Sherman gets deferred prosecution in DUI case

RENTON, Wash. -- Former Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman has received a deferred prosecution successful his ongoing DUI case, a spokesperson with the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office told ESPN.

A King County District Court justice connected Tuesday granted a petition by Sherman's lawyer for the deferred prosecution, which means a complaint is suspended successful speech for the suspect agreeing to conscionable definite tribunal requirements.

Under Washington State law, a suspect who requests a deferred prosecution indispensable authorities that their behaviour was the effect of a substance usage upset oregon a intelligence occupation and hold to 2 years of treatment. The tribunal does not proceed with charges if the presumption of the statement are met. If not, the tribunal uses a seat proceedings to find guilt.

In Washington, a deferred prosecution comes with a five-year probationary play and counts arsenic a anterior discourtesy successful aboriginal DUI prosecution.

Sherman was charged with DUI successful June successful transportation with a February 2024 arrest, erstwhile helium allegedly registered a humor intoxicant level of astir 0.11 -- supra the state's ineligible bounds of 0.08 - aft being pulled implicit for speeding.

As portion of a abstracted incident, helium pleaded blameworthy successful 2022 to negligent driving successful the archetypal grade and transgression trespass successful the 2nd degree. Those misdemeanor charges stemmed from a July 2021 incidental successful which helium allegedly drove his SUV into a closed operation site, fled the country and past attempted to interruption down the beforehand doorway of his in-laws' home.

Sherman, 37, made the Pro Bowl 5 times during an 11-year NFL vocation and was a subordinate of the famed Legion of Boom defence that helped the Seahawks triumph Super Bowl XLVIII. He past played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers successful 2011 and began moving arsenic an expert for Amazon Prime's broadcasts of Thursday nighttime NFL games successful 2022.