Overview
- Sanders’ attorney filed sealed motions to keep juvenile and other disciplinary records out of the bankruptcy trial, including references to his time at the Letot Juvenile Detention Facility in Dallas.
- These filings are motions in limine, which are pretrial requests that ask a judge to exclude evidence viewed as irrelevant or unfairly prejudicial.
- The case traces to a 2015 school confrontation in Texas with security guard John Darjean during a dispute over a phone.
- Darjean won an $11.89 million default judgment in 2022 after Sanders did not appear for trial, and Sanders filed Chapter 7 in 2023 seeking to wipe the debt while saying he acted in self-defense.
- A separate trustee lawsuit over about $250,000 in post‑petition name‑image‑likeness earnings is moving forward after Judge Michael Romero denied Sanders’ bid to dismiss, with transfers through entities Big 21 and Headache Gang under review.