FRISCO, Texas – There are some things right now that you can’t kick out, for the most part, when you live in the United States: paying taxes and jury duty.
The extreme process is something that 2023 Dallas Cowboys first-team All-Pro kicker Brandon Aubrey encountered the fragile way: He ended up on the jury for a domestic violence case in Tarrant Nation for eight days, from December 22 to 30. October. Aubrey and the jury found defendant Daniel Rincones responsible for one of his two assault charges, resulting in his indictment and sentence of 65 years in prison, in step with The Fortress Utility-Megastar Telegram.
It’s natural to be surprised, please see: “How the hell did a Cowboys All-Pro end up as an in-season judge while living in the football-crazed state of Texas?” Aubrey explained the whole thing in an interview with the Dallas Society Family Workers group on Thursday.
“I turned him down, and when I called to back out a second time, they wouldn’t let him and he ran away until it was too late,” Aubrey said. It was certainly an ‘oh shit’ era. I have a prosecutor [district attorney] sister-in-law, and she said, “You will never be chosen with the situation determined by your society.” I revealed that I had a sister-in-law who was once in the DA’s administrative center in Dallas and that my brother is a lawyer. So, they more or less told me that they wouldn’t pick me, so I just sat there and didn’t say much. I was certainly surprised when he [the judge] He chose me.”
The case that Aubrey helped preside over was not very easy to handle: Rincones was not found responsible for assault and strangulation, but he was once found responsible for one of his assault charges. Since he was also found responsible for a frustrated sexual attack in February 2019, his sentence was longer as a repeat offender. The defendant’s crimes were committed against a member of his family, according to court records.
“Listening to the story is eye-opening, long, frustrating and depressing,” Aubrey said. “The story was sad. I don’t really want to go into all the details of the story, but it was very depressing and it went on longer than anyone expected, so I’m glad it’s over.”
Aubrey was not ready to hide his identity during the jury selection process and because he did not speak much during the process, he ended up selected for the jury panel.
“Yes, the judge announced who I was during the selection process,” Aubrey stated. “They called people by their name, but they asked about any type of conflict, and I raised my hand and said, ‘I have conflicts,’ but he told me he would come back to me. He called me by my name,” she said. , ‘Brandon, we’ll get back to you.'”
In the future, the trial was again given to Aubrey, he was eliminated, and since he did not push to be voted out of the selection process, he was selected.
“Before I could say anything with my hand up, he just said, ‘Oh, you won’t have any conflict. We won’t see each other over the weekend,’ and walked away,” Aubrey said. “I could have been more assertive and at that point everyone knows who I am, and I don’t want to sound like I think I’m better than anyone or that I’m above the job, so [I] He sat silently and said nothing, which was probably a mistake. At that moment I thought he wouldn’t choose me.”
The ordeal began during Dallas’ Day 7 break, fortunately for Aubrey, and affected only his preparation for one sport, the Cowboys’ 30-24 Day 8 loss on “Sunday Night Football” against the San Francisco 49ers. He made his three overly difficult things and a 29-yard farmland feature, his most useful goal of the game.
“It was nine to five in downtown Fort Worth at the courthouse,” Aubrey said. “Get on the highway and run here. [to The Star in Frisco]. It takes approximately an hour and a half to arrive. [in rush hour]. So he puts me here around 6:45, 7:00 [p.m.]and hurry to prepare. I wanted to go inside [practice field]but we have a high school game [using it]”.
When Aubrey was in the process of struggling to mount the transition out of from device construction engineer at GM Monetary in Dallas to being a qualified kickerHis schedule looked like a lot of love that made him on top until the 8th this time.
“About the [outdoor] field fighting the sunset, it reminded me a lot of my schedule as a software engineer when I worked from 7am to 3pm, and then I would run to this area, a local field not far away, and try to fight the sunset too. It’s something I’ve done before.”
Probably the reason why Aubrey is considered one of the best kickers in the NFL in recent times is because he honed his football kicking skills with committed awareness. The second-year kicker is on pace to hang compared to any other Pro Bowl-caliber year in 2024, then led the NFL with 36 ground goals in 2023. Aubrey has drilled 18 of his 20 ground work attempts of cultivation this season. , and his 18 marks tie for fourth in the league. His nine farmland goals from at least 50 yards are second-most in the NFL, and no one has had more farmland goals from fifty or more yards since Aubrey (19 farmland goals from more than 50 yards). yards since 2023) entered the NFL.
“It’s hard to see when you’re kicking in the dark. You can’t really see where you’re kicking, and so [holder and punter] bryan [Anger] “Particularly trying to catch shots, he had a hard time tracking the ball and getting the point right at first,” Aubrey said. “It makes my job harder, especially when I can’t see where he put the ball.” very good. So, it was much more difficult, but [I] “I really just wanted to move my leg and keep my body fresh for game day.”
Cowboys special teams coordinator John “Bones” Fassel didn’t mind the tight schedule required to work with his famous student. The only thing I would have changed about how it all played out is that I hoped Aubrey would have been in place to clear a check kick and then the hard paints that the group’s operation put up during the event due to the altered schedule.
“We finished our work on Wednesday and Thursday,” Fassel said Monday. “Doing what we had to do and a lot of respect for him knowing what he had to do. So the kicker who missed meetings and practice, we can fix that. He just needed to take a swing, and he made it. I just thought he “Destiny would have to tie or win the game, and we could point to the work he did on his own as a factor, but it didn’t work out that way. I’m proud to have handled it that week.”
