Green Bay Packers running back Ahman Green served his wife with divorce papers Tuesday, less than a month after prosecutors cited a reconciled relationship as the reason for dropping domestic violence charges.
Green filed divorce papers and paid the $175 filing fee Tuesday in Brown County Circuit Court. Wisconsin law does not require the couple to cite reasons for the divorce in the filing.
Ahman Green was arrested April 25, 2005, at the Ledgeview home he shared with his wife, Heather. The couple had argued and Green slammed doors and argued with his wife before hanging up a call she made to 911, according to the criminal complaint filed in the case.
Green’s lawyers and prosecutors hammered out a carefully worded continuance agreement to help Green avoid sanctions from the National Football League. In August, Green signed the deal which included community service and called for Green to stay out of trouble for a year.
Ahman Green filed for divorce against his wife three days after the initial incident, but the divorce case was dismissed in December.
In February, Green’s lawyers said the continuance deal was off and asked to have the domestic violence case go to trial. On March 21, Brown County District Attorney John Zakowski dropped the misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge, citing Green’s reconciliation with his wife.
“Circumstances have changed since the original complaint was filed that brought us to the point that a jury would not convict if this case were to go to trial,” Zakowski said when the charge was dropped. “Given some of the conversations our office has had with the victim, we feel it is appropriate that we go in this direction. Now, given her posture, it would be unlikely that we could secure a conviction.”
Efforts to reach Zakowski for comment late Tuesday were unsuccessful. No hearing dates have been set for Green’s current divorce filing.
Green, 29, has been the Packers’ starting halfback since 2001, but was injured for much of the 2005 season. He recently signed an incentive-laden one-year, $1.75 million deal with the Packers for the 2006 season.
