Former NBA PG Rajon Rondo pleads guilty to gun charge in Indiana, won’t serve jail time

Previous NBA PG Rajon Rondo argues blameworthy to weapon charge in Indiana, won’t serve imprison time

 

 

Rajon Rondo won’t serve imprison time after arguing blameworthy to a weapon charge. (Brett Davis/Reuters)

 

Previous NBA point watch Rajon Rondo argued blameworthy on Tuesday to a charge of illegal ownership of a gun.

 

Rondo entered his supplication at a courthouse in Jackson District, Indiana, according to neighborhood reports. He will not serve imprison time.

 

Rondo was captured in January after being pulled over for a activity infringement in Jackson District. Per police, Rondo was driving his Tesla more than 100 mph and weaving in and out of activity on Interstate 65.

 

 

The capturing officer said that he noticed pot amid the activity halt, inciting a look. Recreational pot isn’t lawful in Indiana. The officer found pot, medicate gear and a 9mm handgun amid the look, concurring to police.

 

Rondo was moreover charged with ownership of medicate gear and cannabis. The sedate charges were dropped as portion of Rondo’s supplication understanding. All three charges were misdemeanors.

 

Rondo was sentenced to 180 days in imprison and credited with time served for two days already went through in imprison. The sentence was suspended, per the supplication assention. Rondo instep will be set on probation for 180 days. He’ll be required to preserve work and maintain a strategic distance from sedate and liquor utilize amid probation, WDRB reports.

 

Agreeing to reports, Rondo was denied from having a gun per crisis defensive orders taken out against him in 2022 after he allegedly debilitated a woman with a weapon at her domestic in Kentucky. Rondo was not charged with a wrongdoing in that occurrence.

 

 

Agreeing to the defensive arrange, Rondo was playing a video diversion with the woman’s child when she asked her child to assist with clothing. Rondo at that point tore the video diversion support from the divider and crushed different things, counting a teacup and open air lights, some time recently taking off the house, the arrange states.

 

The lady said that Rondo at that point returned to the house with a weapon, told her “you’re dead” and requested to see her child. He in the long run cleared out the property after police arrived, concurring to the defensive arrange.

 

The defensive arrange was in the long run expelled after both sides supposedly come to an understanding.

 

Rondo initially pleaded not guilty to the gun charge, and his trial was delayed pending a Second Amendment case in the U.S. Supreme Court. His attorney challenged the constitutionality of the gun charge.

 

 

In June, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law barring anyone facing a domestic-violence restraining order from possessing a gun. Rondo changed his plea on the gun charge to guilty, leading to Tuesday’s ruling.

 

Rondo played 16 seasons in the NBA after two seasons in college at Kentucky. He made four All-Star teams and was named to an NBA All-Defensive team four times. He led the league in assists in three different seasons and was the starting point guard for the 2008 Boston Celtics team that won the NBA championship. He also played a key role for the 2020 NBA champion Lakers. Rondo last played for the Cleveland Cavaliers in

2022