Felony cost in opposition to former Texas coach Chris Beard dropped two months following arrest

The home violence cost in opposition to former Texas basketball coach Chris Beard was dismissed Wednesday by the Travis County District Legal professional’s Workplace roughly two months after Beard was initially arrested and confronted with third-degree felony assault. Beard was fired for trigger in early January, lower than two weeks after his fiancée, Randi Trew, publicly recanted a few of the allegations detailed within the police report.

“After a cautious and thorough evaluate of the proof, latest public statements, and contemplating Ms. Trew’s needs, our workplace has decided that the felony offense can’t be confirmed past an affordable doubt,” the Travis County District Legal professional’s Workplace mentioned in a press release. 

Austin police mentioned they obtained a name at roughly 12:15 a.m. on Dec. 15 in regard to a disturbance name. Officers discovered a girl on the scene who mentioned she had been assaulted and strangled by Beard, who was booked into jail inside hours. By that night, he was suspended by the varsity with out pay.

Trew launched a press release every week later claiming to be the initiator of the of the altercation. Nevertheless, that was not sufficient to save lots of Beard’s job. In a written response to Beard’s lawyer, the college maintained that Beard “engaged in unacceptable conduct that makes him unfit to function head coach at our college.”

Beard, 49, loved a meteoric rise to the top of faculty basketball’s teaching ranks, which made his sudden fall all of the extra beautiful. He was in his second season at Texas, his alma mater, after a profitable five-year run at Texas Tech. Given his sturdy on-court observe report, Beard’s teaching future will probably be a subject of debate within the months to return as athletic administrators with teaching vacancies weigh the severity of the preliminary allegations in opposition to the fees in the end being dismissed.