Petrino: Epps won’t rejoin team

Suspended receiver Dezmon Epps “will not be joining the team,” Idaho coach Paul Petrino said on a Sun Belt Conference call Monday. The Whitman County prosecutor’s office declined to file charges Friday against Epps, because “we could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt,” prosecutor Merritt Decker said. Pullman Police forwarded a fourth-degree assault charge against Epps to the Whitman County prosecutor’s office last Tuesday after it was alleged the 22-year-old slapped or punched his girlfriend at Stubblefields bar in Pullman the morning of Oct. 25. “When things happened with Dezmon early in the year he had some very strict restrictions on what he could do and couldn’t do,” Petrino said Monday. “One of those things that we talked about he was not able to do was go out. He was out that night, so as of right now he will not be joining the team”/Michael-Shawn Dugar, Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here.

Question: Should Epps be given another chance, now that the Whitman County prosecutor’s office has declined to file charges against him in a fourth-degree assault incident involving his girlfriend?