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Ex-Cowboys QB Tiger faces boot camp
Posted: Tuesday April 11, 2000 02:56 PM
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) -- Former Oklahoma State quarterback B.J. Tiger is awaiting transfer to a state-run "boot camp," and a prosecutor says he hopes prison time will follow. Payne County Associate District Judge Robert Murphy Jr. ordered Tiger to serve four months in the Department of Corrections' Regimented Inmate Discipline. After the camp, Tiger will return to court Aug. 4 with a performance evaluation by the department. Tiger pleaded guilty Friday to a felony charge of marijuana possession and knowingly concealing stolen property. He also admitted violating probation on two earlier property theft felony convictions. Tiger, 21, entered a "blind plea" to the marijuana and stolen property counts, District Attorney Robert Hudson said. The blind plea meant Tiger had no agreement with Hudson for any sentence. Hudson said Monday he made it clear at Friday's hearing that he would ask that Tiger receive a three-year prison sentence after he completes the boot camp. "He's had more than his fair shot at second chances," Hudson said. Hudson said he would ask Murphy to assess a three-year prison term for this year's convictions as well as the 1997 and 1998 convictions. "That would make him a three-time convicted felon," Hudson said. Tiger falls within the youthful offender law, for ages 18-22, which requires judges to impose boot camp or similar disciplinary acts before sentencing. Tiger was arrested Jan. 24 by campus police who found several bags of marijuana in his campus apartment and more than 140 compact discs, including three reported stolen by another OSU student, according to campus police affidavits. At the time he was arrested, Tiger was on two-year deferred sentences on a 1997 charge of shoplifting videotapes, compact discs, batteries and film from the Stillwater Wal-Mart, and a 1998 charge of shoplifting a pistol from a Stillwater pawnshop.
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