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Lewis avoids civil trial, reaches settlement

By The Associated Press
<p>Avoiding a civil trial scheduled to begin next month, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis has reached a financial settlement with the daughter of one of two men killed in a fight in Atlanta after the Super Bowl in January 2000.</p><p>Thomas Carlock, Lewis' Atlanta-based attorney, confirmed Sunday the agreement was reached Thursday.</p><p>"The parties reached an amicable resolution and the case will be dismissed," Carlock said, adding that both sides agreed no details would be released.</p><p>Carlock would not comment on a report in The (Baltimore) Sun that Lewis agreed to pay at least $1 million to settle the case.</p><p>The settlement compensates India Lollar, 4, the daughter of Kellye Smith, who was the fiancee of Richard Lollar, a barber stabbed to death outside a nightclub in the Buckhead district of Atlanta. India Lollar was born shortly after Richard Lollar's death.</p><p>Smith and India Lollar live in Atlanta. Carlock confirmed Lewis, 28, was in Atlanta for the settlement agreement Thursday.</p><p>Smith and Lollar originally sought $13 million in the suit.</p><p>The settlement, which followed three mediation sessions between the parties, pre-empted a potential civil trial scheduled to begin June 14.</p><p>Carlock said the suit against Lewis and co-defendants Reginald Oakley, Joseph Sweeting, Kwame King and Carlos Stafford will be dropped "soon."</p><p>A suit filed by the family of the other victim in the fight was settled previously. Terms were not disclosed.</p><p>Michael Weinstock, an attorney representing the Lollar family, told the Baltimore paper the case was "settled to the satisfaction of the parties."</p><p>Atlanta authorities charged Lewis with two counts of murder and four other felony counts in the Jan. 30, 2000, deaths of Lollar and Jacinth Baker. Co-defendants in the case were Oakley and Sweeting. King and Stafford were not charged.</p><p>All the felony counts were eventually dropped against Lewis, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor obstruction of justice charges and was sentenced to a year of probation. He testified against Oakley and Sweeting, who were found not guilty in June 2000. No one else was charged in the killings.</p>
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