A jury convicted a former University of Iowa football player Thursday of assault, a simple misdemeanor, related to an October 2007 sexual encounter with a female athlete. Jurors returned their verdict against Cedric Everson at the Johnson County courthouse after 10 hours of deliberations, which started Tuesday. Everson, 21, faces up to 30 days in jail when he is sentenced. The jury did not find him guilty of the more serious charge of third-degree sexual abuse, which would have carried up to 10 years in prison. Prosecutors contended during a weeklong trial that Everson assaulted the woman in a vacant dorm room in October 2007 while she was passed out after one of Everson's teammates, Abe Satterfield, assaulted her first. Satterfield pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge last year but testified last week the sex was consensual. He said Everson tapped him on the shoulder in the middle of the night and he got out of bed, but he didn't know what happened later between the woman and Everson. read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6041496
