Judge dismisses lawsuit against Grizzlies’ Ja Morant stemming from fight with teenager during pickup game
A judge in Memphis, Tennessee, rejected a civil lawsuit against Memphis Gregs star Ja Morant on monday, According to Associated Press. The lawsuit stems from a quarrel in Morant’s house in July 2022, when Joshua Holway, who was 17 years old, claimed that Morant claimed that he punched him during the small basketball game.
Holway was at Morant’s home playing small basketball when the teenager examined the ball, and while my hands were Morant, he hit the Grizlies star on the chin. Holway claimed that Morant and his friend Davonte Pak had repeatedly hit Holway even after he fell to the ground. Pack was arrested on charges of assaulting the accident on the accident, but the charge was later refused.
Morant witnessed in December 2023 that he acted in self -defenseHolway said a basketball for him for the first time, she hit the Grizlies star in her face. In April 2024, a judge then decreased that Morant was “assumed by civil immunity”, under the Tennessee Law, saying that Moran’s claim of self -defense was reliable enough to transfer the burden of proof into Holway to prove that Morant was not behaving for self -defense, but he was somewhat accusing Holway.
Holway witnessed in January 2025, saying that Morant was the aggressor and that the Grizlies star used a “insulting force” when attacking him. However, Carol Chomni, the judge of the Shelby County Department, ruled on Monday that “Holway’s certificate was not reliable or consistent with the certificate of other witnesses.”
One of the testimonies of witnesses that carried weight in this ruling was previously The American Professional League Player Mike Miller Who was in Morant’s house during the quarrel time. In his testimony, Miller said that Holway is hitting Morant with basketball “all began.”
As a result, Chomni He ordered the lawsuit to file On Monday, the ruling was that Morant was already behaving in self -defense and was fortified with responsibility in the lawsuit.
“This court hopes sincerely that each of them is able to spend more of their time in” court “and less in the” court “.
He ends a lengthy ordeal in it Morant boycott HolwayIn claiming that he was a victim of slander, battery and assault. In Morant’s counters, he claimed that Holway, among other things, deliberately threw a basketball on his face, and walked strongly towards Morant with his grip as if he was about to hit him, and threatened to return to Morant’s house and lighting it “like fireworks” while he was leaving the police around the Venice.
The Morent Merit mode is unclear.
