Former Michigan football player Rondell Biggs was arrested last summer after Michigan state troopers discovered ten tablets of stanozolol in his car during a traffic stop. State prosecutors chose to prosecute him for felony steroid possession based on the 10 steroid tablets. But the jury acquitted Biggs after deliberating only 15 minutes (”Former Michigan player Rondell Biggs cleared on steroids charge,” December 16).

A Washtenaw County Circuit Court jury deliberated about 15 minutes before finding Biggs not guilty, defense attorney Marc Lakin said.

“It’s good that he cleared his name,” Lakin said. “He’s always been a clean athlete, and he didn’t want his reputation tarnished.” [...]

According to Lakin, Biggs was told by the person who gave him the steroids that they were “weight-loss pills.”

“The jury definitely felt that there was not enough evidence to convince them that he knowingly possessed a steroid,” Lakin said.

Fortunately for Biggs, the jury saw the steroid charge as trivial and accepted the defense argument that Biggs unknowingly possessed and used steroids.