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A trial for Green Bay Packers tight end Andrew Quarless on a gun charge stemming from a July incident in Miami Beach has been delayed again.
Quarless, who is out with an injured knee, was scheduled to go to trial this week on a misdemeanor charge of discharging a firearm in public.
The case was delayed for a third time but records indicate that will be the last one. The new trial date is Nov. 30, which is four days after Quarless is eligible to return to the field against the Chicago Bears on Thanksgiving night. Quarless was placed on the team’s “injured reserve/designated to return” list after spraining his knee against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Quarless’ attorney, Edward O’Donnell, said Tuesday he expects the case will be completed, one way or another, in the next month.
“I think this case will resolve in a very amicable way and if not, we’ll go to trial. We’ll see,” he said, declining to say how it might be resolved.
The charge resulted from an incident in which witnesses said Quarless fired a .45-caliber handgun in the air twice early in the morning on July 4 in South Beach. Quarless fired the gun during an argument with a woman, according to a police report.
After the shots were reported, police searched the area, found Quarless hiding and recovered the gun in a potted plant, according to the report.
O’Donnell said there was no threat made during the incident or Quarless would have been charged with a felony.
A spokeswoman with the State Attorney’s Office for Miami-Dade County declined to comment because it is an open case.
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Quarless, who is out with an injured knee, was scheduled to go to trial this week on a misdemeanor charge of discharging a firearm in public.
The case was delayed for a third time but records indicate that will be the last one. The new trial date is Nov. 30, which is four days after Quarless is eligible to return to the field against the Chicago Bears on Thanksgiving night. Quarless was placed on the team’s “injured reserve/designated to return” list after spraining his knee against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Quarless’ attorney, Edward O’Donnell, said Tuesday he expects the case will be completed, one way or another, in the next month.
“I think this case will resolve in a very amicable way and if not, we’ll go to trial. We’ll see,” he said, declining to say how it might be resolved.
The charge resulted from an incident in which witnesses said Quarless fired a .45-caliber handgun in the air twice early in the morning on July 4 in South Beach. Quarless fired the gun during an argument with a woman, according to a police report.
After the shots were reported, police searched the area, found Quarless hiding and recovered the gun in a potted plant, according to the report.
O’Donnell said there was no threat made during the incident or Quarless would have been charged with a felony.
A spokeswoman with the State Attorney’s Office for Miami-Dade County declined to comment because it is an open case.
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