NBA players Marcus and Markieff Morris acquitted of assault
PHOENIX — A Phoenix jury acquitted NBA players Marcus and Markieff Morris in their aggravated assault trial Tuesday.
The Morris brothers have been on trial for the past two weeks on charges that they helped three other people beat 36-year-old Erik Hood in January 2015 outside a high school basketball game in Phoenix.
At that time, the 28-year-old brothers played for the Phoenix Suns. Marcus now plays for the Boston Celtics and Markieff is with the Washington Wizards.
Defence attorneys Timothy Eckstein and James Belanger patted the brothers on the back as the verdict was read. The Morris twins hugged their attorneys after the jury was led out of the courtroom.