Thursday, February 2, 2012

Two players enter not guilty pleas to battery charges

By on August 21, 2008

Two Georgia football players accused of misdemeanor battery during a June incident entered not guilty pleas this morning in Athens Clarke County State Court.

A woman alleged that Trinton Sturivant and Justin Anderson “touched her person without her consent” in the breezeway of East Campus Village, according to a University Police incident report.

Two affidavits filed with the ACC Court stated the two “did intentionally make physical contact of an insulting nature with (the alleged victim), who he does not know, when he approached her and touched her stomach.”

Both were placed on probation by the University after engaging in disorderly conduct when they “touched a woman on her stomach without consent” that “made her feel uncomfortable.”

Georgia head coach Mark Richt decided not to suspend Sturdivant and Anderson from any games this season. Sturdivant injured his knee last week and is out for the season.