In , he was sentenced to 15 years in a Florida prison on burglary charges. Collins' ghost still lingered around the program in when Jackson was cut loose from Tennessee. McNeese head coach Matt Viator was an old friend of Guidry's and if he was hesitant about taking Janzen in, there was also a strong pull to buck tradition. Jackson was family, the son of Cowboy royalty, a kid who almost literally was born and raised around the program.
They wanted to help him. All the coaches had known Janzen essentially his whole life. Four days after his dismissal, Jackson enrolled at McNeese. Right away, McNeese made Jackson off-limits to reporters for the entire season. After coming into his own as a sophomore in the SEC, he was the most talented player in the Southland Conference as a junior and it was easy to envision him dominating. But he began the year on the bench, only cracking the starting lineup when players ahead of him on the depth chart got injured.
Jackson was told in no uncertain terms that school was to be prioritized as much as football, yet he stopped attending classes and did not even receive a varsity letter for the season. And then, three years after he stunned the town on National Signing Day, Jackson did it again and turned pro. It turned out to be every bit as bad of an idea as it seemed.
Jackson's talent was undeniable, but his draft stock was weighed down by the myriad off-field issues and now, underwhelming junior film. Once discussed as an early-round certainty, he went unselected in the NFL Draft.
His football career never recovered. He latched on to the Giants as an undrafted free agent but was waived immediately after being suspended four games by the NFL for undisclosed reasons. With no teams biting, Jackson had a choice to make about where to go next.
Returning to Lake Charles would mean returning home for a second time as a disappointment, to a place where everyone knew exactly how much his star was dimmed by his failings. Instead, he headed west to Los Angeles, and to his mother, Tesra. Soon after Jackson arrived, he settled into a rhythm of shuttling between two residencies. The first was a great uncle's house in Los Angeles.
The second was Tesra's apartment in Santa Monica, which she shared with her boyfriend, year-old Frank Herrera. Janzen had only been in town for a few weeks when, according to testimony from Tesra Jackson, Herrera was scheduled to drop Janzen off at his great-uncle's house on September 11, But Herrera did not return home that night or check in.
Nor did he the next day. Or the day after that. Finally, on September 14, Tesra Jackson drove to her uncle's house and discovered Herrera's car nearby. She peered into the window and saw flies buzzing around. There was a foul smell coming from inside the car. Police found Frank Herrera's body inside the car, wrapped in a blanket.
He was strangled to death using a lamp cord that was still wrapped around his neck. Investigators reviewed security footage from Jackson and Herrera's building and saw video of a man resembling Janzen Jackson exiting an elevator dragging a large, bulky object. Two days after Herrera's body was discovered, on September 16, , Janzen Jackson was arrested and charged with murder. Since then, Jackson's life has become a portrait of the legal system at its most dawdling.
On no fewer than 23 occasions, attorneys involved have gone in front of a judge to file motions and prepare for trial. Five different judges have heard arguments. Jackson himself has had four different defense attorneys, the most notable of which being Christopher Darden, who is famous for prosecuting the OJ Simpson murder trial.
On August 1, Darden recused himself for a conflict of interest, and his case was turned over to the public defender's office. In September, the former defensive back allegedly strangled year-old Frank Herrera, who was the boyfriend of Jackson's mother at the time. Prosecutors told the court Jackson left Herrera's body in a car near his great-uncle's house and surveillance video shows him dragging a large bundle out of the apartment building the two were living in at the time.
Jackson told police he was the person in the video, according to the Register, but said the bag was a part of his workout routine. Jackson's father is a highly regarded former high school coach in the state of Louisiana and currently serves as the defensive coordinator at McNeese State.
Widely considered one of college football's top prospects, Oregon edge rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux exited in the first half of the Ducks' season-opening win over Fresno State with a lower left leg injury.
Known for graciousness, class and affability, Bobby Bowden transformed Florida State from downtrodden independent to perennial national title contender. The University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma, just a day after notifying the Big 12 that they do not intend to renew their grants of media rights beyond a current contract that runs through , have now formally applied for SEC membership in The University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma jointly announced Monday that they've notified the Big 12 Conference of their intention not to renew grants of media rights to the league following the current contract, which expires in Alabama and Ohio State tied for the most players from one school selected in the NFL Draft with 10 each, while the SEC -- as usual -- led all conferences with 65 selections.
Herrera using three separate ligatures," the judge said, adding that Jackson dragged Herrera's body to the victim's car and drove it to South Los Angeles, leaving the remains inside to decompose. Shortly before being sentenced, Jackson said, "I am deeply sorry for what has happened It was a tragedy that someone lost his life.
Jackson -- who played college football for the University of Tennessee and McNeese State University before going on to play for the Toronto Argonauts -- maintained that the killing happened in self-defense.
Deputy District Attorney Richard Quinones told the judge, "This was, in the People's opinion, not a voluntary manslaughter, although that's what he was ultimately found guilty of. The prosecution felt that the "only appropriate sentence" for Jackson was the maximum year sentence, Quinones said.
The victim's mother, Rosa Melgar, told the judge that she has been sentenced to a life remembering "what he the defendant did to my son. The victim's sister-in-law, Delilah Herrera, called for the judge to impose the maximum punishment on Jackson, saying that there have to be consequences for his actions. The defendant's mother, who had been involved in a seven-year relationship with Herrera, called it a "terrible, unfortunate tragedy that took place.
Deputy Public Defender Daryne Nicole asked the judge to sentence Jackson to probation, arguing that it was an unusual case involving someone who had no prior criminal record.
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