Jurisprudence

Former NBA player Lonnie Shelton was placed on one-year probation after he pleaded no contest in Bakersfield to petty theft but said he is “not by nature that kind of person.”

Shelton, who played 10 years in the NBA, was charged with selling an 18-year-old customer $300 worth of clothes for $140 without a receipt at a tall man’s store where Shelton worked as a clerk. The incident occurred on April 7.