Deion Sanders’ son Shilo accused of trying to ‘avoid responsibility’ in bankruptcy case

Colorado football safety Shilo Sanders reported to preseason football camp in Boulder this week with two big questions hanging over his head in his final season of college football:

∎ Can he help lift the Buffaloes to a bowl game after they fell short last year in father Deion Sanders’ first season as Colorado’s coach?

∎ Will he be freed from the $11 million debt he owes to a former security guard in Dallas after filing for bankruptcy last October?

Both storylines come with high stakes for a player with NFL potential at age 24. But the answer to the second question – his debt – could come sooner than Sanders would like. Last week, attorneys for the security guard, John Darjean, restated their case against him in a new court filing, arguing that Sanders should be held accountable for his alleged assault on Darjean in 2015, when Sanders was 15 years old.

“If Defendant (Sanders) is allowed to relitigate this matter, then Defendant is creating a new legal loophole to avoid responsibility when someone assaults another,” attorneys for the security guard wrote in bankruptcy court filings last week.

A federal bankruptcy judge could decide the matter in coming months with a summary judgment ruling that could blow up Sanders’ bankruptcy case and make him subject to debt collection efforts until he pays it all back. It’s a big pending decision in a baffling case. Here is where it stands after that new filing last week:

Colorado safety Shilo Sanders

The effort to erase Shilo Sanders’ massive debt

Sanders’ goal when filing a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case last year was to stop Darjean’s debt collection efforts and get the debt erased by the court, allowing him “to get a fresh start, free from the oppressive burden of his debts,” as his attorneys have argued.

Normally, the bankruptcy court allows debts to be…

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Publish date : 2024-07-31 11:03:06

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