Floyd Mayweather may get mere two days in slammer

PHOTO: Floyd Mayweather Sr., Mike Tyson with young Floyd after 1999 Tyson workout in Las Vegas (Exclusive photo by Michael Brennan)

Embattled Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. is not going to get the maximum 34 years in prison.

Mayweather will not be bunking in medium security lockup at Lovelock and hanging out with OJ Simpson, either.

In fact, despite the scary headlines, I would not be surprised if Mayweather does not spend any more than another 48 hours in jail...if that.

His lawyers, Karen Winckler and Richard Wright, have represented the fighter before. And they've been faced with the same complainant, Baby Mama Josie Harris.

One such misconception many people have is that Harris can summarily "drop" the charges.

That's not correct.

What Ms. Harris can do, and what she did in a 2003 case that went to trial in 2005 involving Mayweather, is to flip her script.

Butter wouldn't melt in Harris' mouth, much to the chagrin of the Clark County DA's office, when she testified in 2005. From the stand, under oath, she likened Mayweather to a cuddly "teddy bear" and said she knew he would "never lay a hand" on her.

There's no much that can be done to Harris if she recants or becames "a hostile witness" insofar as the prosecution is concerned. No judge is going to hold a purportedly battered women in contempt for not testifying.

It's not like the movies when the "Mob rat" refuses to sing for his supper.

Mayweather has the option at his Nov. 9 arraignment or anytime pretrial to plead guilty or nolo contendere (no contest) to some or all of the charges. To garner such a plea, the DA might opt to drop some other charges.

On the misdemeanor domestic battery charge, where no weapon other than Floyd's hands were used and where Harris suffered no permanent injury, Floyd can only get between two and 180 days in the local hoosegow, a fine of a measly $1,000, 48 hours of community service and six months of counseling on how to keep from battering other people who are not wearing boxing gloves.

There are reasons both the 33 year old Floyd and Harris, age 30, might not want to push this to trial.
Besides any private financial considerations the fighter might make for her and their three children, I doubt either one wants to see nine year old Zion or 10 year old Koraun going through the trauma of testifying against their father.

I went out on the wrong limb in first backing Mayweather due to Harris' 2005 fliflop.

Now I think I am shimmying my way onto the right limb in predicting this case gets settled quickly and quietly.

I predict that Mayweather will enter a domestic batterer's diversion program.

I predict that Mayweather will accept some community service.

I can even see him recording an anti domestic violence TV spot and holding himself up to the community as Mr. Bad Example.

But jail time?

I bet Mayweather won't be in the slammer even for 30 days let alone six months.

Two days? Come on, Floyd can do that standing on his head.

(mlcmarley@aol.com)


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