UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones entered a plea of not responsible on Wednesday, showing nearly for Bernalillo County Metropolitan Courtroom (alongside legal professional Christopher Dodd) to reply for a pair of misdemeanor fees filed in opposition to him again in March.
“Bones” was launched on his personal recognizance and can return for a bench trial inside the subsequent two months, based on MMA Preventing.
That stated, the decide didn’t let Jones go scot-free, handing down a laundry record of pre-trial circumstances together with a ban on firearms (or different harmful weapons) in addition to restrictions on drug and alcohol use.
Jones routinely posts movies of his gun assortment and has beforehand admitted to drug and alcohol abuse. There was additionally that stint in rehab that didn’t cease the previous mild heavyweight kingpin from getting “black-out drunk” earlier than fights.
Right this moment’s court docket look was the results of Jones’ altercation with drug-testing brokers earlier this 12 months, although “Bones” insists the incident was blown method out of proportion and that police studies replicate a scenario that “merely didn’t happen.”
We’ll see if the decide agrees when Jones returns to court docket.
