Quade Cooper charged with burglary

[Burgs]

Please don't pre judge him as we may still be able to get him off on a technicality...
Sounds like his arse is grass to me!

[Sheikh]

If he's going for a "I can't remember anything - someone must have slipped me Rohypnol" defence its very shaky to bring up in court. Judges can direct juries to disregard that unless there's any evidence (ie, blood test) which is difficult because the drug is broken down so quickly. If that's Cooper's only defence he'd better have had a blood test the following day.

[TOCC]

If he's going for a "I can't remember anything - someone must have slipped me Rohypnol" defence its very shaky to bring up in court. Judges can direct juries to disregard that unless there's any evidence (ie, blood test) which is difficult because the drug is broken down so quickly. If that's Cooper's only defence he'd better have had a blood test the following day.

yes it has been reported in the papers he had a drug test as soon as he was released from southport watch house

[GIGS20]

If he's going for a "I can't remember anything - someone must have slipped me Rohypnol" defence its very shaky to bring up in court. Judges can direct juries to disregard that unless there's any evidence (ie, blood test) which is difficult because the drug is broken down so quickly. If that's Cooper's only defence he'd better have had a blood test the following day.

It sounds like you're quite familiar with that defence Sheikh

[pieter blackie]

ARU, QRU to decide future of Wallabies centre Quade Cooper

THE ARU and QRU will make a decision on the future of Wallabies centre Quade Cooper before he returns for Queensland Reds' pre-season training next month.

The two unions have had contact with Cooper, who is on annual leave, for the first time since his arrest on the Gold Coast last Sunday morning.

Cooper, who started at inside centre in all of the Wallabies' four Tests on their recent tour of Britain and Ireland, was arrested near Surfers Paradise at 4am on Sunday morning and charged with burglary. He was bailed to appear in Southport Magistrates Court on Friday.

"ARU and QRU are deeply concerned that one of our players would be facing criminal charges in a matter that is now before the courts," an ARU spokesman said in a statement.

[travelling_gerry]

December 11, 2009 .Rising Wallabies star Quade Cooper will face a committal hearing on a burglary charge in July 2010.

The 21-year-old Test and Queensland centre briefly appeared in Southport Magistrates Court on Friday charged with one count of burglary of a residence in Surfers Paradise on December 6.

The case was adjourned for a committal hearing on July 2.

Cooper recently returned from a breakthrough Wallabies tour, during which he played all four Tests in Australia's grand slam quest.

ARU and QRU officials were waiting for the outcome of Friday's court appearance before making a decision on any action against Cooper, such as standing him down.

ARU boss John O'Neill has previously taken a dim view of player misbehaviour.

Speaking outside court, Cooper told reporters he hoped the proceedings would not exclude him from his playing duties.

"I definitely hope I'm playing football - that's what I love to do, so hopefully everything works out for the best," he said.

Cooper's lawyer Angelo Venardos told reporters his client would be pleading not guilty.

"Quade regrets putting himself in a position where he's left himself exposed to the allegations that he currently faces and he certainly regrets the potential embarrassment to his employers, the Australian Rugby Union, to his family and to his teammates," Mr Venardos said.

Mr Venardos said that this should not be taken as an admission that Cooper had broken the law.

"We'll continue to work with the ARU and the QRU to get to the truth of the matter and we'll be working with Queensland Police likewise to get to the truth of the matter," he said.

"I have, and Quade has, every confidence the truth will prevail and in the meantime we are just asking people not to prejudge the circumstances because it's a watch-this-space situation.

"There is a lot more to the story. It's not as if Quade and someone else has jumped in a car, packed their balaclavas and house-breaking implements and come down to the Gold Coast.

"But I am restricted in what I can say."

New Zealand-born Cooper made his Test debut against Italy in 2008 and has so far played 11 Tests for Australia.


AAP


http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,...016959,00.html

[Burgs]

because it's a watch-this-space situation
"Any publicity is good publicity"???

[AndyS]

"We'll continue to work with the ARU and the QRU to get to the truth of the matter and we'll be working with Queensland Police likewise to get to the truth of the matter"

That sounds like bulls**t of the highest order! How will working with the ARU and QRU "get to the truth of the matter" - the only person who might know that is Cooper. It reeks of "we are trying to find a story that they'll swallow".

[tragic]

It certainly reeks, doesn't it?

[Burgs]

It certainly reeks, doesn't it?

Ooops

[TOCC]

well heard the latest rumour is that Quade got home and the place he and another guy broke into was across from the room they were staying in, mistakenly they went up to the wrong apartment, thinking there mates were having a laugh by not letting them in they busted through the door, apparently no laptops were stolen, the foreign students saw this as a chance to pull of a insurance scam and told the police the laptops were stolen

[tic]

hmmmmm. I'm not sure if I swallow that.

[pieter blackie]

well heard the latest rumour is that Quade got home and the place he and another guy broke into was across from the room they were staying in, mistakenly they went up to the wrong apartment, thinking there mates were having a laugh by not letting them in they busted through the door, apparently no laptops were stolen, the foreign students saw this as a chance to pull of a insurance scam and told the police the laptops were stolen

That is a lot of detail for someone that could not remember a thing

[TOCC]

he wasnt the only one there

[pieter blackie]

he wasnt the only one there

so then there were two. I wonder if the "another guy" also belongs to the reds