 Former boxing champ Tyson faces August trial over drug charges | |
Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was on Thursday ordered to stand trial in August following his arrest last year on drug possession charges.
Tyson was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona, last December when he was pulled over by police after leaving a nightclub. Police found cocaine in his pocket and in his car, according to Maricopa County Superior Court officials.
In late January, the troubled boxer who once styled himself the "baddest man on the planet" pleaded not guilty to felony drug possession charges and two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of drugs.
Prosecutors have said they plan to seek the maximum prison sentence of seven-and-a-half years if Tyson is convicted on all charges, a spokesman said.
Tyson served three years of a six-year sentence after his 1992 conviction for the rape of a beauty queen in an Indianopolis hotel room.
He was also convicted of assaulting two motorists in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1999 and served nine months of a year-long sentence. |