LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Oakland Raiders wide receiver Javon Walker told a Las Vegas jury he was very drunk but remembered a man grabbing his 2-carat diamond earrings while he was being robbed in a vehicle almost two years ago.
Walker was the first witness Wednesday in the kidnapping, battery and robbery trial of 42-year-old Deshawn Lamont Thomas.
Thomas faces multiple charges and the possibility of life in prison if convicted.
Prosecutors say Thomas and a 32-year-old co-defendant, Arfat Abdo Fadel, convinced the intoxicated Walker to get into their vehicle after he spent a night club-hopping in June 2008.
Walker was later found beaten, robbed and unconscious about a block off the Las Vegas Strip.
Fadel has pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
