Post by MizzouTiger on Mar 4, 2008 3:29:24 GMT -5
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MU player Horton to stand trial April 15
By MIKE DeARMOND
The Kansas City Star
COLUMBIA | The trial of Jason Horton for misdemeanor third-degree assault has been set for April 15 at 2 p.m. before Judge Deborah Daniels.
But when former Missouri basketball teammate Stefhon Hannah might have his day in Boone County court on the same charge is still in limbo.
“Until I receive all the information and we are finished with discovery, I can’t comment,” said Clayton A. Jones, a Raymore attorney who told The Star on Monday that he was representing Hannah.
The Boone County Prosecutor’s office indicated it had not received notification of a court date for Hannah’s case.
Horton is being represented by Christopher Slusher of Columbia, who acknowledged the date posted Monday on the Missouri courts Web site was correct.
Hannah, dismissed from the team last month, and Horton, a senior set to play his final game in Columbia on Wednesday, were arrested after a Jan. 27 incident at the now-closed Athena Night Club in Columbia.
MU coach Mike Anderson suspended five players who were at the Athena beyond team curfew. All but Hannah — the others are seniors Darryl Butterfield and Marshall Brown and junior Leo Lyons — have returned to playing status.
Wednesday’s game is Senior Night, and Anderson indicated he plans to start Horton, Butterfield, Brown and fellow senior Vaidotas Volkus in their final regular-season game at Mizzou Arena.
“It’s going to be their night,” Anderson said. “I’ve always done that.”
•WILL LEO GO? Asked Monday if he expected close friend and teammate Lyons to return for his senior season, Keon Lawrence hemmed a little, hawed a little and then said:
“I don’t really know. Probably not. Who knows?”
Lyons smiled over Lawrence’s uncertain prediction.
“Right now a lot of people do expect me to leave,” Lyons said.
And, Lyons said, there have been efforts by reputed agents to contact him, efforts he has rebuffed by not returning phone calls or answering e-mails or text messages.
“There’s been a lot of people trying to get in contact with me,” Lyons said. “but I know that’s against the rules. I wouldn’t try to wreck my team.”
MU player Horton to stand trial April 15
By MIKE DeARMOND
The Kansas City Star
COLUMBIA | The trial of Jason Horton for misdemeanor third-degree assault has been set for April 15 at 2 p.m. before Judge Deborah Daniels.
But when former Missouri basketball teammate Stefhon Hannah might have his day in Boone County court on the same charge is still in limbo.
“Until I receive all the information and we are finished with discovery, I can’t comment,” said Clayton A. Jones, a Raymore attorney who told The Star on Monday that he was representing Hannah.
The Boone County Prosecutor’s office indicated it had not received notification of a court date for Hannah’s case.
Horton is being represented by Christopher Slusher of Columbia, who acknowledged the date posted Monday on the Missouri courts Web site was correct.
Hannah, dismissed from the team last month, and Horton, a senior set to play his final game in Columbia on Wednesday, were arrested after a Jan. 27 incident at the now-closed Athena Night Club in Columbia.
MU coach Mike Anderson suspended five players who were at the Athena beyond team curfew. All but Hannah — the others are seniors Darryl Butterfield and Marshall Brown and junior Leo Lyons — have returned to playing status.
Wednesday’s game is Senior Night, and Anderson indicated he plans to start Horton, Butterfield, Brown and fellow senior Vaidotas Volkus in their final regular-season game at Mizzou Arena.
“It’s going to be their night,” Anderson said. “I’ve always done that.”
•WILL LEO GO? Asked Monday if he expected close friend and teammate Lyons to return for his senior season, Keon Lawrence hemmed a little, hawed a little and then said:
“I don’t really know. Probably not. Who knows?”
Lyons smiled over Lawrence’s uncertain prediction.
“Right now a lot of people do expect me to leave,” Lyons said.
And, Lyons said, there have been efforts by reputed agents to contact him, efforts he has rebuffed by not returning phone calls or answering e-mails or text messages.
“There’s been a lot of people trying to get in contact with me,” Lyons said. “but I know that’s against the rules. I wouldn’t try to wreck my team.”