Ray Rice will avoid jail time for striking his then-fiancée, now wife, Janay Palmer in an elevator, knocking her to the ground in an Atlantic City casino.
Domestic violence charge against former @Ravens star #RayRice dismissed today after he completed pretrial intervention
— Aaron Katersky (@AaronKatersky) May 21, 2015
The former Ravens running back was charged with felony aggravated assault, but in May he was accepted into a pretrial intervention program. Rice completed that program and a judge told ABC News he would sign the dismissal order Thursday.
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The program is targeted toward first-time offenders who meet certain conditions.
Rice was suspended by the NFL following his actions, and eventually released by the Ravens. He has not signed with a team and there hasn't been much chatter of a team being interested in his services.