By Cara McCoy, Las Vegas Sun
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.
Source: lasvegassun.com
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