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StumbleRoger Mayweather a no-show in court; judge threatens warrant
Jack Buchanan, attorney for Roger Mayweather, asks for a two-week continuance for his client in Clark County District Court at the Regional Justice Center on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. A two-day continuance was granted instead.
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 | 3:05 p.m.
Roger Mayweather talks to reporters at the Mayweather Boxing Club Tuesday, September 2, 2009.
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A judge begrudgingly reset a hearing today for boxing trainer Roger Mayweather, who is accused of beating and choking a female boxer last August at her Las Vegas apartment.
Mayweather is the uncle and trainer of boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. He was to be arraigned this afternoon on felony charges of coercion, battery-strangulation and battery with substantial bodily harm in connection with the alleged assault.
Roger Mayweather wasn’t in court. His attorney, Jack Buchanan, said he spoke with Mayweather this morning, but his client was unable to attend the hearing.
Clark County District Court Hearing Master Kevin Williams reluctantly continued the hearing until Thursday morning and said a bench warrant would be issued for Mayweather’s arrest if he’s not there.
“If he is not here at 10:30 Thursday you can tell him we will send the police looking for him,” Williams told Buchanan.
Buchanan said Mayweather had a stringent routine at his gym in the afternoons and requested the arraignment be set at a morning time.
Prosecutor James Miller said Mayweather was given the date and time of the arraignment at his last appearance during a Jan. 15 preliminary hearing in Las Vegas Justice Court. Miller voiced concerns about Mayweather’s history of not coming to court and cited 50 failures to appear in his record.
“That obviously concerns the state,” Miller said.
Williams agreed, promising a bench warrant if Mayweather didn’t show up Thursday.
“People miss work all the time because they have to come to court, so you know, I’m not really that convinced that just because he wants to stay at his gym for whatever he was working on, I don’t think he’s any more special than anybody else,” Williams said.
Mayweather failed to appear Oct. 2 for arraignment on the charges in justice court and a bench warrant was issued at that time, but it was quashed about a week later.
Mayweather’s alleged victim, Melissa St. Vil, testified Jan. 15 that Mayweather, 48, entered her apartment in the 700 block of Rock Springs Drive, near the intersection of Washington Avenue and Rainbow Boulevard, and started a physical altercation that left her bruised and in severe pain.
Mayweather was arrested after the scuffle but is no longer in custody.
Buchanan said Mayweather will plead not guilty to the charges.
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Unacceptable !! If I were the Judge I would have issued the warrant for Mayweather's arrest right then and there! Too bad he couldn't make his own arraignment! who does he think he is? Throw the book at him I say!
And I quote: "50 failures to appear in his record." Ummmmm HELLO!!!!!
Let me try that just once and see if it works.. I think the somebody needs to grow some balls.
Let me see here. I went to court to pay a ticket I had and on the paperwork was clearly written "7:30 am to 4:00 pm. I took off work and got there at 2:30 and was called to the window at 3:02. I was promptly put in handcuffs by a police officer and held for 6 days on a $190 ticket. Then, when I would complain for the other poor inmates I was deemed "the F---g White B---h" and to get away from the f----g window. The complaints were for toilet paper, cups for water, sanitary items for the female inmates, etc. Great. He gets away 50 times and beat the hell out of someone. I guess I can call this racial profiling for the White woman. Clearly I was discriminated against because I was White. Should I call the ACLU. Too funny.
order a warrant and an Olympic style blood tests!
Here's a thought: Maybe Mayweather just figured out his attorney ain't Bucky?
This ain't your father's Oldsmobile, or something like that.
The judge threatens a warrant? This is the second time that thug is a no show in court, he's thumbing his nose at the court and the law and it's time the law goes and gets him and puts him in a cell until his next court day.
If a regular citizen pulled that stuff we'd be hauled into jail in a NY second.
HamiltonBurger, That's the best. What,Captain Hook Fish and Chips didn't want any of that? Your right, That ain't your father's Buick LaSabre. Awesome, I can't stop laughing!
Why is anyone surprised here?
Here in America and everwhere else $$$$$$$ is really your freedom!
Without it we couldn't go anywhere or get out of messy situations.
This is another example of some rich guy,maybe knowing someone in the courts, and basically laughing at the law!
But honestly to anyone reading, do you think a couple of G's would make all of this go away?