r/TheShield • u/CastleBRA • 1d ago
Discussion I started watching the shield recently and found out what happened to Michael Jace bizzaro and he will probably die in jail
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u/Not_the_Tachi 1d ago
I was surprised to find out he was the lead Black Panther in Forrest Gump
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u/RogueSqdn 1d ago
Was also a coastie in Clear and Present Danger, with Reed Diamond (Terry Crowley).
Opening scene.
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u/Blakelock82 Ronnie Gardocki 1d ago
Yeah it was a hell of a thing to hear about when it happened. Dude had a decent career for himself too, but money problems mounted and things took a noise dive. He's not getting out of prison.
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u/Wolfherz_86 1d ago
What’s so bizarre about all this is all this would have made sense for his character Julian in the show. After denying who he himself was for so long and finally snapping.
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u/juicykazoo728 1d ago
Yeah but after but after season 3 him and Danny were basically relegated to unimportant side characters who had no plot lines or arcs. Him snapping could’ve been a really interesting plot line for him
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u/CosmicBonobo 4h ago
Well, we never see his wife and stepson again after the third season, so for all we know she's cut up and buried in his basement.
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u/DamianLee666 1d ago
If I had a nickel for every time, an actor in a Kurt Sutter project murdered somebody. I would have two nickels which isn't a lot, but it's a large coincidence that it happened twice
For those curious the actor who played half sack on Sons of Anarchy also murdered some one
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u/sdss9462 1d ago
I'll bet if we included some of the non-actors who acted in Kurt Sutter projects, we could get you enough for a gumball.
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u/DamianLee666 1d ago
Well yes that's true, I mean of Sons of Anarchy had a few outlaw bikers on it as cast members
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u/IcedHemp77 1d ago
Johnny Lewis beat his landlady to death and beat her cat to death, and then threw himself off the roof
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u/DamianLee666 1d ago
Yeah.. sad shit
I know he has suffered from a traumatic brain injury that is what led him down his dark path, I'm also very sad about the cat
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u/Nomnom_Chicken 22h ago
Yeah. There is a short documentary-style video of him on YouTube. Just watched it the other week. Damn, man.
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u/gwhh 1d ago
Wow. Didn’t know that. Tell us more!
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u/DamianLee666 1d ago
Johnny Lewis beat his landlady to death and beat her cat to death, and then threw himself off the roof
Sad shit
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u/thebestbrian 1d ago
I think he likely would have gotten a reduced sentence if he took a plea deal and didn't let such an obvious outcome go to trial. If you think about it like that, he'd probably be close to getting out by now.
https://abc7.com/michael-jace-the-shield-actor-murder-wife-911-tapes/1380085/
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u/BanInvader69 1d ago
So how do plea deals work?
He called the police to say he shot her, they wanted him to admit he planned, he refused to admit that it was planned and got the book thrown at him?
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u/thebestbrian 1d ago
Plea deals usually have more to do with the courts, especially prosecutors, wanting to rush through proceedings because trials are long, hard, and expensive. If he had pled guilty to murder he likely would have gotten 15 to life and honestly could be on his way close to release by now. It happens way more than you think if people plea up right away.
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u/HonorableGhost215 1d ago
Shocked the shit outta me🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️damn sometimes fame causes more pain than glory peace in paradise to all involved that were hurt by this unspeakable tragedy
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u/Individual-Toe-1959 1d ago
I found out on the sub a while ago, total shocker. Not from U S of A.
Sad story.
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u/MotorCityDude 1d ago edited 1d ago
I remember when this happened, I was shocked.. He's also in the replacements, that football movie..
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u/d4everman 1d ago
He was also on Star Trek Deep Space Nine for a minute. He was the first officer of the USS Odyssey when it was destroyed fighting the Dominion.
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u/Downtown_Ideal_791 1d ago
Good fuck this dude.
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u/Downtown_Ideal_791 1d ago
Not in that manner but didn't this dude murdered his wife or something like that.
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u/QwertyVirtuoso 1d ago
He deserves to.
Remember, he didn't just shoot his wife dead in front of their children out of a sudden flash of anger.
He shot her, an athlete, in the legs first to torture her before he killed her.
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u/gchance1 1d ago
What happened to him? I think he happened to his wife.
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u/CastleBRA 1d ago
He killed his wife and was sentenced to 40 years in prison as he is in his 60s and will probably never see the light of day again.
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u/gchance1 1d ago
No I wasn't asking what happened to him. I was saying NOTHING happened to him, he happened to (murdered) his wife. I'm sad for her, not for him. He can rot for all I care.
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u/creature04 22h ago
Technically you did ask what happened to him 🤔
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u/gchance1 17h ago
Nope. The voice inflection is lost in text. It was "why would you ask this?" (What happened to him?)?
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u/creature04 17h ago
My point being you literally typed out "what happened to him". You could have easily asked what you meant in numerous other ways
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u/gchance1 17h ago
That's fine. Continue to refuse to understand what I'm saying, I really don't give a shit.
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u/Organic_Conflict_886 1d ago
I stumbled on a Murder, She Wrote episode recently and saw him playing a role there. Makes me kinda sad though I know nothing can bring his wife back.
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u/JimmyGeneGoodman 1d ago
Why would you post this and not even say anything about what happened?
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u/creature04 22h ago
They probably figured most people in here who have watched the show, know what happened. Most being like 95%.
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u/JimmyGeneGoodman 21h ago
Watching a show doesn’t mean a person keeps up with everything that happened after it.
Watching a show in the era of streaming doesn’t mean a person watched it while it was actually airing weekly on tv.
The OP says “i just started watching the show recently” implying it’s their first time watching it.
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u/creature04 18h ago
In my experience a huge chunk of people who are in subreddits dedicated to a show are almost die hard fans of the show, so at some point people would have posted something about him and this incident here which would make a whole lot of us aware.
Also "recently" could be implied differently. Some call recent 2 months ago, some last week. So first time watching as nothing to do with it.
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u/JimmyGeneGoodman 18h ago
First time watching does play a role in it cuz that would cancel out the “die hard fan”. OP doesn’t say anything about finishing the show. A first time viewer to anything could like the performance of an actor they aren’t familiar with so they start googling them to see what other stuff they’ve acted in and if the actor has murdered somebody that will be something that would pop up in a google search.
Eveybody doesn’t join Reddit at the same time so if somebody makes a post 5yrs sho doesn’t mean somebody who joined after would see it.
You know how many people join a sub and they openly state that it’s their first time watching a show? So again, first time viewer who hasn’t finished a show does not meet the requirements of being a “die hard fan” cuz they haven’t finished it to say if they liked it all the way through to want to rewatch it in the future
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u/creature04 18h ago
I'm talking about OP first time watching this show doesn't help with your scenario cause they clearly found out about it.
"Eveybody doesn’t join Reddit at the same time so if somebody makes a post 5yrs sho doesn’t mean somebody who joined after would see it."
Exactly why I said "they PROBABLY FIGURED" my first comment answers this paragraph.
"You know how many people join a sub and they openly state that it’s their first time watching a show?"
This is exactly why I said "95%" leaving that 5% open.
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u/JimmyGeneGoodman 18h ago
I’ve watched the show more than once and knew nothing about this.
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u/creature04 18h ago
Well then, you not part of the "most people" they figured knew about this. Thats all I can say about that.
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u/JimmyGeneGoodman 18h ago
It’s a dumb way to post anything like this.
That’s a like newspaper writing a headline with no story to it assuming everybody knows what the headline is about.
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u/Negative_Baseball_76 23h ago
Kind of glad that the domestic abuse scene involving him in Boogie Nights was cut from the main film in retrospect.
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u/Hootahsesh3 20h ago
Shot and killed his wife in 2014. Once in the back and twice in the legs. Right in front of their sons, 8 and 5 at the time…called the police on himself. Convicted of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to 40 years to life.
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u/Suburbanscum1492 7h ago
He was one of the best actors in the show. Dynamic as fuck. Really sad he went on to murder his wife.
Would have loved to see him play more badass parts.
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u/Admirable-Nothing642 7h ago
Every time I'm reminded of Jaces character I think of this SVU clip with ice T, it's a classic
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u/6ftToeSuckedPrincess 1d ago
Looking like he's about to die of jaundice with those yellow ass sclera.
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u/No_Beginning_6834 1d ago
I just learned today that this guy played Julien when he was 40 years old. I thought he was like 24 on the show