MAYWEATHER AVOIDS ANOTHER PRISON TERM BY PAYING $1,000 FINE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 31 Dec 2011
Floyd Mayweather Jr, faced with the prospect of an additional stint in prison following a 90-day sentence which he will begin serving at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas on January 6, paid a $1,000 fine to stay out of jail for a longer period.
Mayweather?s attorneys on Friday completed the second part of a plea deal that allowed him to pay the fine and avoid trial and jail time for a scuffle with a security guard in an argument about parking tickets in November last year.
Mayweather did not appear before Las Vegas justice of the peace Janiece Marshall.
His lawyer, Karen Winckler, pleaded no contest on his behalf to misdemeanor battery and said the fine had been paid.
The plea acknowledged allegations that Mayweather poked a 21-year-old guard in the face several times during their argument in front of Mayweather's home in an exclusive gated community several miles south of the Las Vegas Strip.
Mayweather's lawyers have said they may ask the judge Melissa Saragosa who sentenced him in the domestic violence case to reconsider the 90-day jail term but Winckler declined comment after Friday's hearing.
Police have said good behavior could reduce Mayweather's jail term sentence by several weeks.
Mayweather?s legal troubles aren?t yet over as pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao has a defamation lawsuit pending in federal court in Las Vegas stemming from statements by Mayweather alleging that was on performance-enhancing drugs.
Pacquiao was supposed to give his deposition in the first week of January but his trip to Los Angeles has been postponed even as his lawyers suggested that a delay in the deposition would be appropriate which some believe may be linked to a possible agreement on a Pacquiao-Mayweather megabuck fight sometime in November 2012.
It was reported that Mayweather has to complete 40 hours of community service by January 31 with the Las Vegas Habitat for Humanity project under a South Carolina federal judge's order for dodging a deposition in a music rights lawsuit and also faces a civil lawsuit in Las Vegas from two men who allege he orchestrated a shooting attack on them outside a skating rink in 2009. Police have not accused Mayweather of firing shots and he has not been criminally charged in the case.
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