LSU's Jefferson charged with misdemeanor simple battery
LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson was formally charged with misdemeanor simple battery Wednesday afternoon by a grand jury, which lessened his original more serious felony charge of second degree battery.
Rickey Jefferson, an LSU football signee and younger brother of former LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson, has been charged with resisting an officer by violence after allegedly being involved in a fight with a Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputy Feb. 2 during a parade on Veterans Memorial Boulevard, court records show.