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Legal Woes Continue for Tennessee Football Team

By Baker Associates

The hits keep on coming for the University of Tennessee football team, especially off the field. Just last week the team was faced with the distraction of having three players charged with attempted armed robbery which resulted in two of them being dismissed from the team and the third suspended from participating in team activities. Now this week it has been discovered that freshman safety Nyshier Oliver was arrested for shoplifting about five hours before Tennessee kicked off against Memphis on November 7th. Apparently he was spotted putting a shirt that costs about $100 in a shopping bag without paying for it at a department store in West Town Mall which led to the arrest. He has been charged with shoplifting. Shoplifting is basically punished as theft of property in Tennessee...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on November 19, 2009 (boomark / email).