(This story was originally published on usatoday.com .) Conor McGregor could face an upgraded felony charge of recklessness that increases the chance of his serving jail time and jeopardizes his ability to fight in the U.S. Or he could avoid any criminal charge with a good plea deal. That was the range of possibilities presented by three former New York prosecutors who are criminal defense attorneys and spoke to USA TODAY Sports about the UFC’s stars legal trouble. Julie Rendelman, a former prosecutor in Brooklyn, where McGregor was charged after attacking a bus at a UFC media event Thursday, noted that people sustained injuries during the incident. “That’s the bigger issue to me,’’ she said.
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