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Forget his football future — why isn't Johnny Manziel in jail?

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Johnny Manziel should be in jail.

Or, at best, he should be out on bail, with charges hanging over his head. But that might not really be good enough.

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Manziel was a free man last week when, according to testimony told to police in Fort Worth, he assaulted his ex-girlfriend, Colleen Crowley, and threatened to kill her and himself. He was free because he wasn’t in jail or facing charges in Ohio for a roadside incident in suburban Cleveland with the same woman in October.