Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers acquitted in assault trial

A jury acquitted New England Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers on Friday in his assault and battery trial.

BOSTON — A jury acquitted New England Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers on Friday in his assault and battery trial.

Peppers finished testifying earlier Friday by denying he choked or shoved his accuser. Peppers, who first took the witness stand on Thursday, had been on trial this week on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

A woman testified Thursday that Peppers grabbed her by the neck, slammed her against the wall and pushed her down the stairs after another man called her cellphone several times while they were in bed.

Peppers said from the stand that he told police that he believed “she was trying to do all this to mess up my career,” The Boston Globe reported.

Along with the woman’s testimony, prosecutors showed several videos of the incident, in which Peppers can be seen asking the naked woman to repeatedly leave his house in Braintree, Massachusetts. The woman said Peppers was filming her and taunting her, as she tried to get her belongings and depart after the alleged assault.

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