{"id":1580209,"date":"2024-05-08T10:16:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1580209"},"modified":"2024-05-08T10:16:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:16:21","slug":"iowa-student-athletes-involved-in-sports-betting-probe-have-filed-a-federal-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/iowa-student-athletes-involved-in-sports-betting-probe-have-filed-a-federal-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa student-athletes involved in sports betting probe have filed a federal lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Iowa, 26 former and current athletes were involved in illegal sports gambling activity. It goes directly against the NCAA\u2019s policy that prohibits student-athletes from betting on sports the NCAA sponsors at any level. Last Friday, the student-athletes involved in the sports-betting probe filed a federal lawsuit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lawsuit alleges that state criminal investigators violated their constitutional rights. They illegally used geo-tracking software to monitor activity on the student athletes\u2019 cell phones. As a result, some of these student-athletes received criminal charges and several lost NCAA eligibility. A 47-page lawsuit was filed to the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It states that criminal investigators used a third-party company called GeoComply to find these athletes. They failed to have a legal search warrant and that\u2019s why they are proceeding with a civil lawsuit.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Who are the student-athletes who had their rights violated by Iowa criminal investigators? <\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the initial illegal search and seizure, ex-Iowa State football players Eyioma Uwazurike and Isaiah Lee were targeted with GeoComply. That led to a \u201cwarrantless\u201d search that should have never happened. In March, these cases were dismissed because criminal investigators failed to have a legal search warrant.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, ex-Iowa State football player Jiherl Brock and Iowa State wrestler Paniro Johnson were involved in the illegal search. All four of those student-athletes had their cases dismissed. Other plaintiffs in the case included ex-Iowa State QB Hunter Dekkers and University of Iowa football player Noah Shannon. According to reports from ESPN, 16 of them were charged and 12 pleaded guilty to underage gambling.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Attorneys claim that these student-athletes lives were altered and disrupted<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plaintiffs, in this case, are reportedly seeking, Actual, compensatory, consequential, and all other allowable damages against defendants in an amount yet to be determined. Additionally, they want compensation for their constitutional rights being broken. They\u2019re claiming pain, suffering, mental anguish, and humiliation. Attorneys in this case had this comment to ESPN reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lives of these young men have been disrupted and altered in way[s] still yet to be fully seen,\u201d said Matt Boles, Adam Witosky, and Van Plumb, \u201cIt is our hope that through the civil action we can help these young men put their lives back on track and gain a measure of justice for the violation of their rights.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other 10 plaintiffs in this case were not charged criminally. However, the investigation resulted in a loss of playing time. Additionally, there was the threat of the NCAA or NFL sanctioning or damaging their careers. Athletes lost some or all of their NCAA eligibility after the case was dismissed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Iowa, 26 former and current athletes were involved in illegal sports gambling activity. It goes directly against the NCAA\u2019s policy that prohibits student-athletes from betting on sports the NCAA sponsors at any level. Last Friday, the student-athletes involved in the sports-betting probe filed a federal lawsuit.\u00a0 The lawsuit alleges that state criminal investigators violated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":1580210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[447316],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Iowa student-athletes had their constitutional rights violated<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iowa student-athletes had their constitutional rights violated by state criminal investigators according to attorneys.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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