Five Pacers to get separate trials on brawl charges

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  1. Apollo

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) -- Five Indiana Pacers players charged in one of the worst brawls in U.S. sports history will be tried separately.

    A judge Friday granted the players' request for separate trials on misdemeanor assault and battery charges so they would not be called as complaining witnesses at the same trial in which they are defendants.

    Lawyers for the five -- Ron Artest, Jermaine O'Neal, Stephen Jackson, Anthony Johnson and David Harrison -- contended there was a risk the players would be called to testify in a way that could be self-incriminating.

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    i thought this event was forgotten and forgiven. guess not.
     
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    Join the club.
     
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    This is more of a lesson theya re teaching pro sports, rather than a purpose to uphold the law. i think its going to be a waste of the court's time. put taht time towards real people's problems.
     
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