DA's Office Declines to Go After Tom Cable: Several Problems Existed

After two and a half months, Tom Cable can breath a little easier now.

The Napa District Attorney elected to not pursue felony assault charges against Tom Cable, citing several key items that had come to light since the August 5th incident.

For one, was the timing involved in such a case. For the police to properly do their job, the party seeking legal action should have cooperated completely with the police department. Randy Hanson, as it was noted went to a hospital for treatment and was hesitant to help the police department.

Part of this seems to play to the belief that he tried to blackmail the Raiders into giving him his old job back...when this fell through, then he became very "helpful" with the Napa police department.

Second, was the widely circulated interview he gave with Michael Silver of Yahoo Sports. Within this interview he gave a larger story with more details, noting coaches and actions that took place. The problem came to light though, that this wasn't the exact same story that he had told the Police, once he started to cooperate with the authorities.

Once it was out in the media and the inconsistent facts couldn't be fixed, the DA had no choice but to drop this case, simply because he didn't want to waste the people's time.

A nice transcript of this entire case can be found, from David White's online column:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/raiders/detail?blogid=11&entry_id=50146