Sefolosha and Pero Antic facing Manhattan court Oct 5
NEW YORK — A court date in New York City will remain Oct 5.
A Manhattan judge said that Sefolosha jury trial to contest charges of resisting arrest will begin Oct. 5, after the Atlanta Hawks forward rejected an offer Wednesday for a conditional dismissal.
Sefolosha and ex-Hawks teammate Pero Antic were arrested in Manhattan in the early hours of April 8 for interfering with the establishment of a crime scene after the stabbing of then-Indiana Pacers forward Chris Copeland outside a nightclub.
On Wednesday, the district attorney’s office dismissed the charges against Antic, who signed a two-year contract with Fenerbahce Ulker of Turkey over the summer. Pero Antic more luckily won’t come to U.S court, but his teammate refused to dismissal case.
The district attorney’s office also offered Sefolosha an opportunity to dismiss his charges after six months, provided he performed a day of community service. But Sefolosha rejected the offer, opting to fight the charges before a jury.
“He’s innocent and he wants to be vindicated,” Sefolosha’s attorney, Alex Spiro, said outside of the Manhattan courthouse.
Thabo with broken fibula hilling well, said to sources, and he is expecting to return the middle of Atlanta’s training camp, he might miss some of the training, while going to court in Manhattan.
“We tried to push it as much as we could. We’re working with the system, so it’s not just as if we could decide the date and they would accommodate it,” Sefolosha said outside of court, flanked by National Basketball Players Association general counsel Gary Kohlman.”
