Former NFL star Lawrence Taylor, a Hall of Famer who played for the New York Giants from 1981 to 1993, spent several hours in a Broward County jail this week after he was accused of failing to accurately file his current address as a registered sex offender.
Taylor, 65, was charged with one count of failure to comply with the sex offender registry law.
He is supposed to report address changes due to a plea agreement in a 2010 incident in which he had sex with a 16-year-old who he said claimed to be 19 years old. Taylor pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and sex with an underage prostitute, both misdemeanors, and was sentenced to six years’ probation.
The current charge is a third-degree felony punishable by a maximum of five years in prison.
Defense lawyer Mark Eiglarsh called his client’s recent failure to report a “significant misunderstanding” that should not require a prison term. “My client will be pleading not guilty,” Eiglarsh said. “As with the previous incident involving the same allegations [in 2022], Mr. Taylor did not knowingly commit any criminal offense.”
Taylor was released from the Broward jail overnight. A court date for the latest charge has not been set.
Rafael Olmeda can be reached at [email protected] or 954-356-4457.
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