{"id":508955,"date":"2026-03-07T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508955\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:21:08","slug":"former-michigan-football-coach-sherrone-moore-pleads-no-contest-to-2-misdemeanors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508955\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore pleads no contest to 2 misdemeanors"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Former Michigan football<\/a> coach Sherrone Moore<\/a> pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors Friday in a deal to resolve a felony criminal case<\/a> that arose immediately after he was fired for having an inappropriate relationship<\/a> with his executive assistant.<\/p>\n

The deal was struck on the same day a judge planned to hear a challenge<\/a> to Moore\u2019s arrest in December on three charges, including felony home invasion. Those charges were dropped in exchange for Moore pleading no contest to trespassing and malicious use of a telecom device in a relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings have changed,\u201d Judge J. Cedric Simpson said.<\/p>\n

Moore had confronted the woman with whom he had been having an affair and blamed her for his dismissal, even threatening to kill himself with butter knives in her apartment, authorities said.<\/p>\n

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EDITOR\u2019S NOTE \u2014 This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Assistant prosecutor Kati Rezmierski told the judge that the case changed \u201cbased on additional evidence and investigation as well as consultation\u201d with the woman through her lawyer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we do believe the evidence supports is criminal misbehavior in the context of an intimate partner relationship,\u201d Rezmierski said.<\/p>\n

Outside the courtroom, Moore\u2019s attorney said the three initial charges, which included stalking, were not supported by facts or law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dismissal of those charges validates the concerns we raised about the investigation from the very beginning. Mr. Moore is pleased to put this behind him and move forward,\u201d Ellen Michaels said as Moore and wife Kelli stood nearby.<\/p>\n

Moore declined to comment on the outcome as they left together.<\/p>\n

\u201cAppreciate it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Rezmierski also declined to comment. Sentencing is scheduled for April 14. One of the charges carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail, though Michaels predicted there would no additional time in custody beyond Moore\u2019s two nights in jail following his arrest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the kind of case that somebody is punished by jail,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Michaels said she advised Moore to plead no contest to help him move on with his family and avoid a trial. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe has had the opportunity to be with his daughters, to be with his wife, to be home for the holidays, to take his kids to swim lessons,\u201d she said. \u201cAs somebody who\u2019s come up the coaching tree and became a head coach at a young age, that is something that he has missed out on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you that losing his job and being at home, he has embraced it as an opportunity to reconnect to his family, to spend time with his kids and to become the man he wants to be,\u201d Michaels said.<\/p>\n

Moore, 40, was fired on Dec. 10 after two seasons as the successor to Jim Harbaugh<\/a>, who won a national championship before leaving to lead the NFL\u2019s Los Angeles Chargers. <\/p>\n

In dismissing Moore, the university cited an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. Rezmierski has said the woman ended the affair a few days before Moore\u2019s firing and spoke to the school.<\/p>\n

University of Michigan spokesman Paul Corliss said the school had no comment on Moore\u2019s no-contest plea.<\/p>\n

At a hearing in February, Moore\u2019s attorney said investigators left out key details when they obtained an arrest warrant for him. Michaels noted, for example, that a magistrate wasn\u2019t told that Moore and the woman had a professional relationship.<\/p>\n

Michaels said repeated text messages and phone calls had a legitimate purpose as the football team prepared for a bowl game and were not evidence of harassment. Police said Moore\u2019s assistant did not answer a dozen calls or respond to some messages from him before his dismissal.<\/p>\n

In a statement Friday night, attorneys for Moore\u2019s assistant called on the university to conduct a wide-ranging investigation into Moore\u2019s actions and any related \u201cinstitutional failures.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s plea by Sheronne Moore confirms the seriousness of that criminal misconduct. But this case is about far more than one terrifying incident,\u201d attorneys Andrew M. Stroth and Steven A. Hart said. \u201cIt raises urgent and troubling questions about how a powerful figure within a major university athletic program was able to engage in years of inappropriate conduct toward a subordinate without meaningful intervention or oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore signed a five-year contract with a base annual salary of $5.5 million last year. According to the terms of his deal, the university did not have to buy out the remaining years of his contract because he was fired for cause.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press writer Ed White in Detroit contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[231078,2662,231079,793,3073,6336,1305,1303,231077,231076,99,231080,795],"class_list":["post-508955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-andrew-m-stroth","tag-college-sports","tag-ellen-michaels","tag-general-news","tag-indictments","tag-jim-harbaugh","tag-mi-state-wire","tag-michigan","tag-paul-corliss","tag-sheronne-moore-sheronne-moore","tag-sports","tag-steven-a-hart","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}