No decision to withdraw Allen Iverson
March 24, 2009 by Bumeral sports news
Filed under Basketball
WASHINGTON, USA, Mar. 24, 2009 .- A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a request from the player of the Detroit Pistons, Allen Iverson, to withdraw the sentence against him of having to pay 260 thousand dollars of compensation for watch a fight of his bodyguards in a bar in Washington.
The court comprising three judges were unanimous in rejecting the request for Iverson andalusia a jury verdict in 2007.
The incident occurred in 2005 when Iverson arrived with a group of friends at a trendy bar in Washington and in charge of the local site could not get in the VIP area.
Then the bodyguard of Iverson, Jason Kane, began to beat Marlin Godfrey, in charge of the bar with a bottle, while the Pistons player sat on a sofa and watched the attack without making any attempt to prevent it.
Godfrey, who suffered bruises, a broken ear drum, a stroke in the eye, a twist of the shoulder muscles, cuts in different parts of the body and emotional effects, Iverson sued for $ 20 million.
However, the jury decided that the player would have to pay 10 thousand dollars for medical costs and 250 thousand dollars for pain and suffering that he move to Godfrey.
Iverson’s lawyers had asked the appeals court to withdraw the ruling, but the three judges ruled that the evidence of passive involvement of the player was fully established.
“Watch for several minutes as his bodyguards beat Godfrey without trying to stop violent action makes you liable for damages suffered by the assault,” the letter set of the three judges.
The same jury rejected the compensation andalusia waiter Anthony Kittrell, who along with Godfrey had also demanded 20 million to Iverson.
The Pistons player, who is injured in the back, nor his lawyer, so far have made any comment on the opinion of the court.
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