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Michigan WR Grant Perry reaches plea deal for East Lansing charges
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Grant Perry won’t have to wait until after the 2017 season starts to learn his fate.
The Michigan receiver was facing sexual assault charges for an alleged incident last October in East Lansing. Perry, however, avoided a sexual assault conviction.
According to the Lansing State Journal, Perry reached a plea deal that dropped the two counts of misdemeanor fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, as well as the alcohol charge. He did plead guilty to one felony count of resisting arrest from an officer, which has a maximum penalty of two years in prison.
Perry was accused of sexually assaulting a woman outside of an East Lansing bar back in October. When officers arrived on the scene, Perry admitted that he “tried to wriggle away” from them. The incident was instigated because Perry and his friends cut people in line.
The Lansing State Journal detailed the account, according to police records:
A 21-year-old Michigan State University student told police she had argued with Perry when he refused to move to the back of the line.
Even after his friends had complied with a bouncer’s request, the woman said Perry remained, and bragged that he goes to Michigan and that her school “sucks.”
She said Perry “started licking his lips and smiling and pushing his chest up against her chest,” before he groped her for three or four seconds.
The woman told police she “could feel him squeezing both her butt and her crotch.”
Those accusations were denied by Perry.
Perry was suspended from the team following the incident, but Jim Harbaugh reinstated him in the beginning of June. Harbaugh said that Perry would not be allowed to play in any games until his case was resolved. The case won’t be completely resolved until after Perry’s sentencing on Aug. 2.
No returning Michigan receiver had more catches or yards than Perry in 2016, despite the fact that he was suspended for a month.
Michigan announced that it will wait to decide Perry’s status until after his sentencing.
Connor O'Gara is the senior national columnist for Saturday Tradition. He's a member of the Football Writers Association of America. After spending his entire life living in B1G country, he moved to the South in 2015.