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Cleveland Browns Player Faces Jail Time

By erink

Donte Stallworth, wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns, plead guilty to DUI manslaughter today for a drinking and driving incident that resulted in him striking and killing a pedestrian. The plea deal, which was just accpeted by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Dennis Murphy, orders Stallworth to spend 30 days in jail for the death of Mario Reyes. In the plea agreement, Stallworthwas sentenced to eights years of reporting probation, two years of community control and a lifetime driver’s license suspension. During probation, he will have many drug and alcohol tests. The Reyes family agreed to the plea bargain, pushing for a quick agreement so the case could be resolved. “We’ve been in intense discussions with the victims who, as far as we’re concerned, are the primary force in what is a just resolution of this case,” Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle told the press Monday night...continue to full post

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).