Damon Evans' DUI case postponed

By Marcus K. Garner

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Damon Evans' DUI case has been postponed until the first week of December.

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Curtis Compton, ccompton@ajc.com Damon Evans addresses the media at the Rankin M. Smith, Sr. Student Athlete Academic Center in Athens on Thursday, July 1, 2010, as his wife, Kerrie Evans (center) looks on.

Curtis Compton, ccompton@ajc.com Georgia athletics director Damon Evans apologizes for making a 'grave, grave mistake' following his arrest.

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Evans' attorney and the solicitor prosecuting the case, Solicitor Raines Carter agreed to the delay, which was granted by Judge Calvin S. Graves.

Graves rescheduled the case for 3 p.m. Dec. 7. The former UGA athletics director did not attend Monday's court session.

Evans was arrested and charged with driving drunk on the night of June 30, just five minutes before his new contract with UGA was to go into effect, paying him more than half a million dollars a year.

According to police reports, a state trooper pulled Evans over for making an erratic turn on Roswell Road in Buckhead.

The trooper found Evans, who is married, in the car with a woman whose red panties were in his lap, according to the incident report.

Evans cried and pleaded with the trooper not to arrest him as he and the woman were taken to the Atlanta Municipal Jail.

Five days later, he resigned.