Mayweather sentenced to 90 days in jail
Unbeaten American boxing champion Floyd Mayweather was sentenced to
three months in jail Wednesday after pleading guilty to domestic
violence charges.
Las Vegas judge Melissa Saragosa also ordered Mayweather to complete
100 hours of community service and gave him a $2,500 fine.
The guilty plea, and no contest plea to two harassment charges, means
the 34-year-old boxer will not go to trial on charges he hit his
ex-girlfriend and threatened two of their children during an argument at
her home 15 months ago.
Prosecutor Lisa Luzaich argued the sentence was too light. Mayweather
could have received a sentence of 18 months in jail.
“He just continually gets himself into trouble and he is able to get
himself out of it as well,” she said. “Essentially it is because he is
who he is and is able to get away with everything.
“The only thing that’s going to get this man’s attention is
incarceration,” the prosecutor said.
Mayweather, who was told to report to jail January 6, declined to
comment outside the courtroom. The domestic battery charge stems from
striking Josie Harris while the harassment charges come from the threats
to his children. Mayweather was accused of assaulting her after she told
him she was dating another man, police said, and he reacted by striking
Harris, threatening his children and taking their cell phones.
Saragosa said that the police report detailed the incident and in it
Mayweather threatened to kill or make Harris “disappear”. AFP |