The Arapahoe County District Lawyer's Workplace is asking a decide to dismiss prices towards Broncos vast receiver Jerry Jeudy stemming from a dispute together with his girlfriend that landed him in jail.
The movement to dismiss was filed Tuesday and features a request to vacate a court docket listening to to enter a plea that was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, mentioned Eric Ross, a spokesman for the 18th Judicial District Lawyer’s Workplace.
That may permit Jeudy to attend the Broncos' OTA follow Tuesday afternoon if he is wholesome. He was held out final Monday with a sore again.
Jeudy might nonetheless face self-discipline from the NFL, nonetheless. Based on Broncos reporter Troy Renck, a league spokesman mentioned that the matter "stays beneath assessment of the private conduct coverage."
Jeudy, 23, was arrested Sept. 12 on the couple’s suburban Denver residence after his girlfriend reported that he had locked a few of her belongings and gadgets for the infant in his automobile, stopping her from returning to Virginia.
He was arrested on suspicion of second-degree legal tampering with a home violence enhancer, a misdemeanor, and needed to spend the night time in jail till he might seem earlier than a decide due to the enhancer.
In court docket the subsequent day, the girl advised Decide Chantel E. Contiguglia that she didn't really feel threatened throughout the dispute and that there was no bodily contact.
After that listening to, Jeudy’s lawyer, Harvey Steinberg, mentioned Jeudy didn't do something that amounted to a criminal offense and the home violence label shouldn't have been utilized to his case as there was no violence or tried violence.
"Unhealthy issues occur to good individuals, and that’s what this case is," Steinberg mentioned.
Authorities have mentioned there have been no allegations of any bodily violence. Nonetheless, beneath Colorado legislation, home violence can embody any crime dedicated towards an intimate accomplice or their property that's used to intimidate, coerce or search revenge towards them. The legislation additionally requires police to arrest anybody they think dedicated such a criminal offense.
Jeudy, the fifteenth general decide within the 2020 draft out of Alabama, has 90 catches for 1,323 yards and three touchdowns in his two seasons in Denver. He missed a lot of final season with a excessive ankle sprain.
Jeudy mentioned earlier this spring he felt good about his possibilities for a bounce-back season this yr beneath new coach Nathaniel Hackett and newly acquired QB Russell Wilson.
Reporting by the Related Press.
