MIAMI (WSVN) - Former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown went back before a MIami-Dade County judge to enter a not guilty plea in his case for attempted murder.
Brown, 37, and his attorney, Mark Eiglash, appeared before Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez via Zoom for their very first court arraignment, Monday morning.
In addition to entering a not guilty plea, Eiglarsh requested a jury trial in a case where his client could spend years behind bars if found guilty.
“The state has filed an information charging attempted second-degree murder, a felony in the first degree,” said a clerk during the arraignment. “The guidelines are around 48 months state prison to 30 years state prison with a 20-year minimum mandatory.”
This case stems from a tense May 16 confrontation outside of an underground boxing match in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood. Brown is accused of grabbing a security guard’s handgun and then firing two shots at a man with whom he had gotten into a fistfight earlier that night.
That man told Miami Police officers that he was grazed by a bullet.
Brown then flew to Dubai, where he lived for several months, before he was brought back to the U.S. He spent time behind bars in a New Jersey jail before he was extradited to Florida on Tuesday of last week.
This past Thursday, he was released from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade after spending 42 days behind bars.
Brown remains under house arrest in his Broward County home and has been ordered to wear a GPS ankle monitor. If found guilty, he could spend up to 30 years behind bars with a 20-year minimum. His next court appearance has been set for Dec. 22.
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