Jurisprudence
David Mays, a former NFL backup quarterback who was indicted eight months ago for attempted murder, was charged in Cleveland after prosecutors unsealed the indictment.
Mays, a dentist from Shaker Heights, Ohio, who played for the Cleveland Browns in 1976 and ’77 and with the Buffalo Bills in 1978, is accused of trying to kill Kenneth Baiko, a dentist from Brecksville, Ohio, on May 10, 1990.
Baiko recently purchased Mays’ practice. Mays’ attorney, Terry Gilbert, said Baiko filed a civil suit in May alleging that Mays attacked him because he wanted to break the deal to buy Mays’ practice.
Baiko claimed Mays arranged an early morning meeting at the office to go over details of the transfer, then attacked him. Baiko charged that he was struck on the head with a blunt object, knocked to the floor and stabbed in the calf, knee and hand. He was ordered to lie on his stomach and was stabbed in the neck.
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