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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 19, 1991
Soccer star gets suspended sentence on drug charges
The Associated Press
NAPLES, Italy — Soccer star Diego Maradona was given a 14-month suspended sentence on cocaine possession charges Tuesday. Maradona's lawyer said.
The sentence was handed down after the lawyer reached a plea-bargain with the prosecution at Maradona's trial.
A fine of $3,200 also was suspended,
defense attorney Vincenzo Siniscalchi
said.
Mardarona, star forward of the Napoli team, is under a 15-month suspension from professional soccer after being charged with a burglary Marchafter an Italian league match.
The trial on criminal charges began June 6, but was postponed twice after the defense said Maradona, who pleaded guilty in April, was unable to appear in court.
When the session resumed yesterday, Siniscalchi asked for another postponement on grounds that Maradona could not leave Argentina because of legal proceedings against him there following an arrest on
cocaine possession charges. But the courtrejected the request.
"It is our position that he could not adequately defend himself," Sinis calculi said.
In Italy, a defendant is not obliged to attend trial and can be tried while absent.
At that point, the lawyer said he agreed to the plea bargain under Italy's new penal code, allowing reduced sentences for not contesting charges. But he said he would seek a new trial.
The Italian charges stemmed from a police investigation which included wristraping of telephone conversations between suspects in an alleged Naples drug ring and prostitution operation.
Maradona was indicted after police said his name was mentioned in conversations and after some women investigators he gave them cocaine.
Two Italian co-defendants in the Naples case made plea bargains with the prosecution and received suspended sentences of 17 months each.
Braves try to keep pace in West while coping with loss of Nixon
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — The Atlanta Braves say they'll keep winning without Otis Nixon. So far, they haven't. And now they're out of first place in the National League West.
After winning two of the three games against the Los Angeles Dodgers over weekend, the Braves lost Nixon, a 297 hit and the NIU's leading base stealer with 72 to 60-day drug suspension. They then lost two games to the fourth-place Wildcats, divided them one-half game behind the Dodgers in the NIU West.
After a two-game series against the San Diego Padres that started last night, the Braves will play three games at Los Angeles this weekend.
The Braves can't do anything about losing Nixon, third baseman Terry Pendleton said yesterday. But he said he would do something about the losing streak.
"We've got to continue to play. That's all I'll say." Pendleton said. "We can't control it, only what goes on in the field. I just don't want to discuss it. In the past, when we needed help, Jonnie Smith and Keth Miltick filled in."
Pendleton said the Braves weren't distracted after Nixon was suspended. He said the losses to the Giants were night and poor hitting Tuesday night.
"Everybody wanted to start off the trip well and go 7-0. We've got to continue to battle every day. We're not thinking about L.A. We've got to play these games. If we don't stop (the losing streak), we'll be 21/2 back."
From the front-office perspective,
general manager John Schuerholz said it was hard to assess how the Nixon suspension affected the team.
"I don't know if they tried harder or were distracted," Schuerholz said. "We've lost some key players to injuries. That's not the same (as Nixon's suspension), but the team responded." They had them, and they have gone through the loss of some key players, and then played effectively."
First baseman Sid Bream said the Braves weren't feeling any extra pressure.
"It it's something you want to see, but we've gone through this thing before," Brea said. "These games aren't the end of it all, by far. If the Doggers go out and win every game, they'll earn credit. If I blow the will do that."
"We did a fine job in Atlanta focusing on the day-to-day things before last weekend's series. Those three games were not the end of the world. We played a lot of good teams before the final game, so start here again against the Padres."
Bream, Pendleton and a few other Braves have been through pennant races before, but most of their teammates haven't.
Still, Bream doesn't think the younger players will get distracted.
"We've got to get back to winning.
What are we here to focus on?" he said.
Pendleton said he thought the younger players were handling the pennant pressure well, and that he hadn't had to give any peep talks since a five-game losing streak in June, the team's longest this season.
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