{"id":394107,"date":"2024-05-15T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=394107"},"modified":"2024-05-15T21:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T21:03:49","slug":"former-texas-high-school-football-player-who-once-tackled-referee-avoids-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=394107","title":{"rendered":"Former Texas high school football player who once tackled referee avoids jail time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valleycentral.com\/news\/local-news\/former-edinburg-football-player-avoids-prison-after-tackling-referee\/\">Texas high school football player<\/a> who once tackled a referee will not be heading to jail.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Duron, now 22 years old, pleaded no contest to a series of charges stemming from an incident that took place on Dec. 3, 2020. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valleycentral.com\/news\/local-news\/former-edinburg-football-player-avoids-prison-after-tackling-referee\/\">CBS 4 in Rio Grande Valley<\/a>, Duron received a &#8220;deferred adjudication, and will be ordered to serve one year of community supervision. During that time period, he is required to avoid places and people of harmful character, pay a fine and maintain employment, among other conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A senior defensive lineman at Edinburg High School (Edinburg, Texas) at the time of the incident, Duron was thrown out of a game against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/san-juan\/pharr-san-juan-alamo-bears\/football\/\">Pharr-San Juan-Alamo<\/a> (San Juan, Texas) for unsportsmanlike conduct.<\/p>\n<p>It was after that decision from referee Alfredo Gracia that Duron ran across the field at full steam. He proceeded to hit Gracia so hard that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2024\/05\/15\/former-south-texas-hs-football-player-who-tackled-referee-avoids-jail-sentence-pleads-no-contest\/\">referee immediately went to the turf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gracia filed a lawsuit two years later against the Rio Grande Texas Association of Sports Officials and the Southwest Officials Association. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/trellis.law\/doc\/174154368\/amended-petition\">lawsuit<\/a>, he cites &#8220;embarrassment, pain, and ongoing psychological and physical damage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Duron has other legal programs stemming from a February arrest for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valleycentral.com\/news\/local-news\/former-edinburg-football-player-accused-of-tackling-ref-faces-new-assault-allegations\/\">separate alleged assault<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A former Texas high school football player who once hit a referee avoids jail time.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394108,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394107\/revisions\/394108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}