Baxter to serve 2 months in jail

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  1. Smitty

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">WASHINGTON - basketball Former Charlotte Bobcats forward Lonny Baxter was sentenced Wednesday to two months in jail after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges of carrying a gun a few blocks from the White House.

    Baxter, 27, who played with the Bobcats last season, has been in jail since his arrest Aug. 16, when uniformed Secret Service officers responded to reports of shots being fired from a white sport utility vehicle.

    Officers found a gun and spent shell casings in the SUV Baxter was driving. He and his passenger, Francis I. Martin, 35, were charged with carrying a handgun without a license and other firearms charges. Prosecutors dropped the case against Martin on Wednesday.

    Baxter was also fined $2,000, plus court costs, and put on probation for 18 months</div>

    http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/spo...ts/15346406.htm

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    It's a shame when athletes act like this.
     
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    What the hell were they going to do with guns? He's an NBA player, he shouldn't be acting like that.
     
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    ^Especially near a place such as the White House. My first guess that either he was drunk, or it was just one of those idiotic moments.

    Didn't Rodney White get arrested for doing something similar to this?
     

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