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Judge Has Change Of Heart In Former High School Standout’s Case

A Waco district court judge had a change of heart Monday about a plea deal he earlier rejected in the case of a former Central Texas high school football standout charged in an apartment burglary.
Reporter: By Eli Ross, KWTX.com

WACO (August 30, 2010)—After rejecting a plea deal in July between prosecutors and former La Vega High School running back Christopher Dantae Parr, State District Judge Ralph Strother had a change of heart Monday and accepted Parr’s guilty plea to burglary of a habitation and sentenced Parr to five years adjudicated probation.

That means that if Parr complies with the terms of probation, the conviction will be erased from his record.

Parr originally pleaded guilty in May, but withdrew the plea after Strother rejected the plea deal earlier this summer.

Parr was arrested in January 2009 at school in connection with an apartment burglary in the 800 block of Rambler in Waco in which shoes, jewelry, electronics and a pistol were taken.

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