WASHTENAW COUNTY, Mich. – Former University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore is scheduled to return to court in connection with a case involving his alleged inappropriate relationship with a staffer.
Moore is set to appear in the 14-A District Court in Washtenaw County on March 6 before Judge Cedric Simpson for an evidentiary hearing.
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This hearing comes as Moore’s attorney, Ellen Michaels, attempts to have his charges dismissed.
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When the former head football coach appeared in court on Feb. 17, Michaels said that Moore’s work relationship with the staff member was not disclosed in the arrest warrant.
The staff member was Moore’s executive assistant, and Michaels said that phone calls and text messages Moore sent in December could have been work-related.
The prosecutor, Kati Rezmierski, first assistant prosecutor for Washtenaw County, focused on allegations about what happened on Dec. 10, after Moore was fired.
“He called her two times after that. She didn’t answer, showed up at her apartment, barged his way in, grabbed the implements that he did. She felt utterly terrorized in that moment,” the prosecution said. “Threatened to kill himself, pointed the implements at her, backed her further into her apartment, eventually left when she got her lawyer on speakerphone, and even after he left, then called her -- as is witnessed on body cam -- called her yet again, and sent her two more texts: ‘I hate you’ and ‘My blood is on your hands.’”
The prosecutor argued that by that point, there was no longer an employment relationship and that the alleged conduct independently supports probable cause for stalking.
She acknowledged the employer-employee relationship was not detailed in the warrant but suggested the detective may have assumed it was a known fact.
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During that hearing, Simpson claimed leaving out their work relationship was “misleading” and “a glaring omission to leave out or frame this relationship in one way.”
The judge granted the motion for an evidentiary hearing. It was initially scheduled for March 2, but was later pushed back to March 6.
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This hearing also comes amid separate allegations involving former Michigan assistant football coach LaTroy Lewis, who was fired by the Atlanta Falcons in connection with a sexual assault investigation tied to his time as a graduate assistant at Michigan under Moore.
According to the woman’s attorney, the woman met Lewis on a dating app and began communicating with him in July 2024. The attorney said Lewis’ behavior allegedly became “increasingly aggressive” over text messages and phone calls before he allegedly raped and battered the woman at an Ann Arbor hotel on Dec. 5, 2024.
The woman also told Moore, whom she knew personally, about the alleged assault, but he failed to report it and “weaponized” the situation against the woman, including by sending her sexual text messages, according to her attorney.
Moore’s attorney has denied these allegations.
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Background
Moore was arrested on Dec. 10 after a 911 call reporting a man attacking a woman in a Pittsfield Township apartment.
He was later detained and placed in protective custody by mental health professionals. Moore has been charged with third-degree home invasion, stalking, and breaking and entering.
During his Dec. 12 arraignment, prosecutors said Moore and the staffer had been involved in an intimate relationship “for a number of years.”
Prosecutors said the staff member ended the relationship on Dec. 8, but Moore continued calling and texting her.
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Moore was fired after the staff member reported the matter to the university.
On Dec. 10, Moore allegedly went to the staff member’s apartment, grabbed “several butter knives and a pair of kitchen scissors” from a drawer, and threatened to hurt himself.
He left after the woman threatened to call her lawyer and the police, officials said.
Moore was released on a $25,000 bond and is required to wear a GPS tether, undergo mental health treatment, and have no contact with the victim.