Ex-Michigan coach Sherrone Moore sentenced to probation, no jailtime
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Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore was sentenced to 18 months of probation in a Michigan court on April 14.
The sentencing came from 14A District Court Judge J. Cedric Simpson on Tuesday, April 14, and will include court fines totaling over $1,000. Moore additionally can have no contact with Paige Shiver and must continue mental health treatment, in addition to no use of alcohol or recreational marijuana.
As noted by Tony Garcia of the Detroit Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network, there are 180 days of suspended jail time, and Moore will be credited with three days served, but he will not do any jail time if he follows his probation.
“I don’t believe … incarceration would be an appropriate sentence,” Simpson said during the hearing. “Frankly, Mr. Moore, you had no right to do what you did…you had no right to spread your pain to her.”
He’ll have a review hearing for October 2027, which was ordered by Simpson.
In his remarks, Simpson made note to mention that the letter that Moore’s wife, Kelli Moore, wrote had the “biggest impact” on the decision and punishment that was handed out to the former Michigan coach.
“The person quite frankly, Mr. Moore, who is saving you from the full wrath of this court is the one you betrayed. I don’t know where your wife, Kelli, finds her strength,” Simpson said. “When all the circumstances are happening and they’re happening to her and she’s absorbing them in real time, she does not once lose her focus. She not once bats an eye to sort of doubt you.
“She not once wants something terrible to happen for you.”
Before Simpson’s comments to the court on Tuesday, Moore made a public comment. He thanked his wife for her “support, strength and standing by” him and that he has taken this process “very seriously.”
Moore reached a plea agreement in March with Washtenaw County prosecutors after he pleaded no contest to malicious use of a telecommunications device and one count of trespass. Both were misdemeanors and different from charges originally brought upon his arrest in December of 2025.
The three previous charges — a felony count of home invasion and two misdemeanors — that Moore had been facing are dismissed.
Michigan fired Moore with cause on December 10, 2025 after the university found “credible evidence” he had “engaged in an inappropriate relationship” with Shriver, who was Moore’s former executive assistant at Michigan.
Moore led Michigan to a 17-8 record in his two seasons leading the program, which does not include a 1-0 record as interim coach in 2023. The Wolverines hired former Utah coach Kyle Whittingham to be his replacement ahead of their Citrus Bowl game vs. Texas in late December.
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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Sherrone Moore sentenced to probation, charges dismissed in home invasion case
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