Witnesses changed their stories. Evidence is missing. Now Shilo Sanders awaits verdict

DENVER – The five-day bankruptcy court trial of Deion Sanders’ son Shilo ended here Friday, Sept. 4, with $12 million still at stake for each side, no verdict (yet) and one side accusing Shilo Sanders of never accepting responsibility for what he allegedly did in 2015.

Both sides also accused the other of making “no sense” in their closing arguments, leaving Judge Michael E. Romero to decide which is right.

Is it Sanders, the former Colorado football player who wants to break free from the $12 million judgment he owes John Darjean, a former security guard at his school in Dallas?

Or is it Darjean, who wants to collect every penny of that judgment after he said Sanders assaulted him and left him permanently injured in 2015?

“These cases are tough,” Judge Romero told the attorneys after their closing arguments Friday. “They’re very, very tough and very difficult, highly emotional.”

For Darjean, the case was also physically taxing. He collapsed in court after completing his testimony in the case Thursday and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. He was released later that day but did not return to court Friday because his attorney said he was “in bed.”

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