Former Georgia football star Jalen Carter will avoid jail time after pleading no contest to misdemeanor charges of street racing and reckless driving in connection with a fatal wreck in Athens on Jan. 15.
, Carter will be placed on probation for 12 months, fined $1,000, will serve 80 hours of community service and will have to attend a defensive driving course approved by the state. Carter was found to have been racing in his 2021 Jeep Trackhawk with a vehicle driven by Georgia recruiting staffer Chandler LeCroy in the moments before LeCroy crashed, killing her and Bulldogs offensive lineman Devin Willock and injuring two others.
Stephens also maintained that Carter did not cause the wreck, did not leave the scene without law-enforcement permission and that he was not under the influence of alcohol that night. LeCroy was found to be intoxicated at more than twice the legal blood-alcohol limit and traveling 104 mph at the time of the crash, which took place in the early-morning hours on a road connecting the Georgia campus to downtown Athens.
“If the investigation had determined otherwise,” Stephens said in the statement, “Mr. Carter would have been charged with the far more serious offenses of vehicular homicide and serious injury by vehicle under Georgia law, both felony offenses, and would have faced a lengthy prison sentence.” The incident happened several hours after the Georgia football team held an afternoon-long rally on campus celebrating its second consecutive national championship. LeCroy was driving a 2021 Ford Expedition leased by the Georgia athletic department, though UGA officials have maintained she was not performing athletic department duties at the time.
Carter was not initially connected to the wreck, which also injured Bulldogs offensive lineman Warren McClendon and recruiting staffer Tory Bowles. Carter and McClendon have since declared for the NFL draft, with Carter initially projected as a Top 5 prospect — if not the No. 1 overall pick.
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