Colorado football defensive back Shilo Sanders has employed at least three attorneys in three different time zones to help him get out of this mess – a bankruptcy case at age 24 with more than $11 million in debt.
In court filings, they’ve called it a “nearly decade-long saga to destroy a young man’s life.” But now as it prepares to heat up in court this summer, the case largely has been distilled into a dispute that centers on a single incident nine years ago when Shilo was just 15 years old:
Did Shilo Sanders cause permanent injuries to John Darjean, a security guard at his high school in 2015?
Or were those injuries pre-existing, including those that led to a previous spinal surgery for Darjean in 2014?
That’s one of the biggest questions in a strange case involving a high-profile college football player (Sanders) with a wealthy coach and father (Deion Sanders), who once dismissed the allegations against his son as false but since has seen them spiral into a bankruptcy filing by Shilo last October.
The goal for Shilo Sanders is to get that $11 million debt discharged in bankruptcy court instead of having it burden him after he moves on from college. Whether the court allows that comes down to that incident and whether Sanders acted “willfully and maliciously” then at age 15, according to a court filing by his attorneys.
“The only two narrow issues in dispute in this action are (i) whether the `injury’ claimed by Plaintiff (Darjean) arose from the alleged assault litigated in the trial court; and (ii) whether (Darjean) has met his burden under … the Bankruptcy Code by proving (Sanders) acted `willfully and maliciously’ with respect to that alleged injury,” Sanders’ attorney wrote in a court filing April 24.
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Author : USA TODAY Sports
Publish date : 2024-06-11 10:23:38
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