Judge rules Ja Morant acted in self-defense in assault case

In a win for Ja Morant, a Tennessee judge ruled Monday that the Memphis Grizzlies superstar fairly acted in self-defense when he punched a teenager at his home in July 2022, in response to a court docket submitting obtained by ESPN. The ruling comes after a December 2023 civil immunity listening to in Memphis, the place Morant testified that he “swung first” at Joshua Holloway, then 17, “to guard myself” throughout an altercation that led to Holloway submitting a September 2022 lawsuit accusing Morant of assault.
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