(AP) -- Former Iowa football player Cedric Everson will serve one week in jail for a 2007 assault on a female athlete that caused a scandal that reached the highest levels of the university.
District Judge Paul Miller ordered Everson on Friday to serve a sentence of 7 days in jail on a misdemeanor assault conviction.
A prosecutor had asked for the maximum sentence of 30 days.
Jurors convicted Everson of assault in January after finding him innocent of sexual abuse charges that could have brought lengthy prison terms.
Prosecutors contended Everson sexually assaulted a freshmen athlete who had been drinking heavily after his then-teammate Abe Satterfield did so first. Satterfield received a suspended sentence
on an assault charge after testifying at Everson's trial.
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