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Lynn Katoa
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A University of Colorado freshman linebacker who in March was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault at an off-campus party has waived his right to a preliminary hearing and is due to enter a plea in his case May 30.
Lynn Katoa, 18, has been suspended from the team and could be banned from campus for the summer and fall semesters by the university's Office of Judicial Affairs.
According to Boulder police, Katoa is suspected of forcing his way into an apartment building and punching two people — one while holding a rock in his hand.
During a court appearance Monday, which was scheduled to be a preliminary hearing, Katoa waived his right to that proceeding and asked to set a date to enter a plea.
Katoa's attorney also asked if his client can stop taking the periodic drug tests that were among the conditions of his bond release from the Boulder County Jail, arguing that drugs weren't involved in his arrest, he doesn't do them and the tests are expensive.
Posted by LJBUFFS on May 6, 2008 at 3:14 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Give the dude a second chance. There are much worst things that happen every weekend in Boulder. Do the right thing and let him back on the team, a semster suspension will only make things worse for him. If anyone should be in trouble it should the dude who tased Katoa's friend. I got your back Lynn.
Posted by LJBUFFS on May 6, 2008 at 4:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
...you have mandatory drug tests yet the city of boulder watched as 10,000 people openly smoked pot on 4/20/08? this doesn't make sense to me.
Posted by rodrigo on May 6, 2008 at 4:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Someone please drug test rswright. Katoa made a stupid, emotional mistake, something rs does at least twice a day on his posts here.
Posted by extrapoint on May 6, 2008 at 4:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I have taken the liberty of reducing rswright's 6 paragraph hallucinations to his basic themes.
1. he is guilty (as are all football players)
2. sell the flat screen TVs and use the money to buy the tennis players unrinal cakes.
(no thanks necessary rs)
Posted by Ralphie2 on May 6, 2008 at 7:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Katoa is a good kid. He made a mistake and will hopefully learn from it. He should certainly be given a second chance. Everyone makes a dumb decision or two--if not more--when they're young and most people don't have their mistakes splashed across the pages of the newspaper.
Posted by tallisall on May 7, 2008 at 7:12 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Where's the side profile shot?
Posted by rodrigo on May 7, 2008 at 7:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)
jeez, tall... that's old, bud. You've used it about six times now. Keep your cracks fresh or don't bother.
Posted by tallisall on May 7, 2008 at 7:46 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Just wondered. I think it would show his best side.
Posted by BuffJohn on May 7, 2008 at 3:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Says the proud Husker Fan....home of Lawrence Phillips!!
Posted by JAWS on May 8, 2008 at 12:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Tall -where was YOUR side, front, 3D, real-life, profile at the spring game?????? I, along with nearly all the ACTUAL Buff faithful, offered to buy you a beer if you would have just identified yourself - bit**??? Were you too busy in Nebraska? You are a joke!!!! Post your pic - I'll gladly post mine, pics of me at the games during the glory years, as well as the 'scandal' years... I don't miss the games... I wish Katoa could met you in a dark alley and hear you ask the same questions without you hiding behind your 'screen name' talk about a whoopin...
Posted by tallisall on May 8, 2008 at 7:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
What's with all the violence?
I think Katoa is staying out of trouble these days.
Those mandatory anger management classes are working wonders.
Posted by hinfinityl on May 8, 2008 at 10:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Tallisall, I don't normally respond to others posts, but after reading your filth for the last few years I just can't take it any more...
You, sir, are the lowest of the low, the dirtiest of the dirty. While I'm sure you're already at the bottom rung of life's ladder, here's wishing you stay there and continue to fall even further.
Quit wasting your life trying to bring others down and try to start acting like a MAN. It's people like you that are driving this nation into the gutter, and it's also people like you that will be first in line when the reckoning comes.
Good luck to you there...
Posted by rodrigo on May 8, 2008 at 7:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Ouch, tall. That was a couple tall orders of Katoa-size smackdown.
Don't know the man but judging from the considered, measured response of his posts, it takes something to get hinfi that worked up...
Guess I'm your only friend around these parts.
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