Joe Randle Will Stand Trial For Apparently Threatening To Kill Someone

NFL season is almost here. Let’s check in on Joe Randle. Here’s the Wichita Eagle. Give me something good, Wichita Eagle.

Ex-Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle will stand trial for allegedly threatening to kill a jail deputy after he was denied a phone call in May, a Sedgwick County judge ruled Friday morning. “On its face it’s real clear what he said. He used the word ‘kill,’ ” District Judge Joe Kisner said, explaining his decision to bind Randle, 24, over for trial on one count of criminal threat, which is a felony.

Welp.

Randle also pleaded not guilty to eight other felony charges in addition to the one about killing the jail deputy. Here is Randle’s defense for the threat of murder according to the Eagle. 

Randle’s defense attorney, Steven Mank, on Thursday argued that if a person has “no way to commit the violence, it’s a hollow threat.” He had asked Kisner to throw out the case.

Kind of has a point there. My two-year-old can say he’s going to end my life all he wants, but as long as we hide the knives, what’s he really going to do about it? Right? On the other hand, the inability to take someone’s life because you’re in solitary confinement in a jail is probably not the greatest defense of all time!

The hearing was only about 9 min long. Randle, his attorney talked briefly before he was escorted out by deputies. pic.twitter.com/nIsJf7Uxi9

— Amy Renee Leiker (@AmyReneeLeiker) August 19, 2016

I don’t follow the post-college careers of players from other schools as closely as I do those from Oklahoma State (obviously), but the stretch of Joe Randle, Justin Blackmon, Perrish Cox, Brandon Sheperd (!!!) and to a lesser extent guys like Justin Gilbert has not been a great one for OSU (or Mike Gundy).

Hopefully this one has a happier ending than some of the others, but we are not trending towards a good place right now.