LAS VEGAS (AP) — Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s uncle and trainer plans to take a plea deal to avoid trial and jail time in a Las Vegas domestic battery case.
Defense attorney Jack Buchanan tells The Associated Press that Roger Mayweather will plead no contest Thursday to two misdemeanor battery charges.
Buchanan says the agreement calls for Mayweather to get a one-year suspended jail sentence, serve one year probation, attend six months of domestic violence counseling, perform 50 hours of community service and pay a $1,000 fine.
Trial had been set Monday on felony battery charges alleging Mayweather attacked a female boxer he used to train in August 2009 at a Las Vegas apartment he owned.
Those charges carried the possibility of up to 10 years in prison.
