Former Seahawks star cornerback pleaded not guilty in King County District Court.
Richard Sherman faces five misdemeanor charges for DUI and threatening to break into his father-in-law’s Redmond home.
He entered the courtroom holding his wife’s hand. In fact, they looked like just any another loving couple.
But what was visible in court belies the 911 calls Ashley Sherman made pleading for help.
Richard and Ashley Sherman were hand in hand, as he likely took the longest walk of his 33 years, down the hallway of the King County courthouse.
But if so, he wasn’t letting it show.
When asked for a comment, he said, “I’m just having a blessed day. You know how that goes.”
Sherman was in King County district courtroom 326 to answer for what was captured on surveillance video.
It happened during the early morning hours of Wednesday when he allegedly drove drunk past a traffic barrier on State Route 520 then tried to break into his father-in-law’s Redmond home.
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Now he faces five misdemeanors: two domestic violence charges involving his father-in-law, drunk driving, reckless endangerment of roadway workers and resisting arrest.
It is an unlikely fall from grace for a man once revered for his exploits on the gridiron as a Super Bowl winning cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks.
And it in stands in marked contrast to man shown in this surveillance video. The chaos of that night plain to hear in his wife’s frantic 9-1-1 call.
“I need officers here now,” she demanded.
“What’s he doing that you think he’s going to harm himself?” asked the 911 operator.
“He’s being, he’s being, he’s being aggressive,” Ashley Sherman said. “He has sent text messages.”
The judge agreed that Sherman can remain free while his case proceeds. But she ordered him not to have contact with two main witnesses nor with his father-in-law.
He is allowed contact with his wife. He was asked if their difficulties had passed?
“No, there was no difficulty with my wife,” said Sherman. “There never has been. And I’m just grateful for the support, like I said.”
And with that they got onto an elevator and left the courthouse.
The next hearing for Richard Sherman will be on Aug. 13 in the King County District Court in Redmond.
It is a pre-trial hearing, so he doesn’t have to show up.
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