How alleged actions in youth led to $11 million debt

Shilo Sanders and his attorneys have been fighting two different battles in court in recent months, both with high stakes for the University of Colorado football star:

∎ In Colorado bankruptcy court, they are trying to free him from the $11 million in debt he owes for allegedly assaulting and injuring a man when he was 15 years old in Dallas in 2015.

∎ In Texas state court, they also are seeking to have many old documents related to his youth shielded from public view despite the fact those records might be relevant to his public bankruptcy case now as an adult at age 24.

“There is no basis or justification under Texas state law or under the Bankruptcy Code or Bankruptcy Rules to unseal such materials relating to when Sanders was a minor simply due (to) Sanders reaching the age of majority,” Sanders’ attorneys wrote in a court filing in June.

His attorneys even have called for a hearing in Dallas next week to argue why the court should seal hundreds of pages of court records there that relate to his days as a minor.

In the bigger picture, it highlights the strange circumstances at play with how Sanders, son of Colorado coach Deion Sanders, has fallen into bankruptcy as a young adult because of what he allegedly did as a ninth-grader at a high school in Dallas. Legal experts describe it as an oddity in a justice system that generally aims not to let the mistakes of youth ruin somebody’s life.

But in this case, the law allowed a then-40-year-old man to sue a then-16-year-old boy (Sanders) in civil court in 2016 because of what Sanders allegedly did to the man a year earlier, when Sanders was 15.

The law also allowed the same civil court to hold Sanders responsible for what he allegedly did at age 15 − issuing an $11.89 million default judgment against him that led him into bankruptcy last year at age 23.

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Author : USA TODAY Sports

Publish date : 2024-07-05 11:03:00

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