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A Georgia football wide receiver removed from playing for the Bulldogs the last eight games plans to waive his formal arraignment and enter a not guilty plea this afternoon, his attorney told the Athens Banner-Herald.
That means that Colbie Young still has hurdles to clear to return to the field while facing misdemeanor charges of battery and assault on an unborn child stemming from an October arrest.
Kim Stephens, Young’s attorney, had sought dismissal on the charges after he said Young’s ex-girlfriend, soon after the incident, recanted in an affidavit what she had initially told police on the night of the incident, but that has not happened.
Young appears unlikely to be reinstated to play in Georgia’s Jan. 1 Sugar Bowl game in the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff.
The female had notified Athens-Clarke County solicitor general Will Fleenor that she wanted the charges dismissed, Stephens said.
“It has not been dismissed by the state as of today,” Stephens said.
Stephens said there are no trial dates before Jan. 1 and because it’s a new case it probably won’t go ahead of others already in line.
The female had told police, according to an incident report obtained by the Athens Banner-Herald, she sustained a “bruise and discoloration on the bottom of her chest and redness on her right plank,” after Young grabbed her from behind and “picked her up and began to squeeze her torso and abdomen very hard,” after an argument.
The woman said in the affidavit that the information in the police report “does not accurately portray what occurred on Oct. 8.” She said Young didn’t commit “any act of violence toward me or my unborn child, including but not limited to simple battery, or assault on an unborn child.”
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Publish date : 2024-12-10 17:26:00
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