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CoC, you'll really love this. A guy who got off on murder charges in DR by paying the victim's family $139K is getting a second chance at MLB.........with the Giants, who took the "high road" on Melky Cabrera last year.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/former-murder-suspect-angel-villalona-obtains-visa-headed-080357739--mlb.html

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CoC, you'll really love this. A guy who got off on murder charges in DR by paying the victim's family $139K is getting a second chance at MLB.........with the Giants, who took the "high road" on Melky Cabrera last year.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/former-murder-suspect-angel-villalona-obtains-visa-headed-080357739--mlb.html

That is a tough one.

I hate to assume guilt.

The Giants tried to cut ties and were sued.

Just ugly all around.

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Um... wasn't Alfredo Simon cleared of murder charges himself?

I don't remember any reports that Simon paid off the victim to get the case dropped, as this guy apparently did. I think in Simon's case it was legitimately determined after an investigation that he wasn't involved in the murder.

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I don't remember any reports that Simon paid off the victim to get the case dropped, as this guy apparently did. I think in Simon's case it was legitimately determined after an investigation that he wasn't involved in the murder.

As legitimate as it gets in the Dominican Republic anyway.

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I don't remember any reports that Simon paid off the victim to get the case dropped, as this guy apparently did. I think in Simon's case it was legitimately determined after an investigation that he wasn't involved in the murder.

I don't think he paid off the victim.

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Simon was not ever on the hook for murder. Manslaughter would of been the max. He was accused of shooting someone at a Dominican Republic New Years Eve celebration. The kind that people fire up into the air like lunatics.

That cant be stretched into a murder.

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Maybe this guy can get religion, preach every chance he gets, talk about his passion for the game of baseball whenever there's a camera in his face, hop around and do some ridiculous dance when he comes out of the dugout and be an awesome ballplayer.

Funny part is, a much higher power than us can forgive and forget if you have the humility to ask for it.

Thankfully that guy that preaches and does that ridiculous dance plays for the Ravens. Oh yeah, the 2012 Super Bowl champion Ravens.

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