UGA football star Jalen Carter pleads no contest to charges connected to deadly crash, learns punishment
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College football player Jalen Carter was sentenced to serve 12 months of probation after entering no contest pleas to misdemeanor charges tied to his involvement in a fatal January car crash that killed one of his teammates and a staff member, his attorney announced Thursday.
In addition to the year of probation, Carter's sentence requires him to pay a $1,000 fine, perform 80 hours of community service and complete a state-sanctioned driving course, attorney Kim Stephens said in a news release.
Carter, a defensive lineman for the University of Georgia's Bulldogs football team who was once a top prospect for the current NFL draft, turned himself into police in Athens — where the campus is located and where the deadly crash took place — shortly after authorities issued warrants for his arrest in early March.
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