Roger Mayweather pleads not guilty in assault case (AP)

By on January 28th, 2010

FILE - This May 18, 2009, file photo shows Roger Mayweather speaking during a news conference in Los Angeles about a boxing bout in Las Vegas between Juan Manuel Marquez and Mayweather's nephew, Floyd Mayweather Jr. A judge in Las Vegas says boxing trainer Roger Mayweather should stand trial on three felony charges alleging he attacked a female boxer he used to train. The woman, 26-year-old Melissa St. Vil, testified Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, that the 48-year-old Mayweather punched and choked her during an Aug. 2 confrontation at an apartment he owned.

Boxing trainer Roger Mayweather pleaded not guilty on Thursday to felony charges that he beat and choked a female boxer at an apartment he owned last August. A judge set trial for June 1 on coercion, battery-strangulation and battery causing substantial bodily harm charges that carry the possibility of three to 16 years in prison.

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