Former NFL star extensive receiver Antonio Brown might be launched on $25,000 bail and should put on a GPS ankle monitor whereas dealing with an tried homicide cost in Florida, a decide ordered Wednesday.
Brown, 37, has pleaded not responsible to the second-degree tried homicide cost, which carries a possible 15-year jail sentence and a positive as much as $10,000 if he's convicted. His lawyer, Mark Eiglarsh, stated Brown would return to his dwelling in Broward County, Florida, whereas the case proceeds.
“He now not has a passport. He'll be dwelling at his dwelling. I stay up for working with him zealously on this case,” Eiglarsh informed Circuit Decide Mindy Glazer at a bond listening to.
Brown appeared on the listening to by way of video sporting a pink jail shirt and spoke solely to reply questions from the decide. Prosecutors had sought pretrial detention, contending Brown is a former skilled athlete with the sources to flee.
Based on an arrest warrant, Brown is accused of grabbing a handgun from a safety staffer after a star boxing match in Miami on Could 16 and firing two photographs at a person he had gotten right into a fistfight with earlier. The sufferer, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, informed investigators that one of many bullets grazed his neck.
Brown's legal professional stated Wednesday that the affidavit is mistaken and that Brown truly used his private firearm, and that the photographs weren't geared toward anybody.
“It was my shopper's personal gun,” Eiglarsh stated.
Based mostly on his social media posts, Brown had been dwelling in Dubai for a number of months. In a social media publish after the altercation, Brown stated he was defending himself as a result of he was “jumped by a number of people who tried to steal my jewellery and trigger bodily hurt to me.”
Eiglarsh stated Brown has unspecified enterprise pursuits in Dubai and all the time meant to show himself in on the tried homicide cost.
“He did not flee to Dubai,” the lawyer stated. “He all the time had a need and intention to reply this case.”
Brown, who spent 12 years within the NFL, was an All-Professional extensive receiver who final performed in 2021 for Tampa Bay however spent most of his profession with Pittsburgh. For his profession, Brown had 928 receptions for greater than 12,000 yards and accounted for 88 complete touchdowns counting punt returns and one go.
