Paige Shiver, the former mistress and personal assistant of Sherrone Moore, has released a blistering statement after the disgraced Michigan football coach avoided jail.
Moore received a sentence of 18 months’ probation over his December 10 arrest for confronting Shiver at her apartment.
Judge J. Cedric Simpson did hand down prison sentences of 180 days and 30 days, but the terms were both suspended, meaning the 40-year-old Moore won’t have to go to jail – provided he does not breach the terms of his probation. ‘I don’t believe incarceration would be an appropriate sentence,’ Simpson said.
It comes after the disgraced coach landed a huge victory in court last month, when charges of home invasion, stalking, and breaking and entering against him were dismissed as part of an agreement with prosecutors.
In exchange, Moore pleaded no contest to misdemeanor counts of trespassing and malicious use of a telecom device in a relationship.
Moore was fired on December 10 after the school became aware of his affair with the 32-year-old Shiver. He was later arrested that same day near an apartment belonging to Shiver after police received a 911 call claiming he had burst into her residence and threatened to harm himself.
Paige Shiver (left) has released a blistering statement after Sherrone Moore avoided jail
The former Michigan football coach and his wife Kelli Moore walk into court in Ann Arbor
Moore is pictured on the sideline alongside his ex-assistant, who said: ‘I feared for my life’
But Shiver has slammed the judge’s decision, insisting Moore’s sentence ‘does not reflect the harm done to me or the objective evidence in this case.’
Shiver said: ‘December 10th was the most terrifying day of my life. The criminal acts he committed were extremely frightening and violent. He broke into my apartment, crying, yelling, enraged, and came at me with knives. I was threatened, and I feared for my life’
Shiver’s attorneys also released a statement in which they branded Moore ‘deranged’ and echoed their client’s anger at his punishment.
‘Today’s sentence does not reflect the seriousness of Moore’s unlawful entry and aggressive attack on Ms. Shiver on December 10th,’ Andrew M. Stroth and Steven A. Hart said.
‘Following his termination from the University, this deranged 6 foot 4, 285-pound man broke into her apartment and physically threated her with knives.’
Moore must pay court fees and fines totaling $1,100, avoid alcohol and other drugs, continue to undergo mental health treatment, and avoid any form of contact with Shiver, who called the police on him on December 10.
On Tuesday, Simpson stressed that Moore’s probation does not lessen ‘the impact of those events.’ He also delivered a stirring address, identifying Moore’s wife, Kelli, as the ‘person saving him from the full wrath of this court.’
Specifically, Simpson credited Kelli for her strength in managing for their daughters while frantically trying to help the police track down her husband on December 10. Simpson noted in one of the 911 calls from Kelli, he could hear the couple’s ‘babies’ in the background.
Moore is seen hugging his wife, whom the judge credited for keeping the coach out of jail
Kelli also wrote Simpson a letter to urge him for leniency. ‘The person who is saving you from the full wrath of this court is the person who you betrayed,’ Simpson said.
‘When all of the circumstances are happening to her, and she is absorbing them in real time, she not once loses her focus, not once bats an eye to doubt you, not once wants something terrible to happen to you. As I listened to the terror in her voice that day, I don’t think there would be anybody in the world who would have blamed her from saying, “I am done here.”
‘I am amazed by you, Ms. Moore,’ Simpson added. ‘I don’t know where it comes from. If we had more people like you in the world, I may be out of a job, but the world would be a better place.’
Prior to his sentencing, Moore thanked Kelli for standing by him throughout this ordeal.
‘Your Honor, first of all, I want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the grace and guidance during this difficult time,’ Moore said. ‘I want to thank my beautiful wife, Kelly, for her support, her strength, and standing by me.’
Simpson also thanked prosecutors for dropping their initial charges, including stalking, because it didn’t comport with additional facts that came out during trial.
Initially, police failed to indicate that Shiver was Moore’s employee when they were securing charges against the fired coach and that professional connection undermined the claim of stalking.
But Simpson also admonished Moore for his behavior on December 10, when he burst into Shiver’s apartment using the door code she had previously given him.
The ex-football coach is pictured in the back of a police cruiser after his December 10 arrest
‘I know that she was placed in fear,’ Simpson said of Shiver, referring to her by name. ‘It was a traumatic experience that day for you. It was certainly a traumatic experience for her, but you had no right to spread your pain to her.’
Moore has been hoping to turn the page on the incident, but the married father of three was thrust back into the spotlight late last month when footage surfaced showing him blaming the entire ordeal on Shiver.
‘I have to spend a night in jail because she lied,’ Moore told officers from a Michigan hospital, where he was undergoing a mental health evaluation. ‘I never did anything to her. She straight up lied. She ruined my life… she’s lying. I wanted to get rid of her and she said I couldn’t because she’d sue me.’
Moore found a sympathetic audience with Michigan police, one of whom offered to call the coach ‘Mr. Moore.’ Another even gave Moore a supportive hug as he was getting out of the police cruiser.
At one point, an emotional officer told Moore he was ‘trying not to cry with you,’ and when the fired coach said ‘it’s always the women that try to do this s***,’ the cop on hand was quick to agree.
‘I understand, I’ve been doing this for 15 years,’ he said. ‘I can relate to you.’
On Tuesday, Simpson also admonished the police for their overly kind treatment of Moore when he was a suspect in their custody on December 10.
‘I want to make it real clear… the individual that did that was a member of the Sheriff’s office,’ Simpson said. ‘He is not a member of the court.’
Aside from obtaining information about the incident, the officers seemed primarily concerned with Moore’s threats about harming himself.
Moore acknowledged bringing scissors to her apartment, where he allegedly grabbed a butter knife, but he insisted he never pointed them at his assistant.
‘I did not hold anything to her, touch her, and that’s when I drove on,’ Moore said. ‘That’s when I left. I drove and I was gonna harm [myself].’
Referencing the coach’s daughters, the officer stressed the importance that Moore remain in their lives as they grow older.
Shiver’s contract with the Wolverines has recently expired, an athletic department spokesman told the Daily Mail.
A former offensive lineman at Oklahoma, the Kansas native became a graduate assistant coach at Louisville before getting added to head coach Charlie Strong’s full-time staff in 2012. Moore would go on to join Central Michigan as an assistant before being hired by now-former Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh in 2019.
After winning the 2023 national championship as the Wolverines offensive coordinator, Moore was promoted to head coach in Ann Arbor as Harbaugh took the Los Angeles Chargers job in the NFL.
Getting another job in football won’t be easy and Michaels said his first priority is focusing on his wife and daughters.
‘He has had the opportunity to be with his daughters, to be with his wife, to be home for the holidays, to take his kids to swim lessons,’ Michaels said. ‘As somebody who came up the coaching tree and became a head coach at a young age, that is something he missed out on.’
