Sports author Jim Dent gets three more years in prison - Dallas Morning News
The author of such books as Twelve Mighty Orphans and Courage Beyond the Game agreed to a plea deal late last month with Williamson County prosecutors over a 2012 arrest for driving while intoxicated. The deal calls for a three-year prison sentence to be stacked on top of the 10-year sentence he received earlier this year for felony DWI in Collin County. As part of the plea deal, Williamson County prosecutors dropped a felony charge of bail jumping and failure to appear. Dent remains in the Williamson County Jail awaiting transfer back to state prison. Stephen Edwards was appointed defense counsel after the court approved an affidavit for indigency for Dent, who once lived a celebrity lifestyle, rubbing shoulders with Texas sports greats and making appearances in person and in the media to... a part of Texas football lore history,” said Edwards, who had meant to get his client to sign copies of his books but didn’t. “He was wanting to get back to the penitentiary as quick as he could,” Edwards said, adding that it had something to do with the prison unit Dent was in. “He basically was just saying, ‘I want to get this over with and get to the rest of my life’”. The sentencing is the latest of Dent’s legal troubles, which span more than three decades and include more than a dozen arrests, mostly for drunken driving. Source: www.dallasnews.com
