Thursday to five years probation and 30 days in jail, as first reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter. 
The prison sentence can be served at any time within that five-year period. Schefter adds Rice also received deferred adjudication, meaning that if he completes the probation process his case will be dismissed. This development paves the way for the NFL to move forward with its own investigation and potential discipline against Rice.
“We have been closely monitoring all developments in the matter which remains under review,” an NFL spokesman said in a statement (via Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports). The Chiefs declined to comment (h/t Jones).
Rice was one of two people driving when a Lamborghini SUV and a Corvette lost control the night of March 30, 2024. He and all five other total occupants of the two vehicles fled the scene after the accident, which came about while Rice and former college teammate Theodore Knox were believed to be street racing. Rice became the subject of an arrest warrant days later and turned himself in to police. The 25-year-old faced a total of eight felony charges stemming from the incident.
As noted by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office (via NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero), Rice entered into a plea agreement on two third-degree felonies (collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing bodily injury). Prior to the agreement, Rice had already paid for the victims’ medical costs, totaling roughly $115K.
“Last March, I was involved in a high-speed accident in Dallas,” a statement from Rice (delivered through his attorney) reads. “There have been a lot of sleepless nights thinking about the damages that my actions caused, and I will continue working within my means to make sure that everyone impacted will be made whole. I urge everyone to mind the speed limit, drive safe and drive smart.
“Last and certainly not least, I am profoundly sorry for the physical damages to person and property. I fully apologize for the harm I caused to innocent drivers and their families.”
Without a legal resolution in place by the start of the 2024 regular season, the NFL declined to place Rice on the commissioner’s exempt list. That allowed him to play and led to the expectation a suspension would not be handed down until 2025. In Week 4, the SMU product suffered a knee injury which was initially feared to be an ACL tear; further testing revealed that was not the case.
Nevertheless, Rice’s knee surgery ended his season and left the Chiefs shorthanded at the receiver spot. Two years remain on the former second-rounder’s rookie contract, and he is slated to be healthy in time for training camp. Of course, it now remains to be seen if he will be with the team at the onset of camp or if he will use the period between now and the start of the campaign to serve his jail time. In any case, today’s update should open to door to a decision regarding a suspension being made in the near future.
8 felonies and he only gets 30 days in jail to serve when he feels like it. Someone make that make sense.
He was probably backed by the NFLPA, who are ultra rich. Rich people don’t get in trouble in the US.
True, but laws for stuff like this is a joke for everyone. Even for DUI cases, you regularly see people who have had their licenses suspended several times still on the road.
Millionaires and billionaires don’t have to play by the same rules as the rest of us.
Blind justice Smh
He’s good at sports.
The Chiefs seem to have a knack for finding players who do things they get off easy for.
Tyreek Hill, Frank Clark, Rice, etc.
Its a much bigger list than that. The Chiefs love having woman beaters and DUI drivers on their team. The more injuries they have doled out, the better. Even Andy Reid’s son got pardoned by the governor for putting a little girl in a coma! Its literally a mafia ring they got going on over there. Waiting until they sign Henry Ruggs to replace Rice while he is suspended. Not only did Rice beat his girl, he also disabled two passengers!
Jordan Addison was given 12 months probation for a DUI which could have easily been just as bad, if not worse than what Rice did. It’s NOT just a Chiefs thing.
So just a Vikes and Chiefs thing 😉
I didn’t say there weren’t exceptions.
@seth It is just a Chiefs thing. Because they intentionally pick up and trade for guys with domestic violence history, and never punish anyone. Rashee Rice already has a long checkered history, which includes assaulting multiple people. Same with Tyreek Hill. He beat up his girl in college is why he fell to the fifth round. Why they traded for Frank Clark after no one wanted to touch him after his DV history. It keeps going, need me to list it out so that you get it?
It’s the ninth one that gets you, so he’s good.
He was charged with 8 felonies….
He pled guilty to 2 in the plea deal.
I’m not defending what he did, but the fuzz typically lays on as many charges as they can, which gives them room to negotiate a deal later on, especially if they think they can’t convict the defendant of all the (8, in this case) charges.
That’s completely true-the question always is, however, whether the defendant deserves leniency of a plea (if the case is good).
Okay, so 2 felonies warrants 30 days, to which he gets to pick when he serves them over the next 5 years? I get your point but cmon.
If Rice screws up, that can easily turn into probation being revoked.
The even bigger issue is that Rice had an incident in college where he was waving a gun around at his ex-girlfriend, which caused him to slip in the draft. He might just be a scumbag is the conclusion.
You would think Rice would have learned from the Jalen Carter fiasco in GA that killed two people. Stupid is, as stupid does …
If that was to me, BlackSundayz, I was responding to the stacking charges comment. My point is that prosecutors shouldn’t just default to doing plea deals, they should evaluate whether a plea is actually appropriate for the situation. In that evaluation, the two things that should be considered are 1. Is this a good case? and 2. Does this defendant deserve some level of leniency?
If the defendant is willing to plea, you figure that something in the latter category applies, but it needs to be appropriate for the incident that’s charged. If you have a good case, there’s no reason to go out of your way to make concessions to a defendant who has demands. The second circumstance (meaning leniency) should really be for considering mitigation more than anything else, if it exists in the case at hand.
Prosecutors have long caselists, I get it, but every case should be considered independently. Doing a plea just because it’s easy or because it helps clear your docket shouldn’t be considerations, and unfortunately they often are. That’s not considering that certain prosecutors are, just like in any other job, just lazy sometimes. All of them, good or bad, are overworked in a complicated field, but each case should be considered on its own merit. Not saying that’s what happened here, but just saying in general. We get too many pleas.
Lmao oh brother.
Hate me if you want, but I’m pulling for a torn ACL now.
Karma needs to do what the NFL and justice system refuse to
People still believe in karma? Bad people thrive in this world all the time. I’d say they have the upper hand on most of us because they have no morals.
How do you know you’re not also a bad person?
Question isn’t am I bad person. Question is am I as bad as you and others?
Am I a bad person? Probably
Am I as bad as someone who racks up 8 felonies being involved in driving cars way too fast that cause a severe accident that resulted in a chain collision of 4 other cars, flee the scene, and don’t check if anyone needs medical attention cause of my actions? No im not that bad of a person.
I’m probably objectively a better person than you but sure, guy.
My whole point is when we start to throw around terms like “bad people” so easily, we eventually become bad people ourselves. This has been proven throughout history.
Sure you are. You called the Covid hotlines on your neighbors and would have ratted out Anne Frank.
Anyways. Calling a bad person a bad person for causing an accident, fleeing from the scene, failing to help people you put in that situation is spot on. If you don’t like being called a bad person…..don’t cause a major accident, flee the scene, and fail to help people you put in that situation. Do better.
Karma is the passive response for the harmless
The only target that Karma can seem to hit are the Browns and Jets.
Everyone else thriving.
Well, that already happened. Seems like karma worked faster than the state of Texas this time
Justice is blind unless it sees green.
There are still people in jail for weed possession.
There are at least two women in jail for 5 plus years for voting.
Corrupt doesn’t even begin to describe…
Who’s in jail for voting?
Crystal Mason. Wasn’t eligible to vote due to previous convictions. Voted anyways. Sentenced to prison time. Voter Fraud is a felony in many states and federal level. She was sent multiple letters letting her know she’s ineligible to vote, her defense was “I never got em I was locked up”. Ignorance isn’t a defense.
You are certain that she got the junk mail and decided she was going to singlehandedly and dastardly swing the election in TEXAS…?
5 years.
Meanwhile, people with fairer skin knowingly vote twice using dead relatives names and get 30 days at most and usually much less.
Ignorance isn’t a defense.
I don’t have an opinion one way or another about the situation honestly but that’s the legal standard. You can’t claim ignorance as a defense.
I didn’t know the laws changed
I didn’t get the letters
I didn’t know I couldn’t vote
Did the fairer skin knowingly ppl happen in the same state as Taylor did? Did they have a previous criminal record like Taylor did? Cause if not you’re comparing apples and oranges
Actually, most white collar crimes require “intent” to be proven.
So, in actuality, ignorance of the law isn’t a defense of the law for the people they want to jail, but it works pretty well for the people they don’t.
You are free to be willfully blind to all of it if you like.
She intended to vote. She voted lol. Thats how she got in trouble in the first place cause she wasn’t allowed to vote. You don’t need to prove she knew she was ineligible to vote. You need to prove she broke the law, which she did.
Thats like trying to say I shouldn’t get a parking ticket on cleaning day despite the city notifying me about cleaning day, the signs are posted, but I never got the notice or never saw the sign. Again ignorance of the law isn’t a defense. You still pay the ticket. Your logic says they need to prove I parked there knowing it was illegal to do so before they give me a ticket. Lol please go park illegally and video record yourself arguing that with the traffic maid. Send us your results.
So I’ll take it the other skin colored people
Were in different states
Didn’t have previous convictions on record
And probably took a plea deal instead of going to trial like Taylor did.
Yeah skin color is TOTALLY the reason different people in different states with different criminal records got different punishments based on their different legal decisions.
Idk what’s worse
You suggesting moms going over the speed limit with kids in the car should be charged with attempted murder
Or
You think “intent” needs to be proven in order to convict someone found breaking the law.
Just quit while you’re ahead man. Not doing yourself any favors.
“White-collar crimes, such as fraud, embezzlement, insider trading, and money laundering, are unique in criminal law because they often involve complex financial transactions rather than direct physical harm. A central element of these crimes is intent—prosecutors must prove that the defendant knowingly engaged in deceptive or illegal conduct.”
Educate yourself sometime instead of just blathering and straw manning.
Speaking of which…
“On March 28, 2024, the Second District Court of Appeals overturned Mason’s voter fraud conviction. The court said in the decision that there was no evidence Mason knew she was ineligible to vote when she cast her ballot — which is a condition that must be met in order to convict her of illegal voting.”
This was after she spent years in jail, mind you.
“Supporters of Mason and voter rights activists have pointed out the discrepancy between Mason’s sentencing and the sentencing of Terri Lynn Rote, who tried to vote for Donald Trump twice; Bruce Bartman, who voted under his own name and, using an expired identification, on his deceased mother’s ballot; and Justice of the Peace Russ Casey, who admitted to forging signatures to get on the primary ballot. Rote, Bartman, and Casey received two and five years’ probation instead of Mason’s five-year sentence to jail.”
For fun, please rank in order these voting crimes from the most serious to the least…
Mason, Rote, Bartman, Casey.
Filling out a provisional ballot. Voting twice. Voted for his dead mom’s. Forged signatures.
Which strikes you as the most criminal to the least?
Weed possession, especially with large quantities, is still a crime most places. Voting when you aren’t eligible is a crime. So what is your point? If you know something is illegal, and do it anyway, you deserve to be in jail.
Do you know that a DUI can (and routinely does) result in death?
What do we NORMALLY call it when you do you something that you know can kill someone?
How do we NORMALLY punish it?
Is it with 30 days in jail whenever you get a round to it?
Justice is color blind except for green.
bullshit . I’m really tired of these athletes getting off with hardly any thing when they endanger other people
We’re now allowing people to serve jail time whenever they darn please? Sheesh.
Suspended sentences are like a “if you don’t do the really easy thing that we told you to, you’ll go to jail” kind of guarantee.
That said, 30 days suspended on 5 years is pretty light. I don’t know how Texas is, but 5 year sentences in most places are felonies. 5 years probation is much different than 5 years jail time, but it’s philosophically interesting to me to prescribe what is essentially a misdemeanor length jail sentence for a felony length time period for the probation. It seems to me that the enforcement would have more teeth if the possible jail term was, say, three years or so. That’d be more incentive to comply with the probation.
That’s just me thinking out loud, though. I have no knowledge of what the prosecution and defense discussed, nothing about the intricate facts of the case, and I know nothing about Texas’ law or the legal environment there.
Is this punishment suppose to serve as a deterrent to others? How are citizens going to respect a legal system that continually fails the victims of crime?
And what’s more? The Chiefs have become the Vikings of the 1990s through early 00s. They have seen “value” in drafting men with criminal histories or predispositions. Hunt, Hill, Worthy, Rice, Golsten, Uzomah… that’s just the past few years and off the top of my head.
At some point, just like the federal government needs to hold employers accountable for hiring undocumented workers, the NFL needs to start holding owners accountable.
And when does this wonderful Federal Government get held accountable for all the shady stuff it’s pulled over the years? Obama dropping serum gas on humans? Nope this is much worse yay for the federal government.
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Exactly. No answer
No. Not no answer. Refusing to answer your stupidity. Tell me: how is the flat earth stuff coming along? Did the Tinfoil hat convention go well?
Keep drinking the government koolaid. They love you and they will always do what’s in your best interest. Trump must be an angel in your eyes.