ISU Gambling Megathread

Rabbuk

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Iowa Code says underage gambling is a fine of $645.
Iowa Code says the person ALLOWing an underage person to make illegal bets is a simple misdemeanor.

So Hunter should be fined $645 and his mom get a simple misdemeanor. Seems DCI blew this out of proportion.

So he may have impeded a criminal investigation, which is what he is being charged with. An intelligent response would have been to pay the fine and take whatever NCAA L was coming.
 

AllInForISU

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Iowa Code says underage gambling is a fine of $645.
Iowa Code says the person ALLOWing an underage person to make illegal bets is a simple misdemeanor.

So Hunter should be fined $645 and his mom get a simple misdemeanor. Seems DCI blew this out of proportion.


And the tampering is an aggravated misdemeanor, up to a year in jail. So if they lied about it and tried to cover it up, he could potentially go to jail
 

dosry5

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I am not condoning what Dekker's did but his attorney is correct, this is a matter for Iowa State and the NCAA. Under Iowa Code there is no law preventing him from placing the bets, the Iowa Code is specific to the gambling entity that they have to have controls in place to prevent such a thing from happening, but not the individual gambler themselves. I've posted the Iowa Code a few times in one of these threads.

Now the tampering with evidence is a no no, but can you really tamper with evidence of something that wasn't illegal?
Yes, you can. Assuming you mean tampering with records, not evidence, as I think the charge is.
 

1UNI2ISU

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Iowa Code says underage gambling is a fine of $645.
Iowa Code says the person ALLOWing an underage person to make illegal bets is a simple misdemeanor.

So Hunter should be fined $645 and his mom get a simple misdemeanor. Seems DCI blew this out of proportion.

They also didn't cooperate with the investigation and tried to destroy records. This is more than just the gambling, it appears.
 
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They also didn't cooperate with the investigation and tried to destroy records. This is more than just the gambling, it appears.

I understand that.

I think his Attorney is trying to make the argument that there was nothing there to investigate at a criminal level and because of that there is no way to tamper with the investigation.
 
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AllInForISU

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Iowa Code says underage gambling is a fine of $645.
Iowa Code says the person ALLOWing an underage person to make illegal bets is a simple misdemeanor.

So Hunter should be fined $645 and his mom get a simple misdemeanor. Seems DCI blew this out of proportion.


He had 297 bets under the age of 21. Wouldn’t, in theory, all of these be charged individually leading to a charge of $191,565 in fines? I would guess that would be possible.
 

dosry5

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He had 297 bets under the age of 21. Wouldn’t, in theory, all of these be charged individually leading to a charge of $191,565 in fines? I would guess that would be possible.
No. Could it happen? Yes. But that almost never happens. It serves no purpose
 

carvers4math

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Iowa Code says underage gambling is a fine of $645.
Iowa Code says the person ALLOWing an underage person to make illegal bets is a simple misdemeanor.

So Hunter should be fined $645 and his mom get a simple misdemeanor. Seems DCI blew this out of proportion.

Underage gambling, $645. Death threats to a meteorologist, $105. Priorities.