MIAMI — Former NFL star wide receiver Antonio Brown’s court hearing where he was expected to accept a plea deal and avoid prison time in an attempted murder case was postponed Wednesday.
\n\nBrown arrived in a Miami courtroom Wednesday morning and was ready to plead no contest to aggravated assault and be sentenced to probation, his lawyer said. But a Florida judge said she was in the middle of another trial and not ready to go forward. The hearing was pushed back to Oct. 28.
\n\nBrown is accused of grabbing a handgun from a security staffer after a celebrity boxing match in Miami on May 16, 2025, and firing two shots at a man he had been in a fistfight with earlier, according to an arrest warrant. Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu told investigators one of the bullets grazed his neck.
\n\nDefense attorney Mark Eiglarsh said Brown was looking forward to putting the case behind him. Eiglarsh said the plea deal offered by prosecutors was too good to turn down and that it says Brown would not be considered a convicted felon.
\n\n“It’s a setback because it’s another month that my client has an ankle monitor on and doesn’t have closure, which…
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