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There come the tears again, just to the edge of former Miami Dolphins running back Cecil Collins' eyes, so a smile turns them back while listing why life is so good. He has been a free man for 13 months after serving more than 13 years in prison following a burglary conviction.
He lives with his wife, Elena, whom he met and married while in prison. He has a good job with an electrical company. He even has high hopes this season for his beloved Dolphins, the team he scored touchdowns for so many years and chapters ago.
"I've been up, and I've been down, and I've been way, way down,'' Collins, 37, says, getting emotional here at the kitchen table in his Tamarac apartment. "But now I'm up for good. Life is great now. Life isn't hard like it used to be.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/...e-hyde-collins-0814-20140813,0,5645116.column Good article about former Dolphin.
 
I wish he would have grown up and not did the crime. I think he would have been a really good back for us.
 
An enormous talent with serious lapses in judgement. I was ecstatic when JJ brought him in and deeply disappointed when he was arrested. Hopefully his time in prison was constructive in his rehabilitation and he finds nothing but success in his future.
 
If you could have put Karim Abdul Jabbars head and heart on Cecil Collins you would have had an Emmett Smith type talent.
what a waste.
 
He had at least one arrest in college for burglary but I don't recall if he was convicted. I think he knew the woman whose apt he broke into but claimed he only wanted to watch her sleep.
 
I really couldn't care less about the happiness of a convicted felon. :idk:

It is what it is.
 
I still have his autograph on my dol-fan club membership card.
 
MadDog 88 said:
He had at least one arrest in college for burglary but I don't recall if he was convicted. I think he knew the woman whose apt he broke into but claimed he only wanted to watch her sleep.
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Which is way scarier than B&E, imo.

Collins has all the hallmarks of a sociopath. Superficial charm, an ability to lie quickly and easily, a penchant for sexual deviance. The last time I read in depth about him I came away thinking that eventually he would rape and murder someone. Perhaps just rape. Perhaps just murder. But I've read a fair amount about serial killers and some of the similarities were frightening.
 
13 years for burglary and Ray Rice just gets a 2 match suspension from the NFL and no conviction for beating his wife.
One punishment seems excessively harsh and the other excessively lenient.
 
spiketex said:
13 years for burglary and Ray Rice just gets a 2 match suspension from the NFL and no conviction for beating his wife.
One punishment seems excessively harsh and the other excessively lenient.
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He had twice entered womens dwellings illegally and got probabation broke that probabtion by failing a drug test . He then once again broke into another woman's house to supposedly watch her sleep. THis was not excessively too harsh in any way.
Who knows or even cares what his intensions were and who knows what would have happened next. Lets not compare that to a fight between Ray Rice and his wife that resulted in him getting into a pretrial intervention program for first time offenders.
The states attorney did not feel anything above probation was necessary, take that for what it is.

Cecil Collins I don't wish him well, he is a sick person that at some point may do much worse things than he has already done.
That he has found a woman stupid and desperate enough to marry him is quite screwed up.

Some excerpts about Cecil Collins
He was charged with two counts of burglary. The police said he forced open the rear bedroom window of a neighboring couple's apartment, entered the room and confronted them. The man, Ronald Nolte, chased Collins out of his apartment, and Collins dived out the window, fell on wet grass and ran away, the police said.

He has had other brushes with the law. Last year, Collins was charged twice with unauthorized entry at his apartment complex in Baton Rouge, La. One of the incidents involved a 17-year-old girl who accused Collins of exposing himself and rubbing against her. While he was at McNeese

State, he was charged with drug-related crimes and was jailed for 27 days for failing a court-ordered drug test.

In the Florida incident, the lawyer for the couple whose apartment was broken into, Jim Lewis, said Collins had been stalking Nolte's wife, Tina, after they met at a fitness center earlier this year. Lewis said Collins invited Tina Nolte out but she declined.


I don't wish him the best I wish him to not stay anywhere near me and is a good reason Im glad I have a gun.
 
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