Rice begged guilty to 2 felony costs in link with the 2024 accident on united state 75.
DALLAS– Kansas City Chiefs pass receiver Rashee Rice was punished Thursday about a multi-vehicle accident on united state 75 in Dallas in 2015.
The Dallas Area Area Lawyer’s workplace verified Rice begged guilty Thursday to accident including significant physical injury and auto racing on a freeway triggering physical injury– both felony costs.
Rice was punished to 5 years of delayed probation and thirty days of prison time as a problem of his probation, according to the Dallas Area Area Lawyer’s Workplace. Rice was likewise needed to pay restitution amounting to $115,481.91 to the targets of the accident for their clinical expenditures prior to the appeal.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Rice is most likely to get a multi-game suspension since he’s been punished. WFAA has actually connected to the Kansas City Chiefs and NFL for remark. The NFL offered WFAA the adhering to declaration:
” We have actually been very closely checking all advancements in the issue which continues to be under evaluation.”
Rice, in a declaration provided with his lawyer Royce West, stated he was “exceptionally sorry” for the problems brought on by the accident.
” Last March, I was associated with a high-speed crash in Dallas. There have actually been a great deal of sleep deprived evenings thinking of the problems that my activities created, and I will certainly proceed functioning within my ways to make certain that every person affected will certainly be made entire. I prompt every person to mind the rate limitation, drive secure and drive wise,” the declaration checked out. “Last and definitely not the very least, I am exceptionally sorry for the physical problems to individual and home. I completely excuse the injury I created to innocent vehicle drivers and their households.”
Officials stated Rice was speeding up in a Lamborghini on the left shoulder of the united state 75 when the car was struck by a Chevrolet Corvette that previous SMU cornerback Theodore “Teddy” Knox was driving. Knox had actually tried to relocate from the far-left lane right into the shoulder that Rice’s automobile inhabited, the record stated. The accident after that created Rice’s automobile to strike a facility mean wall surface and start a “counter clockwise turning,” which after that began the six-car accident, private investigators formerly stated.
Police stated both Rice’s Lamborghini and Knox’s Corvette were traversing 115 miles per hour right before the accident.
Rice transformed himself in to cops quickly after the accident and confessed to driving the Lamborghini.
Both Rice and Knox dealt with 8 felony costs in link to the accident– 6 matters of accident including physical injury, one matter of accident including significant physical injury, and one matter of worsened attack, according to the warrant. SMU put on hold Knox from the football group after the costs were submitted versus him.
The standing of Knox’s situation is uncertain.
Both Rice and Knox have actually been called in civil legal actions about the accident.
Rice’s sentencing follows a court Wednesday got Rice to pay among the targets in among the legal actions he deals with about the accident $1 million, plus $75,000 in pre-judgement passion. The lawyer standing for among the targets, Kathryn Kuykendall, sent out WFAA the adhering to declaration after the sentencing was introduced:
” To his debt, Rashee maintains stating the ideal points. And those people that were likewise when young and silly hope that he suggests them. Yet he’s not yet revealing that he does. Rather than obtaining a car loan to pay the $1 million negotiation he got to with my customer, he’s left her to have a hard time for greater than a year currently, and it appears that he prepares to allow her battle without repayment for at the very least an additional year. Undoubtedly, someone available still counts on Rashee sufficient to give him the financing if he asks. The concern is, does he rely on himself sufficient to ask?”
A local of North Richland Hills, Rice was a standout receiver for 4 periods at SMU prior to being picked by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2nd round with the No. 55 total area of the 2023 NFL Draft.
