Devine is charged with strangulation.

A strangulation charge and a coaching leave are not a conviction. Bond release is not a finding of innocence. Complaint allegations still have to be proved. Noel Devine, 38, an offensive analyst and assistant football coach for the West Virginia Mountaineers, was booked Sunday on one count of strangle, suffocate, or asphyxiate causing bodily injury or loss of consciousness. Lockup records put the booking in Greenwood, W.Va., around 12:45 p.m. He was released on $40,000 bond. A Friday hearing in Morgantown is on the calendar. West Virginia University placed him on leave after the arrest. Leave is an employer move. It is not a guilty finding.

The criminal complaint, as reported, says the complainant, identified as T.W., described a roughly one-year relationship and alleged an assault in the parking lot of Kegler’s, a Morgantown bar: pushed against a vehicle, then strangulation in the backseat, until friends interrupted. It also alleges Devine tracked her to Ruby Memorial Hospital and tried to enter before he was arrested at a nearby gas station. Those are complaint claims. They are not trial findings. An officer noted no neck markings and said that is not uncommon; chin discomfort was reported. Security footage was reviewed, per the complaint. Footage in a file is evidence the State may offer. It is not a verdict. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.