Denver Post
A day after Broncos wide receiver Brandon Marshall and his attorney publicly claimed that his March 6 arrest was the result of a "shakedown," his former girlfriend's attorney fired back.
"His story that he has been a victim is as pathetic as the story that he slipped on a McDonald's bag and injured his arm," David McGill, one of the two attorneys representing Rasheedah Watley, said Thursday night. "Hopefully, he will be as eager to tell his story in a court of law, under oath, as he has been in the media."
Shortly after his March 22 accident, Marshall told reporters he slipped on a fast-food wrapper and crashed into a television set, seriously injuring his right arm. He later said he was actually roughhousing with his brother when
Wednesday, the day after his March 6 arrest in Atlanta on a misdemeanor battery charge became public, Marshall and his attorney, Harvey Steinberg, told several media outlets that there was not a physical altercation between Marshall and Watley on March 4 at his downtown Atlanta condominium.
According to an Atlanta Police Department report, Watley told police Marshall "threw her on the bed, grasped her head with his hand and began to slap her."
Marshall's hand was cut the same night. He told police he was attacked by two of Watley's sisters and had been "cut on glass during the fight." Marshall refused treatment for the injury and left the scene.
"We find it disturbing Mr. Marshall has denied physically abusing this young lady," McGill said Thursday. "We have plenty of evidence to corroborate the history of physical abuse."
A day after Broncos wide receiver Brandon Marshall and his attorney publicly claimed that his March 6 arrest was the result of a "shakedown," his former girlfriend's attorney fired back.
"His story that he has been a victim is as pathetic as the story that he slipped on a McDonald's bag and injured his arm," David McGill, one of the two attorneys representing Rasheedah Watley, said Thursday night. "Hopefully, he will be as eager to tell his story in a court of law, under oath, as he has been in the media."
Shortly after his March 22 accident, Marshall told reporters he slipped on a fast-food wrapper and crashed into a television set, seriously injuring his right arm. He later said he was actually roughhousing with his brother when
Wednesday, the day after his March 6 arrest in Atlanta on a misdemeanor battery charge became public, Marshall and his attorney, Harvey Steinberg, told several media outlets that there was not a physical altercation between Marshall and Watley on March 4 at his downtown Atlanta condominium.
According to an Atlanta Police Department report, Watley told police Marshall "threw her on the bed, grasped her head with his hand and began to slap her."
Marshall's hand was cut the same night. He told police he was attacked by two of Watley's sisters and had been "cut on glass during the fight." Marshall refused treatment for the injury and left the scene.
"We find it disturbing Mr. Marshall has denied physically abusing this young lady," McGill said Thursday. "We have plenty of evidence to corroborate the history of physical abuse."
