LAS VEGAS—Former NFL cornerback Damon Arnette has pleaded not guilty in Nevada to felony charges and his lawyer is challenging his indictment alleging he displayed a handgun during an argument with Las Vegas Strip casino valets in January 2022.
“He never brandished a gun. He never pointed a gun,” defense attorney Ross Goodman said Thursday of Arnette.
The former player appeared in court Wednesday and remains free pending trial in October on assault with a deadly weapon and carrying a concealed firearm charges.
Prosecutor Jory Scarborough declined to comment.
Former NFL cornerback Damon Arnette appears in court for his arraignment at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
Arnette, 26, a first-round draft pick of the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020, played college football at Ohio State and lives in Boynton Beach, Florida….
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