8B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2006
Plugging and tugging away
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Culpepper cleared of charges
BY DOUG GLASS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AC Milan midfielder Massimo Ambrosini, left, and Lyon midfielder Florent Malouda challenge for the ball during their Champions League quarter-finals, second leg, soccer match on Tuesday at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy. AC Milan won 3-1 and advances to the semifinals.
MINNEAPOLIS — Quarterback Daunte Culpepper was cleared Tuesday of misdemeanor charges stemming from a boat-party scandal.
A judge ruled there wasn't probable cause to determine a crime was committed by Culpepper, one of four Minnesota Vikings accused of misdemeanor lewd conduct during the cruise last fall on a suburban lake. Culpepper has since been traded to the Miami Dolphins.
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Hennepin County Judge Kevin Burke denied a motion to dismiss charges against running
back Moe Williams. His trial is scheduled for April 18.
the other two players charged, cornerback Fred Smoot and tackle Bryant McKinnie, weren't part of Tuesday's ruling. Their next hearings are Thursday.
Culpepper's attorney, Earl Gray, said, "I'm happy about it. I'm sure Culpepper is, and his family. It vindicates him from being involved in any sexual misconduct on the boat."
The quarterback didn't immediately respond to an e-mail.
Williams' attorney, Joe Friedberg, was disappointed with the judge's decision.
"I disagree with him, but
that's what makes horse racing."
Friedberg said.
Culpepper and Williams had denied any improper conduct in a hearing before Burke last month. Culpepper, who was accused of touching a dancer's buttocks, testified that he spent the cruise on Lake Minnetonka playing a dice game in the back of a boat and rejected offers from several women.
williams, accused of touching a dancer's breast, testified that a woman danced near him but he never touched her.
In explaining his ruling, Burke wrote Culpepper's version of events would clear him if true.
Jayhawk Bookstore AT THE TOP OF THE HILL
KU HALL CENTER The Hall Center Humanities Lecture Series 2005-2006 This event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
Allan Cigler
Chancellors Club Teaching Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas; author of Perspectives on Terrorism: How 9/11 Changed U.S. Politics
"The New Electoral Landscape: Two Political Churches and an Unbelieving Mass Electorate"
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 5
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union