Jun 27th 2008 9:45AM by Josh Alper (author feed)
Filed under: Broncos, AFC West, Denver, NFL Police BlotterYesterday we brought you some of the conflicting stories concerning Brandon Marshall’s March arrest for domestic violence. Marshall’s denials ranged from the abject to the vague but overriding the whole thing was his assertion that he was the victim of a shakedown attempt and not a serial batterer of women.

Now, the attorney for Marshall’s former girlfriend has fired back at the Bronco receiver.
“His story that he has been a victim is as pathetic as the story that he slipped on a McDonald’s bag and injured his arm,” David McGill, one of the two attorneys representing Rasheedah Watley, said Thursday night. “Hopefully, he will be as eager to tell his story in a court of law, under oath, as he has been in the media.”
McGill also contradicted any notion that there was no physical abuse by saying that there was physical evidence to prove that part of his case. Marshall maintains that the only physical interaction was when Watley’s sisters attacked him, causing a cut on his hand noted by police on the night in question.

In the , Bernie Lincicome argues that it might be time for the Broncos to prepare a way out for Marshall.

Nothing he has done on the field or off the field would indicate he is more trouble than he is worth. Yet.
I think on the field trumps off the field in the NFL, which is why, short of a case of Pacman fever, Marshall will be with the Broncos this season.

Jun 26th 2008 12:10PM by Josh Alper (author feed)
Filed under: Broncos, AFC West, Denver, NFL Police BlotterWe’re still waiting for any fallout from the revelation that Brandon Marshall was arrested for the third time in 12 months in March but Marshall is going on the offensive against his accuser. He claims that Rasheedah Watley was trying to extort money and a car from him in exchange for keeping their affairs out of a courtroom. Her attorney emailed Harvey Steinberg, attorney for Marshall, and Steinberg provided details of the email to the .
More than a year later, in an e-mail to Steinberg, O’Marra maintained that Marshall had offered to put Watley up in a furnished apartment for a year, get her a car comparable to her former BMW 645 and put $30,000 in her checking account, and that a settlement of $150,000 would be accepted. Five days later, that figure had shrunk to $100,000.
That was more than a year after a previous domestic violence charge against Marshall. When he refused to comply, Steinberg claims that the most recent charges, which he calls “unfounded,” came to light. He also said the March incident was a figment of the imagination.

It’s hard to believe that assertion. The reports that when police were summoned to Marshall’s home on March 4th, they found the receiver bleeding from a cut on his hand. Watley claims that Marshall found a text message from another man on her phone and beat her as a result.Continue Reading

Jun 25th 2008 9:20AM by Josh Alper (author feed)
Filed under: Broncos, AFC West, Denver, NFL Police BlotterYesterday Brandon Marshall got himself dragged into an unsavory situation thanks to shoddy journalism. Today he’s there because of his own actions. The , via , reports this morning that the Bronco receiver was arrested for misdemeanor battery in Atlanta on March 6th after a complaint from his girlfriend.
Rasheedah Watley, 24, filed an affidavit in Fulton County Magistrate Court on March 5 claiming that a day earlier Marshall hit her in the mouth and left eye, leaving her with, according to the criminal warrant, “visible marks above the eye and a laceration on her top and bottom lip. It was the third arrest in less than a year for Marshall, the second for domestic violence and he’s had a couple of other instances where charges weren’t filed. No formal charges have been filed yet in this case, either. The arrest came 16 days before Marshall badly injured his arm in the McDonald’s bag slip/wrestling match with his brother.

Marshall could face discipline from the league under the Personal Conduct Policy. The trifecta in one year would not work in his favor, and could face more of an issue if the arrests were concealed. Pacman Jones got in more trouble by hiding his run-ins with the law from the NFL. A spokesman for the NFL said they are looking into the arrest right now but didn’t indicate when the league was made aware of it.Continue Reading