Bittersweet tribute held for Max Gilpin
Max Gilpin didn't live to see his 16th birthday, but family and friends came together Sunday to mark the occasion with a bittersweet tribute and party for the Pleasure Ridge Park football player.
The birthday gathering at Sun Valley Park was also the public debut of The Max Gilpin Beat the Heat Foundation. Its goal is to educate youths and others about the dangers of heat-related illness, which claimed the Louisville teen's life last year.
Prosecutors: JCPS inquiry into Gilpin ' self-serving'
Judge asked to exclude report
Jefferson County prosecutors want a school district report on the death last year of Pleasure Ridge Park football player Max Gilpin excluded from ex-coach Jason Stinson's trial because it selectively used information to reach a "self-serving and wholly inaccurate conclusion."
Arguing that the Jefferson County Public Schools investigation is "factually and logically unsound," the commonwealth's attorney's office is asking a circuit judge to keep the report out of Stinson's Aug. 31 trial.
And this from C-J:
Attorneys claim prosecutors want to
exclude evidence that 'exonerates' Stinson
Attorneys for former Pleasure Ridge Park football coach Jason Stinson say the real reason prosecutors want to exclude a school district report into the death of football player Max Gilpin is because it "exonerates" the coach.
In a motion filed Wednesday, defense attorneys Alex Dathorne and Brian Butler are seeking to include the report in Stinson's Aug. 31 trial for reckless homicide — and they suggest that prosecutors should want the same.
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The Louisville school district has erred big time. The first way they erred is in allowing such coaches to educate kids. Second, they erred in fighting the lawsuit.
Max Gilpin's death was indeed preventable. An irony in American education is the fact that parents usually expect and condone harsh tactics by teachers (coaches) of athletics. It is a shame it took Gilpin's death, and the resulting litigation, to force the Louisville schools to consider reform.
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