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Former Michigan coach Sherrone Moore was sentenced after pleading no contest to two misdemeanors: malicious use of a telecommunications device and criminal trespass, on March 6.
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The misdemeanor charges arose from an incident in which Moore allegedly confronted his former assistant Paige Shiver after she reported their “inappropriate relationship” to a University of Michigan administrator, leading to his firing in December 2025.
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Shiver reacted to the sentence, telling ESPN that it “does not reflect the harm that was done to me.”
A month after pleading no contest to two misdemeanors, former Michigan coach Sherrone Moore was sentenced to 18 months of probation and a fine of more than $1,000.
Moore, 40, was also prohibited from using drugs or alcohol, possessing firearms or contacting his former assistant Paige Shiver, with whom he allegedly had an “inappropriate relationship,” according to the University of Michigan, which fired Moore in December. He is also expected to continue attending “counseling” sessions, according to ESPN.
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The former coach faced up to six months in prison after previously pleading not guilty to two misdemeanors: malicious use of a telecommunications device and breaking and entering, on March 6. He was sentenced on Tuesday, April 14.
“I don’t believe, when I look at the totality of this situation, that incarceration should be appropriate,” District Court Judge Cedric Simpson said during Tuesday’s sentencing in Washtenaw County Court, according to ESPN. “I’m warning you, Mr. Moore, if there is a violation, all bets are off. I don’t like sending people to jail, but I have no problem doing it.”
“Frankly, Mr. Moore, you had no right to do what you did,” Judge Simpson said of the alleged incident at the home of Moore’s former assistant, Paige Shiver. “I know she was afraid. It was a traumatic experience for you, it was certainly a traumatic experience for her, but you had no right to convey your pain to her.”
The former Michigan coach’s additional charges, including felony criminal trespassing that carried a five-year prison sentence if convicted, were dismissed as part of his plea agreement before sentencing.
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“The person who is saving you from all the wrath of this court is the person you betrayed,” the judge said, referring to Moore’s wife, Kelli, who was present at the sentencing, according to ESPN. “When all the circumstances happen to her and she absorbs them in real time, she never once loses focus, not once does she flinch to doubt you, not once does she want something terrible to happen to you.”
“As I heard the terror in her voice that day, I don’t think there was anyone in the world who would have blamed her for saying, ‘I’m done here,'” Judge Simpson continued, according to ESPN.
“This is a man who is not defined by this moment but by how he responded to it,” Moore’s attorney, Ellen Michaels, said in court, according to ESPN.
Shiver, 32, who previously alleged he faced years of “manipulation, harassment and exploitation,” issued a statement to ESPN amid his sentencing. His statement stated that the sentence “does not reflect the harm that has been done to me.”
Sherrone Moore Arraignment
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“He came into my apartment, crying, screaming, enraged and came at me with knives,” Shiver said in the statement. “They threatened me and I feared for my life.”
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In a previous statement to PEOPLE on March 6, Shiver’s legal team, Action Injury Law Group, claimed Moore “had enormous power over her professional life as the head football coach of one of the top college football programs in the country.”
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“The power imbalance between a powerful head coach and a subordinate employee created an environment in which our client felt pressured, intimidated, and unable to escape conduct that should never occur in any workplace, much less a public university,” the statement continued at the time.
Following his firing in December 2025, Moore was later accused of driving to the employee’s house, grabbing butter knives, and threatening to commit suicide. He was arraigned and charged with third-degree breaking and entering, stalking and trespassing, charges that were dismissed as part of the plea deal.
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