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Former Michigan Wolverines football coach Sherrone Moore won a legal victory Tuesday when a judge granted a request for a hearing to learn more about the investigation that led to criminal charges against him.
Moore was arrested in December, hours after being fired as head coach of the Wolverines.
He was accused of breaking into the apartment of a woman with whom he was having an extramarital relationship and threatening to commit suicide in front of her.
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Former University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore listens to his attorney, Ellen K. Michaels, during an appearance before Judge J. Cedric Simpson at a probable cause hearing in 14A-1 District Court in Ann Arbor on Jan. 22, 2026. (Eric Seals/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
Authorities at the time cited him as saying she was to blame for him losing one of the best college football jobs in the country.
He faces felony charges of breaking and entering, stalking and criminal trespass. He and his attorney, Ellen Michaels, have tried to have the case dismissed.
Judge J. Cedric Simpson, presiding, expressed concern that a police detective did not disclose Moore’s employer-employee relationship with the woman when a magistrate authorized an arrest warrant for him. Simpson described it as a “glaring omission.”
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Attorney Ellen Michaels prepares to speak while representing her client, former University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore, in District Court in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, February 17, 2026. (Ryan Garza/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
“The defendant’s due process may have been violated,” he said.
“It wasn’t just a personal relationship. The magistrate should have been able to examine it.”
Simpson set a date of March 2 to hear from police and other witnesses.
The woman ended the relationship with Moore a few days before he was fired and did not respond to a dozen calls and some text messages from him before he was fired, according to police.
Michaels said a coach called and texted an often-reasonable executive assistant while Moore prepared the team for a bowl game.
Sherrone Moore of the Michigan Wolverines during the second half against the Maryland Terrapins at SECU Stadium on Nov. 22, 2025, in College Park, Maryland. (Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images)
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“It’s not harassment if the communication has a legitimate purpose,” Michaels said.
