LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas decide ordered former Raiders receiver Henry Ruggs III to seem earlier than her on Monday after studying he missed a required alcohol check whereas on home arrest following a deadly crash he is accused of inflicting by driving drunk at speeds as much as 156 mph.
Ruggs’ legal professionals instructed magistrate Suzan Baucum that Ruggs “self-tested” unfavourable shortly after lacking one in all his requires a breath check final week.
Ruggs’ legal professional, David Chesnoff, blamed the delay on bother with testing gear.
Ruggs, 22, was not in courtroom for the temporary listening to Wednesday throughout which Baucum additionally instructed his legal professionals she will not concern a subpoena for fireplace division information concerning the deadly Nov. 2 crash and fireplace. The decide mentioned the attorneys can get these information on their very own.
Ruggs might face a return to jail. A decide who set his bail at $150,000 warned Ruggs instantly that if he did not adjust to launch restrictions he confronted re-arrest.
Ruggs is underneath house confinement with digital monitoring and four-times-a-day alcohol checks. He’s required to answer a phone or textual content sign by blowing into a tool that checks his blood-alcohol stage. Data present he owns a $1.1 million house not removed from the place the crash occurred.
Prosecutors have mentioned Ruggs’ blood-alcohol stage after the crash was 0.16%, twice the authorized restrict for drivers in Nevada.
Authorities mentioned he and his girlfriend, Kiara Je’nai Kilgo-Washington, have been injured when Ruggs’ Chevrolet Corvette slammed into the rear of Tina Tintor’s Toyota Rav4, rupturing that car’s gas tank.
His legal professionals have mentioned in courtroom filings {that a} witness instructed them firefighters have been sluggish to extinguish flames They haven’t recognized the witness.
Different witnesses instructed police they heard screams and tried to rescue Tintor, 23, and her canine however have been turned again by warmth, flames and smoke.
A Clark County spokesman has mentioned there have been no delays within the firefighting response or the assault on the hearth.
Baucum has set a Dec. 16 preliminary listening to of proof on two felony expenses of driving underneath the affect inflicting demise or critical damage. Every cost carries two years of obligatory jail time for a conviction, and as a lot as 20 years every.
Ruggs additionally faces two felony reckless driving counts and a misdemeanor weapon cost after police mentioned a loaded handgun was present in his wrecked sports activities automobile.
Prosecutors mentioned Ruggs suffered a leg damage and Washington underwent surgical procedure for an arm damage.
Chesnoff and legal professional Richard Schonfeld are preventing individually to dam prosecutors from accessing Ruggs’ medical information, and an legal professional for Washington has launched an analogous effort on her behalf. A Dec. 8 listening to is scheduled.
The Raiders made Ruggs their first choose within the 2020 NFL draft from Alabama, the place he helped the Crimson Tide win the 2017 NCAA championship.