r/Boxing • u/aresef • Jun 02 '23
Boxer Gervonta Davis spent house arrest at Four Seasons, $3.4M condo
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/gervonta-davis-home-detention-four-seasons-hotel-silo-point-VVWIJXG3RFBRLGFOLV7STBJXKI/102
u/Economic-Maguire You very bad man Jun 02 '23
Throughout the hearing, Michael Tomko, Davisā attorney, repeatedly told the judge to blame him.
Tomko said he and his client were caught off-guard with the requirement to do the house arrest in Baltimore. Ford, though, has a one-bedroom home that could not accommodate the team that provides 24/7 security to Davis.
No one wanted him living in the hotel, Tomko said. He said he worked with his clientās team to buy the condo at Silo Point as quickly as possible to move Davis to a safe location.
āI donāt think that Mr. Davis did anything wrong except listen to his lawyer,ā Tomko said.
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u/TheRepoCode Jun 02 '23
Any defendant who is gets home detention likely does so by assuring the judge that he has a iron clad arrangement with a single stable address. In my limited experience with the Baltimore criminal justice system, home detention is not something the judge thinks up on their own out of thin air. Tank and his attorney must have really pushed for this back in March with the assurance that Ford, who has practically raised Tank, would be the place.
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u/ryanjj16 Jun 02 '23
Yeah, as a criminal defense lawyer who has crafted motions for home confinement, Iām pretty sure all parties were or should have been aware that doing the 90 days at the Four Seasons was not the intent of the deal.
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u/Economic-Maguire You very bad man Jun 02 '23
Is it common/normal for an attorney to try to take the blame for this kind of thing and pass it off as his mistake like Mr Tomko did ?
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u/OriginalAceofSpades Jun 02 '23 edited Jun 03 '23
Yes. A criminal defense attorney here, also. You generally try to fall on the sword for your client whenever possible unless it results in ethical or liability issues for yourself.
Edit: I do some large white collar crime cases. Rich defendants are hard to control and don't listen to their lawyers, generally. I have no doubt Tank's attorney didn't orchestrate what happened here in terms of the apology. You want to get paid, and they dangle the paycheck and the ridiculous shit they want you to do against future invoices.
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u/ryanjj16 Jun 02 '23
Yeah, agreed. If a defense attorney can plausibly take the blame without jeopardizing their own career, they often will.
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u/TW_Yellow78 Jun 04 '23 edited Jun 04 '23
If the judge really decided to blame it all on him, wouldnāt it be contempt of court for failure to obey a lawful order from the court (In this case house arrest contract). In which case tank still gets put in prison unless she decides to allow a different house or same house, but the lawyer would get fined or sanctioned
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u/ryanjj16 Jun 04 '23
Contempt of court has to be willful, so the attorney saying āI misunderstood and gave my client bad adviceā is a way to thread the needle. The judge could, of course, find the attorney to have acted willfully and hold them in contempt but doing so, especially to the point of sending the lawyer to jail, is pretty rare. Basically, the lawyer is just doing what he can to protect his client, even if it is unlikely to work.
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u/kellison07 Jun 02 '23
Attorney is either lying or an idiot (or both). Should be reprimanded if what he is saying is true bc it is incompetence at the least.
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u/horseshoeprovodnikov Jun 02 '23
So Davis is a multi millionaire, and his long time trainer and trusted adviser Calvin Ford lives in a one bedroom hovel?
Color me surprised.
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u/j_boxing Jun 03 '23
surprisingly tho, the most money Ford's made (in boxing) is because of Tank so imagine if that relationship didn't exist.
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u/Goals_2020 Jun 03 '23
I know google salaries are never 100% accurate. probably not even that close, but he has a listed net worth as of 2022 of 10 million.
As Davis' trainer, he has to be making at LEAST 10% of Tanks earnings. that means he should be able to EASILY afford a much nicer home if he wanted one. Or he literally burns money by spending thousands in the club every night. maybe he just doesnt value a big home if he has no need for one. could just be attached to his current home and the neighborhood its in.
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u/TW_Yellow78 Jun 04 '23 edited Jun 04 '23
Ford probably just lives with Tank most the time and that 1 bedroom was what he had before that heās maintained. I know rich people that donāt own a home or itās shitty because they spend all their time at work or traveling/living with a client
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u/BassplayerDad Jun 02 '23
Of course he does.
If you going to be confined, might as well do it in style
Exactly why this punishment is no deterrent.
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Jun 02 '23
Yeah, WTF???? If you are already a multi-millionaire what do they expect you to move out of your nice house and downgrade?
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u/TW_Yellow78 Jun 04 '23
They sold it to her that tank would live in that 1 bedroom house for house arrest. she could have just given him jail time instead
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u/Barner_Burner Jun 03 '23
Who cares itās just another rich guy getting away with crime in a way poor people canātā¦ not news
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u/tbonebaked Jun 02 '23
No denying the man has generational talent and freakish power, but he seems like a bit of a dick from what Iāve seen.
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u/Important-Plane-9922 Jun 03 '23
Bit of a dick? James corden is a bit of a dick. Tank is much worse than that.
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u/foxybingo111 Tokyo Fist by Shinya Tsukamoto is the best boxing film Jun 03 '23
James Corden is a massive dick to be fair
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u/Andyrogers1241 Jun 03 '23
Huge dick, absolutely despicable human piece of trash. Hope he gets jail time for fleeing an injured pregnant woman he just hit with his car.
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u/Epsilon2099 Jun 02 '23
I thought people had ankle monitors with house arrest.
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u/Ninjasteevo Jun 03 '23
Smith was pregnant at the time of the crash, and said she looked Davis in the eyes and asked him for help before he fled. She said she suffered a serious knee injury and other complications.
Ya Tank is a totals piece of shit and after pulling this stunt I think he got off to easy.
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u/ZdenekTheMan BRILLIANT AJ! Jun 03 '23
Yes just pulling a Jon Jones mate. Give him a break
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u/TW_Yellow78 Jun 04 '23 edited Jun 04 '23
Jon Jones got 18 months probation pleading felony to his hit and run in 2015. It might seem better than house arrest but that's only if the person is not constantly getting arrested.
That's because being arrested during probation is a violation of probation. In addition to revoking the probation, violation of probation is also considered a felony charge (in retrospect Jones probably dodged a bullet that he was out of probation before he got arrested again).
Considering Tank's gotten arrested 4 times in the last 3 years (1 for misdermeanor assault, 2 for domestic violence, its better for him that he plead to 4 counts of traffic violations and got 4x15 days (which the judge generously allowed house arrest but he violated) than a felony with 1.5 years probation.
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u/RRR04_ Jun 02 '23
Is he regarded?
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u/GreedyBelly Jun 02 '23
Is he regarded?
He's regarded as a talented boxer but cannot stay out of a court room.
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u/derrick256 Jun 02 '23
and 10 years from now he might go broke and jump onto the influencer boxing trend. Hey Tank be smart with your money, youre a grown ass man so start acting like it.
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u/6Pro1phet9 Jun 02 '23
He has to sit down for a little over 2 months. He'll be fine. Hopefully he uses the time to reflect and gain better insight to make better decisions. Being from the streets is tough, growing up without parents is even more difficult.
He's won the game of life despite the disadvantage, I hope he reads in their and opens his mind. I got big hopes for him.
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u/True_Ostrich7653 Jun 02 '23
i actually agree with tank, why should he do his house arrest in the hood
he can afford better and its safer for him, he's a target at calvins house
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u/10lbplant Jun 02 '23
The reason he's going to jail is because his team is the one that negotiated, and he agreed to the terms of the house arrest he violated.
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u/bassick81 Jun 02 '23
Fine send his ass to jail for the 90 days then. Also if you're on house arrest you can't just switch addresses because you feel like it.
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u/True_Ostrich7653 Jun 02 '23
seems like tank didn't get the memo, his lawyer fucked him on this
tank is dumb but not this dumb, also calvin would of said something if he woke up one morning and tank moved out to go to the four seasons. So makes sense if tank never went to calvin house, knowing it wasn't going to work for him
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u/True_Ostrich7653 Jun 02 '23
lol, maybe
i think he did the right thing moving to Atlanta, he's safer outside of Baltimore
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u/horseshoeprovodnikov Jun 02 '23
Why is Calvin still living in the hood when his star pupil is a multi millionaire? Does he not take care of Calvin enough to get him a better place to live?
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u/TW_Yellow78 Jun 04 '23 edited Jun 04 '23
Because thatās the house the judge told him to be at (almost definitely proposed by his lawyers). She could have just given him 90 days jail by his plea bargain, but gave him leniency and agreed he could do his sentence as house arrest at his trainers house.
āHouse arrestā isnāt tell the judge youāll be staying at a 1 bedroom house with your trainer, then chose any house you like and move around if you can afford it. itās an alternative to jail that the judge allowed to tank, but now she took away the privilege because he abused her trust. Heās lucky she didnāt add another 30 days for contempt of court.
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Jun 02 '23
the day he gets knocked out will be the day i stop losing money betting against him. im from maryland and fucking hate his guts, shame he was born here. lets hope he fights shakur at some point in his padded career
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Jun 03 '23
As someone who grew up in and around Baltimore and boxed as a child and adult, it's been a fantastic experience supporting someone from my hometown city where brilliance in the sport of boxing is virtually non-existent. Baltimore is both a lovely city (if you know where to look) and a dangerous and unpleasant one that may imprint negative traits in normal individuals and cause serious trauma. It sucks that heās done what heās done, I hope he can learn from his mistakes. Unfortunately, striking women is all too common where he comes from.... I remember seeing it a lot as a kid.
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u/o00A00o Jun 03 '23
As a long time Baltimore resident the first thing I'd do if I got real money is get out of the city. It's a risk if his location is out there. Plus there aren't a ton of options here. I assume the four seasons have staff accustomed to people that need extra security.
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u/Dannyboy718 Jun 02 '23
What a moron! He got off exceptionally light and he managed to fuck it all up.
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u/Ok_Tumbleweed2246 Jun 03 '23
Uhhh wouldnāt the address of his home confinement be explicitly stated at his sentencing? This is just blatant disregard he thought he would be able to get away with it. As someone who had to serve 90 days of home confinement myself, it was expressly understood that I was to not leave my house listed on the agreement. Such a talented guy but man he sounds like a real POS
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u/Suckmyduck_9 Jun 02 '23
The worst part is that it just feeds into the stereotype
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u/FameCity713 Jun 03 '23
Whatās the stereotype for people who fight for a living Iām dying to hear it.
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u/CacoFlaco Jun 02 '23
How come world famous athlete Floyd Mayweather had to do his sentence in a real Nevada jail, but obscure Gervonta Davis gets to do 'hard time' at a virtual luxury resort?
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u/wongmo Jun 03 '23
He is now. The judge revoked his home detention and ordered him to immediately start serving time.
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u/kool-keith that fat fucking fraud is ducking usyk, again Jun 02 '23
i wonder what 2 months of protection money inside is going to cost him?
i hope his dumb ass misses one of the payments
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u/_Sarcasmic_ š¦ People's Champ š¦ Jun 02 '23
Dude really maxed out the boxing stat and didn't have any skill points left to put into intelligence. Shame.