Here's a little info about Keon Clark, your class act.
On September 20, 2007, he was sentenced in absentia in Champaign County to 30 months in prison for driving on a suspended license. He was not present at the sentencing, and an arrest warrant was issued for him.
[6] On October 11, 2007, he was sentenced to 30 months of prison in Vermillion County Circuit Court on a different charge, for not having a firearm owner's identification card and for possessing drugs.
[7] The State's Attorney office wants the sentences to be served consecutively.
[8] He was arrested on October 18, 2007 in
Splendora, Texas by the US Marshals.
[9] The prison term for his Vermillion County conviction was thrown out and new sentencing hearing was scheduled in December 2007. During the hearing, Clark has said he is an alcoholic and "never played in an NBA game sober", drinking alcohol at halftime break of games. He also claimed he was getting help for his alcoholism in rehab in Texas.
[10] On December 29, 2007 he started serving his Champaign County sentence, and his Vermillion County trial has been scheduled for March 2008.
[11] He was found guilty on the Vermillion County charge in May 2008 and can receive an extra year in jail. He still faces other charges, including disorderly conduct for filing a false police report in January 2007; criminal damage to property over $300 in September; and three counts of aggravated driving after suspension stemming from two incidents in March 2007 and one in July.
[12] Yet another trial that he was supposed to attend in Vermillion County in August 2008 had to be postponed because he was in prison in Indiana at the time of the trial due to probation violations.
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