{"id":133353,"date":"2024-04-22T10:58:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133353"},"modified":"2024-04-22T10:58:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:58:33","slug":"judge-rules-grizzlies-ja-morant-acted-in-self-defense-against-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133353","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rules Grizzlies&#8217; Ja Morant Acted In Self-Defense Against Teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-133357\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Ja-Morant-030423-2000-cac12aa0c02f4344a9ea23108177cc57-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Ja-Morant-030423-2000-cac12aa0c02f4344a9ea23108177cc57-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Ja-Morant-030423-2000-cac12aa0c02f4344a9ea23108177cc57-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Ja-Morant-030423-2000-cac12aa0c02f4344a9ea23108177cc57-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Ja-Morant-030423-2000-cac12aa0c02f4344a9ea23108177cc57.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ja Morant\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a win for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4279888\/ja-morant\">Ja Morant<\/a>, a Tennessee judge ruled Monday that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mem\/memphis-grizzlies\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>\u00a0superstar fairly raised self-defense in a lawsuit filed by a teenager he punched in July 2022, according to a court filing obtained by ESPN.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ruling comes after a December 2023 civil immunity hearing in Memphis, where Morant testified that he &#8220;swung first&#8221; at Joshua Holloway, then 17, to protect himself during an altercation that led to Holloway filing a September 2022 lawsuit accusing Morant of assault.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The altercation came about during a pickup basketball game. Holloway, allegedly frustrated by losing several games, was accused of throwing a one-handed pass at Morant during a check-ball situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ball hit Morant in the face, after which Morant said Holloway took a step toward him and that he then stepped forward and punched Holloway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After that blow, Morant&#8217;s friend, Davonte Pack, punched Holloway &#8212; an act for which Pack was later arrested for misdemeanor assault. The charge against Pack was later dismissed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1col<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ja Morant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Ja Morant\u00a0 In a win for\u00a0Ja Morant, a Tennessee judge ruled Monday that the\u00a0Memphis Grizzlies\u00a0superstar fairly raised self-defense in a lawsuit filed by a teenager he punched in July 2022, according to a court filing obtained by ESPN. The ruling comes after a December 2023 civil immunity hearing in Memphis, where Morant testified that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133360,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133353\/revisions\/133360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}