these athletes fought the law and the
law won an officer with a law
enforcement task force targeting
drinking and driving saw Barkley run a
stop sign about 1:30 in the morning in
Scottsdale Arizona welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 athletes
who went to jail we’re here at the
Bristol County house of correction in
Dartmouth where an investigation is
underway this noontime into a fight
between the best-known inmate in this
jail aaron hernandez and another inmate
for this list we’re taking a look at
superstar athletes who’ve spent time
behind bars Lawrence Phillips is making
headlines again now in prison in
California prosecutors accused the
former NFL running back of first-degree
murder number 10 Floyd Mayweather jr.
this boxer who went undefeated in his
career with 49 wins 26 knockouts and 12
world titles has also been arrested
several times since 2002 for domestic
violence charges including battery and
harassment in 2010 ex girlfriend Josie
Harris pressed charges against
Mayweather claiming that he had twisted
her arm and pulled her hair in front of
two of their children for this incident
Mayweather was sentenced to 87 days in
the Clark County Detention Center in Las
Vegas though he was released a month
early for good behavior no I was like I
was locked up I was in all of them yeah
and I was doing 1,300 push-ups a day so
that’s the only thing I can’t do number
9
Rae Carruth Rae Carruth went from being
a phenom wide receiver for the Carolina
Panthers to the janitor at the jailhouse
not wanting to father a child this
former wide receiver for the Carolina
Panthers opted instead to allegedly hire
an assailant to shoot his pregnant
girlfriend sharika Adams got this job
even thought where are you happy as she
and Carruth were coming back from a
movie Adams was shot by Van Brett
Watkins senior on November 16 19
9 dying almost a month later Adams baby
did survive the attack however he
suffered permanent brain damage as a
result guilty of using an estimate with
intent to destroy an unborn child guilty
of conspiracy to commit murder of
sharika Adams
in 2001 Carruth was found guilty of
conspiracy to commit murder in addition
to two other counts and was sentenced to
a minimum of 18 years in prison meaning
he could be released as early as 2018 he
is now 41 and is working as a prison
barber making one dollar a day
number 8 Eugene mercury Morris if 17
trees fell in the forest 35 years ago
did they make a sound answer yes you
just maybe weren’t there to hear it a
running back for the Miami Dolphins
mercury Morris was proud to be part of
their 1972 undefeated season I came
through there and not nobody touched me
21 people on the field no one touched me
I thought jeez this is easy
I didn’t even staples button I can get
this done but he’d probably rather
forget about the drug conviction he
received after his NFL career ended in
1982 Morris was found guilty of cocaine
trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in
prison
however Morris was able to have his
sentence reviewed and got a new trial he
pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of
possession and was released in 1986
after having served only three years in
jail before taunting you know before
there was a sin there was no law before
the sinned so like I I was a sinner in
that in that respect number 7 Lawrence
Phillips
well football players are born to be
violent they are they are in the most
violent sport born to be violent we’re
two separate incidents this former NFL
and CFL running back was sentenced to
more than 30 years in prison in 2009 he
was found guilty of seven counts of
domestic abuse against his girlfriend
and four years earlier he’d been found
guilty of assault after intentionally
using his car to run over three
teenagers in 2015 while in prison he was
accused of killing his cellmate but in
January of 2016
before he could stand trial for murder
he was found dead in his cell his death
considered a suicide number six Rubin
hurricane Carter trying to survive this
brick and mortar and steel and hatred
and anger and hostility and humiliation
in a serious miscarriage of justice
this middleweight boxer was twice
wrongfully convicted of a triple murder
that took place in Paterson New Jersey
when his first conviction was thrown out
due to unreliable eyewitness testimony
Carter’s second trial caught the
attention of Bob Dylan who in 1975
released a protest song on Carter’s
behalf Carter spent nearly 20 years in
prison but was released in 1985 when a
federal judge overturned his second
conviction due to what he considered the
prosecution’s quote appeal to racism
rather than reason I hereby order Rubin
Carter released from prison after his
release
Carter moved to Toronto Canada and
became an activist for the wrongfully
convicted it’s always been a hurricane
we went caught it that’s that’s we were
caught at the hurricane and hurricane
beautiful number five Aaron Hernandez
known initially as a tight end for the
New England Patriots Hernandez received
a life sentence for the 2013 murder of
Odin Lloyd a 27 year old
semi-professional football player and
landscaper Lloyd was an acquaintance of
Hernandez who was dating his fiancee
sister at the time of his death guilty
of murder in the first degree
not only was Hernandez found guilty of
first-degree murder he was also found
guilty of unlawful possession of a
firearm in 2012 Hernandez was also
indicted for a double murder that took
place outside a nightclub in Boston a
case that was postponed due to the Lloyd
murder trial number four Michael Vick
they didn’t think I would end up going
to prison eventually and you know I was
dramatic change for everybody’s life a
former NFL quarterback with the Atlanta
Falcons michael vick is arguably now
better known for his involvement in an
illegal dogfighting operation beating
him shooting him electrocuting him
drowning them horrific things Michael
what’s wrong Vicks troubles began in
2007 when his father informed the press
of dogfights his son was involved in
dating back to 2001 soon after the news
spread Vick was released from the
Falcons endorsement deals dried up and
he wound up serving 21 months in a
Kansas federal prison upon his release
Vicks career rebounded quickly when he
was signed to the Philadelphia Eagles in
2009 and earned the AP NFL Comeback
Player of the Year award in 2010 you
know just glad I had a chance to come
back this year come back strong and you
know
you know I have another opportunity play
football number three Mike Tyson I was a
simple guy I’m I didn’t have to fight
nobody violence my hate I don’t do the
other guy the fight they know I was a
simple guy Iron Mike was on top of the
boxing world in the 80s becoming the
youngest fighter to win the WBC
heavyweight title why does the 97 things
went bad fast
in 1992 Tyson was sentenced to six years
in prison after being convicted of
raping an eighteen-year-old beauty
contestant in Indianapolis but only
served three years of his sentence you
really never know until you actually
spent the amount of time in prison this
is only two years for me
Tyson returned to boxing afterwards but
was briefly banned from the sport
following a match with Evander Holyfield
wherein Tyson bit off a chunk of
Holyfield’s ear then he bites him there
you see him lift his teeth and Holyfield
in agony meanwhile outside of the ring
Tyson was sentenced to a year in prison
for assault in 1999 after he allegedly
attacked two people in a bad case of
road rage tonight first day since Remax
number two
Oscar Pistorius known as Blade Runner
this South African Paralympian won the
gold medal for the men’s 400 meter race
at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
and was a source of inspiration to many
an Olympic hero charged with murder muda
muda that was until 2013 when Pistorius
was accused of intentionally murdering
his girlfriend reeva Steenkamp Pistorius
shot her four times through a bathroom
wall but he claimed he thought there was
an intruder breaking into the house
guilty of murder with the accused having
had criminal intent in the form of
notice eventually Pistorius was
originally found guilty of culpable
homicide and received a five-year prison
sentence but was released from prison
and placed under house arrest in October
2015 his initial verdict was overturned
in favor of a murder conviction
resulting in a new trial held in June
2016 before we unveil our number one
pick here are a few honorable or in this
case dishonorable mentions I’ve gone to
prison for trying to have somebody
all the other baggage in my life you
know who is going to look at me
with without a biased opinion you know
my gun would off I clearly shot myself I
will be reprimanded for it buddy go to
jail for two years for that I can’t say
I deserve this convicted on drug charges
and set to prison turning his life
around but it’s very serious and mom
made a poor choice and look she went to
jail we don’t want to make poor choice
Williams was sentenced to five years in
state prison with a minimum 18 months
under a plea deal he entered with
prosecutors last month number one Oh Jay
Simpson a Hall of Fame running back for
the Buffalo Bills actor and popular
spokesperson OJ Simpson’s fall from
grace began with his infamous slow speed
chase right now we’re all okay but you
got a telephone cousin back off he’s
still alive he kind of stuck with it
although he was ultimately found not
guilty of the 1994 murders of his
ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron
Goldman Simpson’s reputation never
recovered count to conspiracy to commit
kidnapping I’m in a determines maximum
of 48 months and the Nevada Department
of Corrections then in 2007 Simpson led
a group of men who allegedly broke into
a Las Vegas hotel room in an attempt to
retrieve some memorabilia he claimed was
rightfully his guilty what was my stuff
I followed but I thought the law my
lawyer told me you can’t breaking the
guys know I didn’t break into
this resulted in charges of kidnapping
and armed robbery and Simpson was handed
33 years in prison with a 9 year minimum
sentence a fixed term of 15 years with
parole eligibility beginning after five
years with a consecutive 12 to 72 not a
run concurrent to count 5 do you agree
with our list which incarcerated athlete
do you think deserved the top spot I was
convicted I even went in court for more
entertaining top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you know you know Floyd Mayweather ten
years ago was different like I said
before it’s different from the Floyd
Mayweather no
you
law won an officer with a law
enforcement task force targeting
drinking and driving saw Barkley run a
stop sign about 1:30 in the morning in
Scottsdale Arizona welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 athletes
who went to jail we’re here at the
Bristol County house of correction in
Dartmouth where an investigation is
underway this noontime into a fight
between the best-known inmate in this
jail aaron hernandez and another inmate
for this list we’re taking a look at
superstar athletes who’ve spent time
behind bars Lawrence Phillips is making
headlines again now in prison in
California prosecutors accused the
former NFL running back of first-degree
murder number 10 Floyd Mayweather jr.
this boxer who went undefeated in his
career with 49 wins 26 knockouts and 12
world titles has also been arrested
several times since 2002 for domestic
violence charges including battery and
harassment in 2010 ex girlfriend Josie
Harris pressed charges against
Mayweather claiming that he had twisted
her arm and pulled her hair in front of
two of their children for this incident
Mayweather was sentenced to 87 days in
the Clark County Detention Center in Las
Vegas though he was released a month
early for good behavior no I was like I
was locked up I was in all of them yeah
and I was doing 1,300 push-ups a day so
that’s the only thing I can’t do number
9
Rae Carruth Rae Carruth went from being
a phenom wide receiver for the Carolina
Panthers to the janitor at the jailhouse
not wanting to father a child this
former wide receiver for the Carolina
Panthers opted instead to allegedly hire
an assailant to shoot his pregnant
girlfriend sharika Adams got this job
even thought where are you happy as she
and Carruth were coming back from a
movie Adams was shot by Van Brett
Watkins senior on November 16 19
9 dying almost a month later Adams baby
did survive the attack however he
suffered permanent brain damage as a
result guilty of using an estimate with
intent to destroy an unborn child guilty
of conspiracy to commit murder of
sharika Adams
in 2001 Carruth was found guilty of
conspiracy to commit murder in addition
to two other counts and was sentenced to
a minimum of 18 years in prison meaning
he could be released as early as 2018 he
is now 41 and is working as a prison
barber making one dollar a day
number 8 Eugene mercury Morris if 17
trees fell in the forest 35 years ago
did they make a sound answer yes you
just maybe weren’t there to hear it a
running back for the Miami Dolphins
mercury Morris was proud to be part of
their 1972 undefeated season I came
through there and not nobody touched me
21 people on the field no one touched me
I thought jeez this is easy
I didn’t even staples button I can get
this done but he’d probably rather
forget about the drug conviction he
received after his NFL career ended in
1982 Morris was found guilty of cocaine
trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in
prison
however Morris was able to have his
sentence reviewed and got a new trial he
pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of
possession and was released in 1986
after having served only three years in
jail before taunting you know before
there was a sin there was no law before
the sinned so like I I was a sinner in
that in that respect number 7 Lawrence
Phillips
well football players are born to be
violent they are they are in the most
violent sport born to be violent we’re
two separate incidents this former NFL
and CFL running back was sentenced to
more than 30 years in prison in 2009 he
was found guilty of seven counts of
domestic abuse against his girlfriend
and four years earlier he’d been found
guilty of assault after intentionally
using his car to run over three
teenagers in 2015 while in prison he was
accused of killing his cellmate but in
January of 2016
before he could stand trial for murder
he was found dead in his cell his death
considered a suicide number six Rubin
hurricane Carter trying to survive this
brick and mortar and steel and hatred
and anger and hostility and humiliation
in a serious miscarriage of justice
this middleweight boxer was twice
wrongfully convicted of a triple murder
that took place in Paterson New Jersey
when his first conviction was thrown out
due to unreliable eyewitness testimony
Carter’s second trial caught the
attention of Bob Dylan who in 1975
released a protest song on Carter’s
behalf Carter spent nearly 20 years in
prison but was released in 1985 when a
federal judge overturned his second
conviction due to what he considered the
prosecution’s quote appeal to racism
rather than reason I hereby order Rubin
Carter released from prison after his
release
Carter moved to Toronto Canada and
became an activist for the wrongfully
convicted it’s always been a hurricane
we went caught it that’s that’s we were
caught at the hurricane and hurricane
beautiful number five Aaron Hernandez
known initially as a tight end for the
New England Patriots Hernandez received
a life sentence for the 2013 murder of
Odin Lloyd a 27 year old
semi-professional football player and
landscaper Lloyd was an acquaintance of
Hernandez who was dating his fiancee
sister at the time of his death guilty
of murder in the first degree
not only was Hernandez found guilty of
first-degree murder he was also found
guilty of unlawful possession of a
firearm in 2012 Hernandez was also
indicted for a double murder that took
place outside a nightclub in Boston a
case that was postponed due to the Lloyd
murder trial number four Michael Vick
they didn’t think I would end up going
to prison eventually and you know I was
dramatic change for everybody’s life a
former NFL quarterback with the Atlanta
Falcons michael vick is arguably now
better known for his involvement in an
illegal dogfighting operation beating
him shooting him electrocuting him
drowning them horrific things Michael
what’s wrong Vicks troubles began in
2007 when his father informed the press
of dogfights his son was involved in
dating back to 2001 soon after the news
spread Vick was released from the
Falcons endorsement deals dried up and
he wound up serving 21 months in a
Kansas federal prison upon his release
Vicks career rebounded quickly when he
was signed to the Philadelphia Eagles in
2009 and earned the AP NFL Comeback
Player of the Year award in 2010 you
know just glad I had a chance to come
back this year come back strong and you
know
you know I have another opportunity play
football number three Mike Tyson I was a
simple guy I’m I didn’t have to fight
nobody violence my hate I don’t do the
other guy the fight they know I was a
simple guy Iron Mike was on top of the
boxing world in the 80s becoming the
youngest fighter to win the WBC
heavyweight title why does the 97 things
went bad fast
in 1992 Tyson was sentenced to six years
in prison after being convicted of
raping an eighteen-year-old beauty
contestant in Indianapolis but only
served three years of his sentence you
really never know until you actually
spent the amount of time in prison this
is only two years for me
Tyson returned to boxing afterwards but
was briefly banned from the sport
following a match with Evander Holyfield
wherein Tyson bit off a chunk of
Holyfield’s ear then he bites him there
you see him lift his teeth and Holyfield
in agony meanwhile outside of the ring
Tyson was sentenced to a year in prison
for assault in 1999 after he allegedly
attacked two people in a bad case of
road rage tonight first day since Remax
number two
Oscar Pistorius known as Blade Runner
this South African Paralympian won the
gold medal for the men’s 400 meter race
at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
and was a source of inspiration to many
an Olympic hero charged with murder muda
muda that was until 2013 when Pistorius
was accused of intentionally murdering
his girlfriend reeva Steenkamp Pistorius
shot her four times through a bathroom
wall but he claimed he thought there was
an intruder breaking into the house
guilty of murder with the accused having
had criminal intent in the form of
notice eventually Pistorius was
originally found guilty of culpable
homicide and received a five-year prison
sentence but was released from prison
and placed under house arrest in October
2015 his initial verdict was overturned
in favor of a murder conviction
resulting in a new trial held in June
2016 before we unveil our number one
pick here are a few honorable or in this
case dishonorable mentions I’ve gone to
prison for trying to have somebody
all the other baggage in my life you
know who is going to look at me
with without a biased opinion you know
my gun would off I clearly shot myself I
will be reprimanded for it buddy go to
jail for two years for that I can’t say
I deserve this convicted on drug charges
and set to prison turning his life
around but it’s very serious and mom
made a poor choice and look she went to
jail we don’t want to make poor choice
Williams was sentenced to five years in
state prison with a minimum 18 months
under a plea deal he entered with
prosecutors last month number one Oh Jay
Simpson a Hall of Fame running back for
the Buffalo Bills actor and popular
spokesperson OJ Simpson’s fall from
grace began with his infamous slow speed
chase right now we’re all okay but you
got a telephone cousin back off he’s
still alive he kind of stuck with it
although he was ultimately found not
guilty of the 1994 murders of his
ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron
Goldman Simpson’s reputation never
recovered count to conspiracy to commit
kidnapping I’m in a determines maximum
of 48 months and the Nevada Department
of Corrections then in 2007 Simpson led
a group of men who allegedly broke into
a Las Vegas hotel room in an attempt to
retrieve some memorabilia he claimed was
rightfully his guilty what was my stuff
I followed but I thought the law my
lawyer told me you can’t breaking the
guys know I didn’t break into
this resulted in charges of kidnapping
and armed robbery and Simpson was handed
33 years in prison with a 9 year minimum
sentence a fixed term of 15 years with
parole eligibility beginning after five
years with a consecutive 12 to 72 not a
run concurrent to count 5 do you agree
with our list which incarcerated athlete
do you think deserved the top spot I was
convicted I even went in court for more
entertaining top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you know you know Floyd Mayweather ten
years ago was different like I said
before it’s different from the Floyd
Mayweather no
you
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