Post by rainman on Feb 1, 2008 16:36:58 GMT -5
Charges dropped against ‘Pacman’
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge dismissed misdemeanor charges against suspended NFL player Adam “Pacman” Jones on Thursday, agreeing with a prosecutor that the Titans cornerback has been punished enough with his legal trouble over the past year.
Jones knows his behavior outside a Murfreesboro nightclub on the night of his August 2006 arrest was inappropriate, District Attorney General William Whitesell said at a hearing to reconsider a previous plea deal on the charges.
The cornerback was charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct after police said he got into an argument with a woman, refused to leave the suburban Nashville club and shouted profanities at officers. He could have faced a $100 fine for both charges.
“It’s cost him a lot more money than what the court would fine him,” Whitesell said of Jones’ yearlong suspension from the NFL, following a series of arrests. “Mr. Jones hopefully has learned something and been punished enough.”
General Sessions Judge David Loughry ordered Jones on Thursday to apologize to the court. He has already written a letter of apology to the arresting officer.
Jones said he has learned a lot about how to deal with other people and how to conduct himself since the arrest. “It won’t happen again,” he said.
The judge approved a deal in January 2007 that would have dismissed the charges if Jones stayed out of trouble for six months. But Las Vegas police named Jones as the person who incited a fight inside a strip club on Feb. 19, 2007, that led to a triple shooting that left one man paralyzed.
Tennessee prosecutors argued in July that Jones being charged in Nevada was enough to show that the cornerback did not follow his plea agreement here for “good and lawful” behavior.
Jones pleaded no contest Dec. 6 in Las Vegas to conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct in a plea deal reducing two felony charges.
The Las Vegas case resulted in the sixth arrest for Jones since the Titans drafted him with the sixth pick overall in 2005
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge dismissed misdemeanor charges against suspended NFL player Adam “Pacman” Jones on Thursday, agreeing with a prosecutor that the Titans cornerback has been punished enough with his legal trouble over the past year.
Jones knows his behavior outside a Murfreesboro nightclub on the night of his August 2006 arrest was inappropriate, District Attorney General William Whitesell said at a hearing to reconsider a previous plea deal on the charges.
The cornerback was charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct after police said he got into an argument with a woman, refused to leave the suburban Nashville club and shouted profanities at officers. He could have faced a $100 fine for both charges.
“It’s cost him a lot more money than what the court would fine him,” Whitesell said of Jones’ yearlong suspension from the NFL, following a series of arrests. “Mr. Jones hopefully has learned something and been punished enough.”
General Sessions Judge David Loughry ordered Jones on Thursday to apologize to the court. He has already written a letter of apology to the arresting officer.
Jones said he has learned a lot about how to deal with other people and how to conduct himself since the arrest. “It won’t happen again,” he said.
The judge approved a deal in January 2007 that would have dismissed the charges if Jones stayed out of trouble for six months. But Las Vegas police named Jones as the person who incited a fight inside a strip club on Feb. 19, 2007, that led to a triple shooting that left one man paralyzed.
Tennessee prosecutors argued in July that Jones being charged in Nevada was enough to show that the cornerback did not follow his plea agreement here for “good and lawful” behavior.
Jones pleaded no contest Dec. 6 in Las Vegas to conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct in a plea deal reducing two felony charges.
The Las Vegas case resulted in the sixth arrest for Jones since the Titans drafted him with the sixth pick overall in 2005
