S-Jax violated probation

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic...048/BUSINESS05

Judge: Jackson violated parole from Palace brawl

January 26, 2007

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROCHESTER HILLS -- Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Jackson violated his probation in Michigan when Indiana prosecutors charged him with firing a gun outside a strip club, a judge ruled Friday.

Jackson was serving probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor assault and battery charges in September 2005 for his role in a 2004 brawl between Indiana Pacers players and fans at The Palace of Auburn Hills. He is charged in Indiana with criminal recklessness — a felony — and misdemeanor counts of battery and disorderly conduct.

Jackson, who was traded to Golden State earlier this month, faces jail time. But his lawyer, James Bur , said he believes District Court Judge Julie Nicholson will make a sentencing determination based on the outcome of the Indiana case.

Police said Jackson fired a gun in the air at least five times during an Oct. 6 fight outside Club Rio. Jackson originally told police that he fired the gun in self-defense, but Marion County (Ind.) Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said Jackson retrieved his gun from his car and fired it before he was struck and injured by another car. He could go to trial in February.

Jackson was one of several Pacers who went into the stands and fought with Detroit fans during one of the worst brawls in U.S. sports history. Jackson was suspended 30 games and sentenced to a year of probation, community service and a fine.

Nicholson also said Friday that she would recommend releasing brawl participant Ron Artest from probation. Artest was hit with a cup filled with an icy beverage that night. The volatile player, who now is with the Sacramento Kings, bolted into the stands in a rage, followed by a fist-swinging Jackson.

[Bob Lanier]

But he was so clutch five years ago, when the Spurs had a special nanny for special needs players!

[Chris Childs]

Lock that THUG up!!!!

[romsey31]

It's great to know he is no longer a Pacer

[boutons_]

Sounds like he's in up to his braids.
Now it's up to his $Ms to buy himself a lawyer to get out of it.

"I was just trying to help/protect my friends" is the perfect indication, an attempt at self-victimization/justification/exoneration, of what a dumb he is.

[Medvedenko]

Great talent and explosiveness worth seeing...still dumb as a box of smashed assholes.
It's like Richard Dumas....

[The Great Fantastic]

Chris Child's sig is the ! That guy is ing hilarious.

[The Great Fantastic]

Oh yea, and Stephen Jackson is a ing idiot.

[Bob Lanier]

A member of Pacers' basketball staff whispered in our ear a few days ago that the atmosphere in the Indy locker room is 100 percent better now that one-time Spurs player Stephen Jackson isn't in it, traded to the Warriors. "We actually thought he was untradeable and couldn't believe we were able to get rid of him in the trade," our friend said. ...