Jayson Williams is back in the headlines following his arrest early Monday for allegedly punching a person in the face outside of a Raleigh, N.C. nightclub.
A dispute led Williams, 41, to hit the other person shortly before 2 a.m., according to Raleigh police. Williams was charged with one count of simple assault and released on $1,000 bond.
“He was very cooperative during the investigation and very cooperative during the arrest,” said Capt. T.L. Earnhardt of the Raleigh Police Department, according to the Associated Press.
The incident is the latest in a long line of legal and personal trouble for the former NBA All-Star. He is currently awaiting retrial on a reckless manslaughter charge 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.
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Williams was acquitted of aggravated manslaughter, but the jury deadlocked on a reckless manslaughter count. A retrial 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.
He was convicted in 2004 of trying to cover up the shooting, but a judge has ruled he won’t be sentenced until after the retrial on the manslaughter charge. Defense attorneys have said they’ll try to overturn his convictions on grounds of racial bias after the disclosure that a former employee of the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office used a racial slur to describe Williams during the investigation.
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