{"id":407607,"date":"2015-10-16T15:50:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T20:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=407607"},"modified":"2015-10-18T15:44:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T20:44:40","slug":"former-ut-footballer-from-athens-acquitted-of-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=407607","title":{"rendered":"Former UT Footballer from Athens Acquitted of Sexual Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/07\/image_handler.aspx_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/07\/image_handler.aspx_.jpg\" alt=\"image_handler.aspx\" width=\"105\" height=\"145\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-308420\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) &#8211; A former University of Texas football player who&#8217;s an Athens native has been acquitted of sexual assault of a female student in a campus dorm room.  Kendall Sanders was kicked off the Longhorns after he and teammate Montrel Meander were arrested in July 2014.   A jury of eight men and four women deliberated for more than four hours Thursday and Friday before delivering its verdict, the Austin American-Statesman reported. Sanders had faced two to 20 years in prison if convicted.   In closing arguments, Sanders&#8217; attorney said the accuser gave more than 30 inconsistent statements, including initially telling investigators that Sanders stopped having sex with her when she told him to.   Meander still faces a felony sex assault charge from the alleged attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) &#8211; A former University of Texas football player who&#8217;s an Athens native has been acquitted of sexual assault of a female student in a campus dorm room. Kendall Sanders was kicked off the Longhorns after he and teammate Montrel Meander were arrested in July 2014. A jury of eight men and four women &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=407607\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former UT Footballer from Athens Acquitted of Sexual Assault<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 20:55:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407609,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407607\/revisions\/407609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}