NEW YORK (AP) -Prosecutors say former NBA star Jayson Williams had a blood-alcohol level more than double the legal limit after he crashed his SUV into a tree in Manhattan last month.
Newly filed court papers say his level was 0.19. In New York, the driving-while-intoxicated threshold is 0.08.
Williams has pleaded not guilty to drunken-driving charges in the Jan. 5 wreck. Defense lawyer Linda Kenney Baden says “there are a lot of issues” in contention, including whether he was driving. Prosecutors say surveillance video and witnesses establish that he was alone in the car.
Williams retired from the New Jersey Nets in 2000. He is due to be sentenced in New Jersey next week after pleading guilty to aggravated assault in the deadly accidental shooting of his chauffeur in 2002.
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