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that asshole. $2.5 million for a human life? I hope he gets a couple of years for killing his driver and then trying to make it look like a suicide.
Former Net Jayson Williams arrested after nightclub fight
Former NBA star Jayson Williams was arrested early Monday after authorities say he punched someone in the face outside a Raleigh nightclub, the latest legal tribulation for the all-star who has spent years in the courtroom since an injury ended his basketball career.
Some type of dispute led Williams, 41, to hit the other person shortly before 2 a.m., Raleigh police said. Williams was charged with one count of simple assault and released on $1,000 bond.
'He was very co-operative during the investigation and very co-operative during the arrest,' said Capt. T.L. Earnhardt of the Raleigh Police Department.
Joseph Hayden, a lawyer for Williams, did not immediately return a telephone message.
Williams played nine seasons in the NBA for the New Jersey Nets and Philadelphia 76ers before retiring in 2000. He's facing a re-trial on a charge of reckless manslaughter in the 2002 shooting death of his driver, Costas (Gus) Christofi, at his mansion in Alexandria Township, N.J. According to testimony, Williams was showing visitors a 12-gauge shotgun when it went off and hit Christofi in the chest.
Williams was acquitted of aggravated manslaughter, but the jury deadlocked on a reckless manslaughter count. A re-trial is pending, and he has been free on bail since the shooting. He has apologized to Christofi's relatives and given them $2.5 million to settle a civil suit.
that asshole. $2.5 million for a human life? I hope he gets a couple of years for killing his driver and then trying to make it look like a suicide.
This guy is a complete trainwreck. The Judge would have helped him more by sentencing him after his conviction. I don't know whay he gave him bail pending retrial. Putting him in prison would have avoided all this.
Did this guy grow up in the hood or something? He sounds like Eminem but as a basketball has-been.
sick man
Is anyone actually surprised by this?
He has done alot wrong ever since he ended his career..
It was an accident.
Wrong. He is a marked man. Some drunk jackass probably started taunting him. He has a right to go out, you know. He is presumed innocent. Don't be duped by the mass media and police-industrial complex.
bull , he was involved in one accident. He was a respectable sports announcer, and now the police have ruined his life. WAKE UP!!
dude, this guy, Jayson Williams, HAS NEVER BEEN CONVICTED OF A CRIME. He has already been falsely accused of one crime. Now he is looking at double-jeopardy. This guy has ZERO criminal intent. You have to have criminal intent to be a criminal, he has none. Zippo. He is being smeared by the mass media. They are trying to poison the jury in our rigged system!
Look, a few people were playing with a gun, it went off. So its all Jayson Williams fault, eh? That's BS!!! The guy who got put himself in harms way, his family has been compensated $2.5 million. Give Jayson a break, he is a good man!
Waving a loaded gun around was pretty stupid though.
you. You have no idea what happened. Some drunk could have been calling him a ###### at the bar. Or maybe Jayson never hit him at all. Or maybe Jayson threw up his hands in self defense, you don't know. Only an idiot would jump to conclusions based on this article. What do you think Jayson did, went out and picked a fight? I doubt it. Stop being part of the sheeple, and start being part of the people!!!!sick man
In his own home? Was he "waving it" or "showing it"?
The cops use words to manipulate your thoughts. Don't be fooled!
I'm ask cynical as you, but any responsible gun owner would never point a loaded gun in the direction of anyone. It doesn't matter where he is.
How do you know he pointed it at anyone? What's your evidence??
N.J. Supreme Court to hear arguments on racial slur in Jayson Williams retrial
by Jennifer Golson/The Star-Ledger
Friday January 09, 2009, 5:30 PM
The state Supreme Court next month will hear oral arguments over whether information about a racial slur an officer used to describe Jayson Williams should become part of the former New Jersey Net's pending retrial for reckless manslaughter.
The court has tentatively scheduled the matter for Feb. 3, said Tammy Kendig, a spokeswoman for the Administrative Office of the Courts.
The Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office insists the information should remain sealed.
The incident occurred in 2002, when the investigator used the slur to describe the former basketball player during a meeting within the prosecutor's office after Williams was named in the death of Costas "Gus" Christofi, 55.
Assistant Prosecutor Bennett Barlyn has said the man no longer works for the office, was not an integral part of the investigation and did not testify in the first trial in 2004. He also will not be called as a witness in the next.
Williams' attorney Joseph Hayden Jr. said the defense has no way of knowing what impact the officer's comments had on others or the investigation and trial.
Williams is accused of recklessly handling a shotgun that fired and fatally struck Christofi, a limousine driver, at Williams' former estate in Alexandria Township Feb. 14, 2002. During the 2004 trial, the jury cleared him of the most serious charges, but found him guilty of trying to cover up the shooting. They could not agree on reckless manslaughter.
http://www.nj.com/hunterdon/index.ss...ear_argum.html
Do you see what is going on here? The cops/prosecution/government is trying to hide evidence from the jury!
Most defendants get railroaded with tactics like this. Jayson thankfully has some money to defend himself, but is probably already been bled dry. Plus he lost his TV broadcasting job.
It has been SEVEN YEARS since this happened!! What the kind of court system takes 7 years to settle this ? That is 10% of the life expectancy of the average person!!!
Former N.J. Net Jayson Williams is hospitalized after being Tasered by N.Y.C. police
by Jennifer Golson/The Star-Ledger
Monday April 27, 2009, 2:00 PM
Former New Jersey Net Jayson Williams was removed from a Manhattan hotel and transported to a city hospital after police received reports of an "emotionally disturbed person," authorities said.
Police responded to the hotel on North End Avenue at about 4 a.m. and found Williams intoxicated and agitated in the room, said a New York City police spokeswoman. Police said they stunned Williams with a Taser and handcuffed him. Williams, 41, was transported to St. Vincent's Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
Longtime friend Akhtar Farzaie said he last spoke to Williams last night, and he seemed fine. The former basketball star was in town to see his children, Farzaie said.
But then Farzaie said he got the call this morning that the father of two was in the hospital. "My first reaction as a friend was to get in the car and head out and be by his side," Farzaie said .
"Last I spoke to Jay, Jay was completely fine. There was nothing that would make me ... call the police or any authority," he said.
Police said there were empty bottles of prescription pills were strewn around the hotel room.
Williams is awaiting trial for reckless manslaughter for the 2002 shooting death of limousine driver Costas "Gus" Christofi, 55, at his former estate in Alexandria Township.
At the same time, he is fighting a battle in Manhattan Supreme Court, where his wife Tanya Williams has filed for divorce. She accused Williams of psychological abuse, faking his suicide and falsely claiming to have cancer, according to her attorney Malcolm Taub.
Williams' attorney Christopher Adams has denied those allegations, insisting that Tanya Williams had been threatening for months to make up false stories unless he submitted to outrageous demands.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/200..._jayson_w.html
Does anyone else here see what the cops and the government have done to this man? They are breaking him down. Now his wife has filed for divorce. The money is probably all gone. This is total bull what the system does to you! And he hasn't been convicted of any real charges. This is what happens to the innocent people, God foraske what happens to the guilty or those who can't defend themself. WAKE UP!!
Here's another one (wonder if the jury gets to hear about it?):
Prosecutor ousted from Jayson Williams case to claim whistleblower retaliation
by Ralph R. Ortega/The Star-Ledger
Tuesday January 08, 2008, 6:23 PM
The former lead prosecutor preparing to retry former New Jersey Net Jayson Williams is preparing a whistleblower complaint against the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office after being asked to leave her job last week, her lawyer said today.
Hunterdon County Assistant Prosecutor Katharine Errickson, 38, was asked to leave her post and given the option to resign, said the attorney, Nancy Erika Smith. Errickson, who is also five months pregnant, was so shocked when she was told to leave the prosecutor's office on Friday, she had to be hospitalized, Smith said.
"She's under a doctor's care today," Smith said. "She's still not well."
Errickson declined to comment today. Smith, speaking on Errickson's behalf, said her client would not resign, even though the office was treating her as if her employment had ended.
Prosecutor J. Patrick Barnes declined to comment.
Smith said she was preparing a complaint against Barnes and his office that will include charges of discrimination and retaliation. Errickson had been a whistleblower in the office, according to Smith, who declined to disclose details.
Errickson's departure leaves the Williams case without a lead prosecutor for the second time, after former First Assistant Prosecutor Steven Lember resigned in July. Lember left the job saying he had significant differences with his boss over the way the office was being run.
Williams is awaiting retrial in the 2002 shooting death of his limousine driver, Costas "Gus" Christofi.
Read more in Wednesday's Star-Ledger.
Previous Star-Ledger coverage:
-Jayson Williams retrial on hold as state appeals racial slur ruling
-Defense reviews racial slur do ents in Jayson Williams case
-Slur allegation surfaces in Jayson Williams case
-The Jayson Williams trial
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How about a man died of shotgun wounds to the chest? Did the shotgun pellets change direction? It's called reckless manslaughter for a reason. I'm not condemning Williams to prison, but there is still a man dead because of William's actions. Are you claiming Williams wasn't the one who held the gun when it discharged?
Ever heard of assuming the risk? I would not go over to someone house who left loaded guns laying around.
From what I understand, the gun was laying flat and when Jayson picked it up and tried to get his hand on it, it went off. This is totally an accident.
This is no different than a big man in the low post mishandling a pass, the pass needs to be looked at for fault, not just the big man.
This case happened 7 years ago. If he was actually guilty of anything substantial, it would have happened by now.
The fact is, Williams had no criminal intent, and this case should have been in the civil courts. You forgot that Williams gave the man's family $2.5 million dollars.
How do you know that Christofi knew that? He was just a driver. Where is your evidence?
Where is your evidence? Whether or not he picked it up when it went off, or had it in his hands, doesn't change the fact that is was a loaded weapon. All I said was that Williams made a stupid mistake. Showing off a loaded weapon.From what I understand, the gun was laying flat and when Jayson picked it up and tried to get his hand on it, it went off. This is totally an accident.
I forgot nothing, and I JUST said I'm not condemning Williams. What exactly are you trying to debate with me?The fact is, Williams had no criminal intent, and this case should have been in the civil courts. You forgot that Williams gave the man's family $2.5 million dollars.
No, he ruined Gus Christofi's life. I hate morons who don't show respect to their firearms. Idiots like Jayson Williams are why it's so easy for people to come and clamor for our second amendment rights to be taken away. A gun's not a ing toy or something you leave sitting around where it can be easily involved in an accident.
Wrong, Jayson didn't do it, the gun did it. The gun should be impounded, locked up, imprisoned, melted down, then stomped on.
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