At the hearing on Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy’s 10-game suspension, the NFL didn’t specifically state which version of the Personal Conduct Policy had been applied to Hardy’s alleged acts of domestic violence from May 2014. Likewise, hearing officer Harold Henderson didn’t force them to.
Fittingly, the 12-page, single-spaced, written ruling from Henderson fails to identify whether the Personal Conduct Policy in existence as of May 2014, the new penalties adopted in August 2014, or the new policy adopted in December 2014 applied.
“I find the record here insufficient to determine when a new policy was promulgated or effective,” Henderson writes at page 6 of the decision.