The lawyer representing former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore alleged in court filings that accusations against Moore were part of a \u201clitigation strategy designed to villainize Mr. Moore\u201d and argued that police procured Moore\u2019s arrest warrant by \u201cpresenting false statements fabricated by the complainant\u2019s civil attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moore\u2019s lawyer, Ellen Michaels, made those arguments as part of a request for an evidentiary hearing in an attempt to quash the arrest warrant and ultimately get criminal charges against her client thrown out.<\/p>\n
Moore and Michaels appeared in court Thursday<\/a> for a probable cause conference and asked a judge for more time to gather records. Moore faces charges of third-degree home invasion, a felony, and misdemeanor charges of stalking and breaking and entering related to an alleged incident that occurred Dec. 10, the day Moore was fired<\/a> for engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a female staff member.<\/p>\n The filing signals Moore\u2019s intent to fight the criminal charges by painting the case against him as an attempt by the staffer\u2019s employment lawyer, Heidi Sharp, to extract a large settlement from what Moore\u2019s lawyer called the \u201cdeep pockets of the University of Michigan.\u201d Sharp, reached Friday night, did not provide a comment to The Athletic.<\/p>\n Michaels argued that Moore\u2019s arrest warrant was issued based on misleading statements from Sharp, who \u201cassumed control of the narrative\u201d in statements to police.<\/p>\n Police and prosecutors allege that after Moore\u2019s firing, he drove to the staffer\u2019s apartment, entered through the unlocked front door, took butter knives and kitchen scissors from a drawer and made a series of threatening statements, including threats of suicide. Moore\u2019s lawyer contends that Sharp, who made the 911 call that alerted authorities to the incident, \u201ccharacterized a mental health crisis involving self-harm as an attack\u201d and painted Moore as \u201cdangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n