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Commanders linebacker Jamin Davis pleads guilty to reckless driving

Jamin Davis resolves case, avoids jail time.

Washington Commanders linebacker Jamin Davis was scheduled to face a jury trial in Loudoun County (Va.) Circuit Court on Monday for a misdemeanor reckless driving charge. However, Davis’ attorney, Mark Dycio, resolved the matter on Friday, allowing Davis to avoid jail time.

Davis received 180 days of jail time, with all of it suspended. He will lose his driver’s license for six months and must pay a $2,500 fine plus court costs.

Davis was first charged with reckless driving in Dec. 2021 after going 89 mph in a 65 mph zone. In March 2022, Davis was arrested and charged with reckless driving after being clocked at 114 mph in a 45 mph zone.

He was later convicted of reckless driving and sentenced to 30 days in jail. Davis appealed the ruling, and last July reached an agreement where he would serve eight days in jail. However, the judge deemed the penalty too lenient leading to another agreement that was also rejected.

Davis, 25, was a first-round pick in the 2021 NFL draft and has played 45 games with 36 starts. He has 269 tackles, including 20 for loss, seven sacks and an interception. Davis has continued to improve in each of his three NFL seasons.

Judge rejects Jamin Davis’ revised plea over reckless driving conviction

Davis will be back in court on Aug. 31.

Washington Commanders linebacker Jamin Davis was back in a Loudoun County courthouse Thursday to accept a revised plea bargain on his reckless driving conviction.

However, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge James E. Plowman Jr. would not consider the plea because it wasn’t “substantially and materially different” from the last one, per Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post.

A new hearing is set for Aug. 31.

In the revised plea, Davis would serve a maximum of eight days in jail with a minimum of four days served. Here were the full terms of the revised plea deal per Jhabvala:

Davis’s plea agreement reached Thursday included a maximum of eight days of jail with a minimum of four days actually served. It also included a supervised probation that could be extended beyond 12 months, a six-month mandatory suspended license with no ensuing restrictions, a maximum $2,500 fine, 114 hours of community service, the possibility of another four-hour driving course in Loudoun County (he already completed an eight-hour course) and a written essay on reckless driving that Davis would post on his social media accounts.

 

Judge rejects Commanders LB Jamin Davis plea bargain in reckless driving case

Jamin Davis missed practice Monday.

Washington Commanders linebacker Jamin Davis could face possible jail time after a Loudoun County judge rejected his guilty plea Monday from a reckless driving incident in March 2022.

On March 28, 2022, Davis was cited for driving 114 mph in a 45 mph zone in Loudoun County. He pleaded not guilty in Loudoun County District Court to reckless driving — which is speeding more than 20 miles above the limit, in excess of 85 mph — but the courts found him guilty, per Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post.

He was sentenced to 30 days in jail, a fine and had his driver’s license suspended. Davis had originally requested a jury trial to appeal the conviction but later accepted a plea deal that would require a maximum of eight days in jail.

However, on Monday, the judge rejected the plea, and Davis is set for a scheduling conference on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET.

The judge rejected Davis’ plea because the area in which Davis was speeding is a heavily trafficked area. In addition, the judge cited Davis’ “not terrible but not clean” record.

Davis had previously been charged with reckless driving on Dec. 19, 2021, after driving 89 mph in a 65 mph zone. However, it was reduced to 84 mph, and Davis paid a $150 fine.

Head coach Ron Rivera said the following about Davis after his press conference Monday.

“He’s going through the legal process, and as he goes through it, we just got to be here and be supportive of him and understand that this is the legal process that he has to go through,” Rivera said.

The Commanders are back on the practice field Tuesday for Day 6 of training camp.

With Snyder out, does Loudoun County already want new Commanders stadium?

Is Loudoun County back on the table for a potential new stadium for the Commanders?

With Daniel Snyder’s sale of the Commanders to be soon finalized, the Commanders already have Loudoun County declaring interest in a new Commanders stadium.

Snyder, you recall, for the last several years, ran into obstacle after obstacle of local governments not wanting to do business with him. Thus a new stadium never materialized.

With a group led by Josh Harris ready to purchase the Commanders for $6 billion, Loudoun County is the first to publicly declare they want the stadium.

“We look forward to welcoming the Washington Commanders to the Loudoun County Board Room to share their vision of a new stadium as part of a multi-use development in an urban setting,” Matt Rogers wrote in a statement to the Times-Mirror on April 15.

The site in mind is a portion of the Chantilly Crushed Stone quarry property planned for the Waterside mixed-use development.

But of course, other voices in Loudoun have already responded negatively to the idea of the Commanders’ stadium bringing the excess traffic to the county.

Supervisor Tony Buffington, R-Blue Ridge, has in the past openly been opposed to the stadium idea for Loudoun County. He has voiced it would increase traffic and crime. He reiterated that opposition in a Facebook post on April 16, according to Coy Ferrell of the Loudoun Times.

Yet, Del. David Reid, D-32nd, has already replied he feels strongly Loudoun County would be the best of the three locations suggested and investigated last year by the state because of its proximity to the Metrorail and the airport. “The fact that this would be on the far eastern end of the county, I think the traffic impact would be minimal,” he said.

“We have the opportunity, if we just look at it from the Loudoun perspective to diversity the Loudoun economy from being so dependent on data centers,” emphasizing that the stadium complex is “intended to be a 365-day kind of [development] — much like One Loudoun.” And since the stadium could spur a significant number of visitors to Loudoun, it could be good for the western Loudoun economy as well,” he said.

Might the most significant aspect of the story be that not even 48 hours after the breaking of the news that Snyder has agreed in principle with Josh Harris to sell the Commanders, some Loudoun County officials are already voicing their desire for the stadium to be built in Loudoun?

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