Paige Shiver, the former University of Michigan football staff member who accused former football coach Sherrone Moore of breaking into her apartment and threatening her, reacted to a judge failing to give Moore any jail time.
“The University of Michigan gave this man limitless power and emboldened him to do whatever he wanted for years with no accountability,” Shiver said in a statement on Tuesday, April 14. “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. Today’s sentence does not reflect the harm done to me or the objective evidence in this case.”
Moore, 40, allegedly broke into Shiver’s residence on December 10, 2025, shortly after he was fired by the University of Michigan after an investigation confirmed an “inappropriate relationship” with Shiver, who complied with the investigation.
Judge J. Cedric Simpson sentenced Moore to 18 months probation on Tuesday. Moore was also instructed to not contact Shiver under any circumstances.
“Today’s sentence does not reflect the seriousness of Moore’s unlawful entry and aggressive attack on Ms. Shiver on December 10th,” the statement continued. “Following his termination from the University, this deranged 6-foot-4, 285-pound man broke into her apartment and physically threatened her with knives.”
The statement continued, “For several years, the University of Michigan’s leadership looked the other way and allowed Ms. Shiver to be exploited and abused by Moore. The University enabled Moore and others in positions of authority within the Athletic Department, fostered the ongoing and escalating abuse, and advanced a culture that cared not about the hostile environment but instead was focused only on winning football games.”
Shiver and her legal team called on individuals from the University of Michigan, including new head football coach Kyle Whittingham, to “take responsibility for the harm done to Ms. Shiver and others.”
Moore pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of malicious use of a telecommunications device in context of a domestic relationship and trespassing during a court appearance on March 6.
Charges of felony home invasion, misdemeanor stalking and misdemeanor breaking and entering were all dropped, with First Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kati Rezmierski explaining there was not “sufficient evidence to prove a count of domestic violence in this matter, not historically and not what happened on December 10.”
In giving his sentencing on Tuesday, Judge Simpson explained why he neglected to put Moore behind bars.
“Incarceration is usually left to those times where an individual continues to impose a risk to society or others, or an individual, this court believes, can’t in some way conform themselves to how we should operate in society,” Simpson said. “I don’t believe, when I look at the entirety of this case, that incarceration would be an appropriate sentence.”
