Idaho wide receiver Dezmon Epps won't face assault charges after accusations that he slapped his girlfriend in October.
“We cannot prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt,” Whitman County prosecutor Merritt Decker told the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, “So we declined to file charges at this time.”
Epps has been indefinitely suspended after the allegations surfaced. He was alleged to have struck his girlfriend in the face in an altercation on October 25. He was suspended the next day by coach Paul Petrino.
The Daily News had not received word if Idaho would reinstate Epps for the team's game Saturday at South Alabama. Idaho has three wins in 2015 and with two more wins could match the number of wins the team had from 2011-2014.
Epps has 61 catches for 762 yards and two touchdowns this season despite missing the team's game against USC after he was caught stealing items from the school bookstore. The bookstore theft was not his first offense at Idaho. He missed the 2014 season after he pled guilty to DUI. He had 79 catches for 980 yards in 2013.
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