Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. is currently serving a three-month sentence in a Las Vegas prison after he attacked his ex-girlfriend in front of their two children. Now the boxers lawyers are asking for his release, fearing that conditions at the prison may end Mayweather’s boxing career.
In a motion to the court the boxing champions lawyers ask that Mayweather be placed on house arrest inside his massive Las Vegas mansion. His lawyers argue that being confined to a jail cell 23 hours per day is causing harm to the boxers physique, damage that may not be reversible once he is finally released.
Mayweather Jr. Lawyer Richard Wright tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he filed an emergency motion on Monday. In the motion his lawyers argue that the boxer has been given a restricted workout schedule because they fear putting him in with the general population could be harmful to his health because of his celebrity. Prisoners have been known to lash out against celebrities in order to make a name for themselves while behind bars.
In the motion Wright quotes the boxer’s own doctors who say damage caused to his physique at his age could lead to irreversible damage.
Jail officials have not yet commented on the request or offered any insight into Floyd Mayweather Jr’s time spent in jail.
Do you think Mayweather Jr. should be allowed to go on house arrest or should his violent actions force him to face future consequences because of his crime?
I say NO! Leave him there. This is why people figure they can act any old way and get away with it. "Being in prison may cause harm to his body and he may not be able to get in shape again".. ummm.. brotha? Should have thought of that BEFORE you became a woman beater. Its like Dad always used to say… if you didn't think of all the consequences before you did what you did, too bad, now you get to pay for it.
What's my cusin doing?
Well said mate, couldn't agree with u anymore
no sympathy for any man who attacks a woman or a woman who attacks a man. Domestic violence is out of control in America and it needs to be taken seriously.
In this case, a world champion professional boxer, with lethal skills, assaulted a woman in front of their children. If I was the judge, he would be doing 5 years, not 3 months. shame on him. Do your time Floyd and stop whining.
Chapman Latoya. Hey girl, I am around. I just got a break from school before I start my fall semester. I am looking forward to the classes that I am taking this time around. Raising the kids, and keeping house, how about you?